{"id":63427,"date":"2024-12-31T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=63427"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:48:56","slug":"emirates-introduces-additional-flights-to-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/emirates-introduces-additional-flights-to-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Introduces Additional Flights To Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Emirates airline will operate an additional scheduled service between Colombo and <a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a>, starting from 2nd January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The newly-introduced flight, to operate as EK654\/655, increases the seat capacity on the route by 30 percent and supports Sri Lanka\u2019s plans to considerably increase tourist arrivals in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The additional service will operate six times a week until 31st March 2025, with EK654 departing Dubai International Airport (DXB) every day except Wednesdays. From 1st April 2025, a seventh weekly flight will be added on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The additional flight can accommodate up to 360 passengers, with eight suites in First Class, 42 Business Class and 310 Economy Class seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Emirates began operations to Sri Lanka in April 1986 and has carried more than 12 million passengers to and from Colombo since operations began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates airline will operate an additional scheduled service between Colombo and Dubai, starting from 2nd January 2025. The newly-introduced flight, to operate as EK654\/655, increases the seat capacity on the route by 30 percent and supports Sri Lanka\u2019s plans to considerably increase tourist arrivals in 2025. The additional service will operate six times a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63429,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63427\/revisions\/63429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}