{"id":752,"date":"2013-03-02T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=752"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:13:04","slug":"air-arabia-adds-second-sri-lanka-route-with-launch-of-mattala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/air-arabia-adds-second-sri-lanka-route-with-launch-of-mattala\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Arabia adds second Sri Lanka route with launch of Mattala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah, Mar 02nd, 2013 &#8211; Air Arabia \u00c2\u00a0announced\u00c2\u00a0today\u00c2\u00a0that it has added its second destination in Sri Lanka with the launch of non-stop flights to Mattala. The new route marks Air Arabia&#8217;s 84th destination worldwide. The inaugural flight G9508 will take off to Mattala Rajapakse International Airporton on March 18, 2013.<a href=\"http:\/\/dubai.travel-culture.com\/Sharjah\/\">Sharjah<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0International Airport at 21:30 and arrives Mattala Hambantota International Airport at 03:45. Return flights on the will depart next day from Mattala at 04:25 and arrive in Sharjah at 07:35 (local time).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adel Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer, Air Arabia, said: &#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement is a continuation of Air Arabia&#8217;s longstanding commitment to expand our presence in the Indian Subcontinent. Just a few months after our inception in 2003, we launched a direct service to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/srilanka.travel-culture.com\/colombo.shtml\" title=\"Colombo Travel\">Colombo<\/a>, which was our first destination in the Subcontinent, and we are delighted to now add a second route to the country. Our new service to Mattala is in direct response to passenger demand, and while contribute to the trade and tourism ties between\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dubai.travel-culture.com\">UAE and Sri Lanka<\/a>.&#8221; The launch of services to Mattala will complement Air Arabia&#8217;s existing nine weekly flights from Sharjah to Colombo. The airline currently offers daily flights to the capital city, and twice daily on Tuesdays and Fridays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah, Mar 02nd, 2013 &#8211; Air Arabia \u00c2\u00a0announced\u00c2\u00a0today\u00c2\u00a0that it has added its second destination in Sri Lanka with the launch of non-stop flights to Mattala. The new route marks Air Arabia&#8217;s 84th destination worldwide. The inaugural flight G9508 will take off to Mattala Rajapakse International Airporton on March 18, 2013.Sharjah\u00c2\u00a0International Airport at 21:30 and arrives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}