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Colombo, August 26. 2016: SriLankan Airlines wishes to advise its valued customers of changes to its schedule over a three-month period commencing from 06^th January 2017 to 06^th April 2017, due to the closure of Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport from 0830 hours to 1630 hours each day for maintenance work on the runway.

The following flights have been cancelled. However, SriLankan will continue to serve each of these destinations through its flights at other times of the day:

UL308 Colombo-Singapore and UL 309 Singapore-Colombo
UL127 Colombo-Chennai and UL122 Chennai-Colombo
UL133 Colombo-Trichy and UL132 Trichy-Colombo
UL115 Colombo-Male and UL102 Male-Colombo
UL167 Colombo-Cochin and UL166 Cochin-Colombo
UL173 Colombo-Bangalore and UL174 Bangalore-Colombo

The following flights have been shifted to alternate times of the day:

UL868 Colombo-Beijing.
UL866 Colombo-Shanghai.
UL402 Colombo-Bangkok and UL403 Bangkok-Colombo
UL318 Colombo-Kuala Lumpur and UL319 Kuala Lumpur-Colombo
UL306 Colombo-Singapore and UL307 Singapore-Colombo
UL161 Colombo-Trivandrum and UL162 Trivandrum -Colombo
UL195 Colombo-New Delhi and UL196 New Delhi-Colombo
UL183 Colombo-Karachi and UL184 Karachi-Colombo
UL503 Colombo-London and UL504 London-Colombo (From 05^th January UL 504 will operate as London-Malé -Colombo)
UL281 Colombo-Jeddah and UL282 Jeddah-Colombo

Passengers who have already booked tickets on any of the above flights should contact their travel agent or the nearest SriLankan Airlines ticket office for details on revised times and/or alternative routings.

SriLankan Airlines regrets any inconvenience to its passengers caused due to these arrangements that have been made under unavoidable circumstances. The closure of BIA affects flights of all airlines that operate to BIA during the scheduled time of maintenance work. The airline is not the operator of the airport and has no control over the scheduled maintenance works.

Affected Route	Flight No.	Existing Schedule	Proposed Schedule
CMB/PEK – VV	UL 868/9	CMB DEP 1335L PEK ARR/DEP 2305L/0020L CMB ARR 0540L	CMB DEP 0800L PEK ARR/DEP 1730L/0020L CMB ARR 0545L
CMB/PVG – VV	UL 866/7	CMB DEP 1330L PVG ARR/DEP 2230L/0020L CMB ARR 0535L	CMB DEP 0800L PVG ARR/DEP 1655L/0020L CMB ARR 0545L
CMB/BKK – VV	UL 402/3	CMB DEP 0140L BKK ARR/DEP 0635L/0900L CMB ARR 1055L	CMB DEP 2330L BKK ARR/DEP 0425L/0525L CMB ARR 0720L
CMB/KUL – VV	UL 318/9	CMB DEP 0040L KUL ARR/DEP 0655L/0850L CMB ARR 0945L	CMB DEP 2330L KUL ARR/DEP 0545L/0645L CMB ARR 0745L
CMB/SIN – VV	UL 306/7	CMB DEP 0100L SIN ARR/DEP 0730/0945L CMB ARR 1105L	CMB DEP 1945L SIN ARR/DEP 0215L/0335L CMB ARR 0455L
CMB/TRV – VV	UL 161/2	CMB DEP 0745L TRV ARR/DEP 0845/0945L CMB ARR 1045L	CMB DEP 1905L TRV ARR/DEP 2000/2100L CMB ARR 2200L
CMB/DEL – VV	UL 195/6	CMB DEP 1400L DEL ARR/DEP 1735/1835L CMB ARR 2210L	CMB DEP 0815L DEL ARR/DEP 1150/1345L CMB ARR 1720L
CMB/KHI – VV	UL 183/4	CMB DEP 1325L KHI ARR/DEP 1620/1720L CMB ARR 2105L	CMB DEP 1925L KHI ARR/DEP 2220/0120L CMB ARR 0510L
CMB/LHR – VV	UL 503/4	CMB DEP 1250L LHR ARR/DEP 1910/2040L CMB ARR 1240L	CMB DEP 0820L LHR ARR/DEP 1440L/2210L MLE ARR/DEP 1330L/1440L CMB ARR 1635L
CMB/JED - VV	UL 281/2	CMB DEP 1445L JED ARR/DEP 1845/2000L CMB ARR 0425L	CMB DEP 1630L JED ARR/DEP 2030/2200L CMB ARR 0625L