Emirates yesterday announced the resumption of its Colombo-Male service starting 1 September.
The daily service between the two cities will be an extension of its Dubai-Male flight EK652 to Colombo, with the return flight EK653 operating from Colombo to Dubai via Male. Emirates flight EK652 will depart Dubai at 09:45 daily, arrive in Male at 15:00 and depart the Maldivian capital at 16:35 for Colombo, arriving in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital at 18:30. The return flight EK653 will depart Colombo at 20:35, arrive in Male at 21:35 and depart for Dubai at 23:00 to arrive at Emirates’ home base at 02:00 the following day, local time. The airline will operate all flights utilising its wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft in three-class configuration.
By mid-October, Emirates will also increase its services between Male and Dubai to four daily flights.
Emirates has been gradually rebuilding its global network, in a safe and sustainable manner and has resumed passenger services to over 120 passenger destinations, allowing travellers to conveniently connect to the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific via Dubai.
A longstanding contributor to the growth of tourism and the export industries of the two countries, Emirates has operated flights to Sri Lanka and the Maldives for 35 and 34 years respectively, and has also played a key role in the transport of vaccines and other essentials needed to combat the spread of the pandemic in the region.
(FT)