Flights

Essential Information For Sri Lanka

A non-stop daily flight between London Heathrow and Colombo with SriLankan Airlines takes approximately 10 hours and 45 minutes outbound and 11 hours and 30 minutes inbound. There are several daily connections from Colombo to Malé (Maldives) each way and the flight takes one and a half hours.

Daily flights to Colombo and Malé with Emirates from Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle, with a change of aircraft in Dubai, take at least 12 hours outbound and 13 hours inbound, depending on the time and day of travel. Flights with Qatar Airways from Dublin, Edinburgh, London Gatwick, London Heathrow and Manchester, with a change of aircraft in Doha, take a similar time.

Various other airlines, including Oman Air, Etihad Airways, Turkish Airlines and Jet Airways, fly from London Heathrow and/or Manchester to Colombo.

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