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SriLankan says commercial flight, not chartered

19 Apr 2020

The SriLankan Airlines flight that transported Australians from Bangladesh back home was a commercial flight and not a chartered flight, SriLankan Airlines Chairman Ashok Pathirage asserted. Speaking to The Sunday Morning, Pathirage denied reports that it was a chartered flight that flew to Bangladesh. He went on to note that the flight did not return to Sri Lanka after picking up the Australian passengers. “It went directly to Australia. It did not come back to Sri Lanka from Bangladesh,” he said. Bangladeshi media on Thursday (16) reported that a SriLankan Airlines chartered flight had returned with some Bangladeshis who were in Sri Lanka and thereafter, transported a number of Australians from Dhaka to Australia. Some 30 Bangladeshis had returned home from Sri Lanka while 290 Australians were taken back home from Bangladesh on the SriLankan Airlines flight. – Skandha Gunasekara


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