An Azur Air flight came to the Bandaranaike International Airport<\/a><\/strong> here with 335 passengers onboard, according to media reports.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Aeroflot |Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n “IMPORTANT: Russian president Vladimir #Putin ordered the Government of Russia to raise the number of flights between #Russia and friendly states!@LKARSGOV,” the Russian Embassy in Colombo told in a tweet on Thursday. Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister Harin Fernando stated on Twitter that Switzerland’s national airline, Swiss International Air Lines<\/strong>, is scheduled to restart operations in Sri Lanka with weekly flights beginning from November 10. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Last month, Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot restarted commercial operations in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/strong>, more than 4 months after the airline suspended its flights to the island nation after authorities here briefly detained an aircraft over a legal dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Aeroflot suspended flights service between Moscow & Colombo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
On June 2, an Aeroflot flight Airbus AU 289 scheduled to depart from Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport to Moscow<\/strong> with 191 passengers and 13 crew members, was grounded, as the owner of the aircraft — Celestial Aviation of Ireland. had filed a case against the airline over a pending arbitration on the lease of the aircraft in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the dispute, Aeroflot suspended its operations between Moscow and Colombo on June 4.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In protest against the grounding of the flight, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Sri Lankan envoy in Moscow to express its dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia remains Sri Lanka’s third-largest tourism source market year-to-date with some 51,300 arrivals, behind India and UK. Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis since its independence from Britain in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aeroflot | Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The economic crisis has led to an acute lack of foreign exchange reserves, forcing Sri Lankans for months to wait in lines lasting hours outside stores to buy fuel and cooking gas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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