Guest reviews
Overall rating
7.7
Good
Based on 672 reviews
Boarding
7.6
Comfort
7.6
Crew
8.1
Entertainment
7.6
Food
7.6
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SriLankan information
| IATA code | UL |
|---|---|
| Routes | 75 |
| Top route | Colombo Bandaranaike Intl to Chennai |
| Airports served | 38 |
| Top airport | Colombo Bandaranaike Intl |
SriLankan traveller reviews
Pros
"The food was good."
(in 12 reviews)
"Business class makes all the difference."
(in 8 reviews)
"New aircraft from Cok - Colombo."
(in 6 reviews)
Cons
"Poor food service."
(in 7 reviews)
"Food menu need to update once in three months at least."
(in 4 reviews)
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food was good
food menu
services very good
entertainment system was good
good flight
good seats
class of service
comfortable flight
crew are very friendly
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4.0
Pros: Decent crew and food. Fairly punctual.
Cons: Check in was so slow. Slowest check in I’ve known.
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6.0
Pros: Boarding and landing
Cons: Food should be made With less spice more blend.
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3.0
Pros: Boarding
Cons: Foods were not good. Tray and seat was dirty. Sri Lanka should put in International passengers to good hotel and not shady slum hotel.
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7.6
Pros: Excellent flight apart from the delay!
Cons: Leave on time!
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8.0
Pros: Flight attendant were amazing. My wife was not well and we ask for blanket. Cabin crew provided us with one.
Cons: In flight food selection should have some variety for three hours flight. Should significantly improve Sri Lanka Lounge as the place was not the neat and clean, as it was run by one staff alone. Food in the lounge were sitting for hours and not freshly made.
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4.3
Pros: Planes and entertainment was amazing. Flight crew very good and friendly.
Cons: The ground staff at Amsterdam were very poor and not well organized to handle issues. Some individuals were very rude and unhelpful
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6.6
Pros: The seats and Inflight entertainment was excellent.
Cons: Crew ran out of food choices despite the fact that I was seated near the front of the aircraft. Crew came out for the first service and didn’t serve again for the rest of the flight.
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10.0
Cons: Good
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4.6
Cons: Plane was too cold. Asked staff to adjust but still to cold.
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6.6
Pros: Had more room than on BA flight to London
Cons: Poor selection of entertainment. Some features, such as the flight tracker, didn’t work
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4.6
Pros: Short flight
Cons: Coffee wasnt an option! The staff looked tired and bored.
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8.0
Cons: The airplane is old!
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9.3
Pros: Very friendly and attentive crew. Good entertainment options.
Cons: Business class seat is OK, not great - fine for 3.5 hour flight
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6.6
Pros: Not bad comparatively morning flt kolkata to cmb.crew is good.clean
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9.0
Pros: In economy class good enough leg space when compared to other airlines.
Cons: Head phones connections does not work most of the time.
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9.0
Pros: The staff was very helpings .
Cons: The way they are Waigh the luggage was like weighing gold.
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10.0
Disappointed at first
Pros: Crew is amazing with a smile always. It was a new aircraft with nice screens and a good variety of movie selections. Service was excellent as well as the food.
Cons: I was denied checking in a the counter. I bought the ticket with a friends credit card and they needed to have the actual card to swipe and then only they get access to my booking. It is company policy but it is not stated when you are making the purchase the airlines website. It says so on the bottom of the ticket on the page long rules in small print. And in all honesty who reads all of that these days. The ground crew were nice enough to take me to the airlines office at the airport and figure out a solution. It took an hour and a half to sort it out and get a verification from headquarters office in Srilanka.
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8.0
Good flight.
Pros: Inflight Entertainment and seats.
Cons: None
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8.0
Pros: Good seats with leg room.
Cons: None
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10.0
Pros: Flight Crew was excellent
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10.0
Just perfect
Pros: Super on time
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8.6
Sri Lankan hospitality
Pros: It was all positives from the time we check in until we arrived in Kindon.
Cons: They distributed the UK landing card long after meals served and most passengers were a sleep. It would be good if they could distribute the UK landing cards straight after or before the meals.
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10.0
Good flight.
Pros: Plenty of leg room.
Cons: NA
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10.0
Good connections.
Pros: Fast and efficient.
Cons: NA
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5.3
Pros: Enjoyed the tasty food.
Cons: gaps between seats were unbearable and have to think twice whether to travel again UL 208.
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8.6
Pros: Crew was that much friendly.
Cons: Not mine type food (just a suggestion please to have sri lankan varities)
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10.0
One of the best
Pros: Check in process was smooth, crew amazing, food excellent and in flight entertainment exciting.
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10.0
Fantastic
Pros: Behavior of crew and food. The service was excellent. The flight was clean.
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8.0
Very good smothly went
Pros: All crews they are helpfull
Cons: Food same going and coming times
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10.0
Pros: Good
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10.0
Pros: Good
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9.0
Amazing hospitality
Pros: Very prompt service and amazing hospitality. Despite the numerous times I called them for service, the staff were always polite and served me with a smile. Overwhelming hospitality really!
Cons: None
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9.3
Great flight and service
Pros: Flew a few times with UL mainly as it's part of One World and being a QR member I get additional miles and point and travel in business at affordable prices compared to QR extremely high price.
Cons: Need more movie options. Presently 95% movies are one or more year old.
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6.6
Great crew - small seats!
Pros: Food was good, boarding efficient. Crew managed other passengers so there wasn't crazy baggage issues. Crew was friendly and very helpful.
Cons: Seat was crazy small! Couldn't even cross my legs.
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10.0
Cons: Nothing
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9.6
Pros: overall
Cons: seats are small but otherwise it is 5 star airline. love Srilankan.
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8.0
Pros: Friendly service.
Cons: Boarding process could improve
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10.0
Pros: Good value
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7.6
Good service
Pros: The crew were lovely. Great service from crew and good food.
Cons: The head rests were very uncomfortable pushing your head forward. Plane was overbooked so my family couldn’t even sit together.
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2.0
Cons: Srilankan airlines did not allow me to board my flight and had the least helpful customer support reps.
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9.3
Pros: I have found Sri Lankan staff to be most friendly and accommodative.
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3.0
Very disorganized boarding Poor customer service
Cons: Unfriendly ambiance. Disorganized boarding. I’m even a member of Fly Smiles. The flight attendant named Chanaka moved 2 old passengers on my side. I kindly requested to another staff if I can just move seat too because I am not comfortable. But request no action. The cabin crew are not that caring because I took care of the 2 passengers. I just don’t understand why they are unfriendly. I will not choose this airlines again.
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7.3
Cons: Airport (Guangzhou) very confusing...not fault of airlines; whoever designed the airport in GZ should go back to school Flight delayed 45 minutes
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2.3
First & last flight with this airline
Pros: Uniform of the crew is nice.
Cons: The service specifically the transfer service. They weren’t helpful at all. I’m so turned off how the staff treated me. It is also not clear that I need to book a hotel thru the airline during my 13 hours transit. I was thrown back & forth like a ball. No help was done. How come an airline imposed such rule?! Worse part during flight I feel cold & asked for a blanket. We reached destination No blanket ever!! Not recommended. First & last!!!
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8.0
Good experience , only connectivity poor
Pros: Food , cleaning,
Cons: Connectivity as we have to wait 7!hours @ Colombo airport
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6.3
Safety Not The Most Important
Cons: Before engines shut down and fasten seat belt sign off people were removing bags from the overhead. Passengers were not required/forced to stow bags overhead, blocking egress from window seats.
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9.3
Pros: The service and crew were excellent!
Cons: The seats weren’t very comfortable but overall the plane was very clean and again the service was impeccable.
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4.6
Good plane crew, HORRIBLE airport staff.
Pros: Really good food the and crew on the plane was nice.
Cons: In the Delhi airport we never interacted with anyone from Sri Lankan Airlines because a third party was contracted to work the counters, check us in, issue boarding passes, etc... These workers were all maybe 20 years old and possessed what seemed like zero training to do their job at all. They never had any answers and just smiled while saying “I don’t know” a million times. We were corralled and moved and waited hours while they ran around doing nothing.
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5.6
Pros: Crew was very nice
Cons: Food was with a lot of chilli and very spicy
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7.0
Cons: Flight was late and because of that we missed adelaide flight
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8.6
Pros: Friendly crew and great food
Cons: Delay to take off
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2.0
Should never fly Air India
Cons: Manner of Airport staff is very irritating. They consider passangers as their enemies and behave accordingly.
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8.0
Not quite Sri lankan hospitality
Pros: Acceptable but not exceptional as expected
Cons: Unfortunately the it was a bumpy ride as most of the time the seat belt sign was on and crew had to discontinue services for a while. This was beyond airlines control. The crew did not distribute the Sri lankan landing cards onboard. This caused some confusions for first time travellers as they had to cone off the immigration queue and went to pick the card up and to complete. Some foreigners were unhappy about it.
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3.6
Do the hostess knew how to smile?
Pros: Nothing
Cons: The service. The worst I have seen.
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6.0
Pros: Good service
Cons: Not enough leg space, cramped seats
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10.0
Pros: Perfect
Cons: Nothing
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10.0
Pros: Also perfect
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4.0
Pros: Flight was delayed for 2 hours
Cons: Flight was delayed for 2 hours.
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7.3
Pros: The cabin crew were friendly and attentive, I was quite impressed with the food, and they served a good white wine. I was happy to find an excellent choice of movies, tv shows and music with a simple, intuitive system for playing them.
Cons: There were problems in the bathroom. All the paper towels were in a heap on the floor, and the sink was blocked. I told the stewardess, and she just shrugged. Obviously there are no bathroom checks on Srilankan Airlines and I don’t think that’s good enough.
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3.3
Pros: food
Cons: excpt food anything not good and baggage checker give trouble alot
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10.0
Cons: Good
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9.3
Pros: Very friendly and attentive crew. Good entertainment options.
Cons: Business class seat is OK, not great - fine for 3.5 hour flight
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9.0
Pros: In economy class good enough leg space when compared to other airlines.
Cons: Head phones connections does not work most of the time.
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9.0
Pros: The staff was very helpings .
Cons: The way they are Waigh the luggage was like weighing gold.
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10.0
Disappointed at first
Pros: Crew is amazing with a smile always. It was a new aircraft with nice screens and a good variety of movie selections. Service was excellent as well as the food.
Cons: I was denied checking in a the counter. I bought the ticket with a friends credit card and they needed to have the actual card to swipe and then only they get access to my booking. It is company policy but it is not stated when you are making the purchase the airlines website. It says so on the bottom of the ticket on the page long rules in small print. And in all honesty who reads all of that these days. The ground crew were nice enough to take me to the airlines office at the airport and figure out a solution. It took an hour and a half to sort it out and get a verification from headquarters office in Srilanka.
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10.0
Pros: Flight Crew was excellent
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10.0
Just perfect
Pros: Super on time
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8.6
Sri Lankan hospitality
Pros: It was all positives from the time we check in until we arrived in Kindon.
Cons: They distributed the UK landing card long after meals served and most passengers were a sleep. It would be good if they could distribute the UK landing cards straight after or before the meals.
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10.0
Good flight.
Pros: Plenty of leg room.
Cons: NA
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10.0
Good connections.
Pros: Fast and efficient.
Cons: NA
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8.6
Pros: Crew was that much friendly.
Cons: Not mine type food (just a suggestion please to have sri lankan varities)
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10.0
One of the best
Pros: Check in process was smooth, crew amazing, food excellent and in flight entertainment exciting.
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10.0
Fantastic
Pros: Behavior of crew and food. The service was excellent. The flight was clean.
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10.0
Pros: Good
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10.0
Pros: Good
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9.0
Amazing hospitality
Pros: Very prompt service and amazing hospitality. Despite the numerous times I called them for service, the staff were always polite and served me with a smile. Overwhelming hospitality really!
Cons: None
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9.3
Great flight and service
Pros: Flew a few times with UL mainly as it's part of One World and being a QR member I get additional miles and point and travel in business at affordable prices compared to QR extremely high price.
Cons: Need more movie options. Presently 95% movies are one or more year old.
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10.0
Cons: Nothing
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9.6
Pros: overall
Cons: seats are small but otherwise it is 5 star airline. love Srilankan.
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10.0
Pros: Good value
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9.3
Pros: I have found Sri Lankan staff to be most friendly and accommodative.
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9.3
Pros: The service and crew were excellent!
Cons: The seats weren’t very comfortable but overall the plane was very clean and again the service was impeccable.
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8.6
Pros: Friendly crew and great food
Cons: Delay to take off
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10.0
Pros: Perfect
Cons: Nothing
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10.0
Pros: Also perfect
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7.6
Pros: Excellent flight apart from the delay!
Cons: Leave on time!
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8.0
Pros: Flight attendant were amazing. My wife was not well and we ask for blanket. Cabin crew provided us with one.
Cons: In flight food selection should have some variety for three hours flight. Should significantly improve Sri Lanka Lounge as the place was not the neat and clean, as it was run by one staff alone. Food in the lounge were sitting for hours and not freshly made.
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6.6
Pros: The seats and Inflight entertainment was excellent.
Cons: Crew ran out of food choices despite the fact that I was seated near the front of the aircraft. Crew came out for the first service and didn’t serve again for the rest of the flight.
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6.6
Pros: Had more room than on BA flight to London
Cons: Poor selection of entertainment. Some features, such as the flight tracker, didn’t work
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8.0
Cons: The airplane is old!
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6.6
Pros: Not bad comparatively morning flt kolkata to cmb.crew is good.clean
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8.0
Good flight.
Pros: Inflight Entertainment and seats.
Cons: None
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8.0
Pros: Good seats with leg room.
Cons: None
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8.0
Very good smothly went
Pros: All crews they are helpfull
Cons: Food same going and coming times
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6.6
Great crew - small seats!
Pros: Food was good, boarding efficient. Crew managed other passengers so there wasn't crazy baggage issues. Crew was friendly and very helpful.
Cons: Seat was crazy small! Couldn't even cross my legs.
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8.0
Pros: Friendly service.
Cons: Boarding process could improve
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7.6
Good service
Pros: The crew were lovely. Great service from crew and good food.
Cons: The head rests were very uncomfortable pushing your head forward. Plane was overbooked so my family couldn’t even sit together.
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7.3
Cons: Airport (Guangzhou) very confusing...not fault of airlines; whoever designed the airport in GZ should go back to school Flight delayed 45 minutes
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8.0
Good experience , only connectivity poor
Pros: Food , cleaning,
Cons: Connectivity as we have to wait 7!hours @ Colombo airport
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7.0
Cons: Flight was late and because of that we missed adelaide flight
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8.0
Not quite Sri lankan hospitality
Pros: Acceptable but not exceptional as expected
Cons: Unfortunately the it was a bumpy ride as most of the time the seat belt sign was on and crew had to discontinue services for a while. This was beyond airlines control. The crew did not distribute the Sri lankan landing cards onboard. This caused some confusions for first time travellers as they had to cone off the immigration queue and went to pick the card up and to complete. Some foreigners were unhappy about it.
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7.3
Pros: The cabin crew were friendly and attentive, I was quite impressed with the food, and they served a good white wine. I was happy to find an excellent choice of movies, tv shows and music with a simple, intuitive system for playing them.
Cons: There were problems in the bathroom. All the paper towels were in a heap on the floor, and the sink was blocked. I told the stewardess, and she just shrugged. Obviously there are no bathroom checks on Srilankan Airlines and I don’t think that’s good enough.
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4.0
Pros: Decent crew and food. Fairly punctual.
Cons: Check in was so slow. Slowest check in I’ve known.
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6.0
Pros: Boarding and landing
Cons: Food should be made With less spice more blend.
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3.0
Pros: Boarding
Cons: Foods were not good. Tray and seat was dirty. Sri Lanka should put in International passengers to good hotel and not shady slum hotel.
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4.3
Pros: Planes and entertainment was amazing. Flight crew very good and friendly.
Cons: The ground staff at Amsterdam were very poor and not well organized to handle issues. Some individuals were very rude and unhelpful
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4.6
Cons: Plane was too cold. Asked staff to adjust but still to cold.
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4.6
Pros: Short flight
Cons: Coffee wasnt an option! The staff looked tired and bored.
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5.3
Pros: Enjoyed the tasty food.
Cons: gaps between seats were unbearable and have to think twice whether to travel again UL 208.
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2.0
Cons: Srilankan airlines did not allow me to board my flight and had the least helpful customer support reps.
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3.0
Very disorganized boarding Poor customer service
Cons: Unfriendly ambiance. Disorganized boarding. I’m even a member of Fly Smiles. The flight attendant named Chanaka moved 2 old passengers on my side. I kindly requested to another staff if I can just move seat too because I am not comfortable. But request no action. The cabin crew are not that caring because I took care of the 2 passengers. I just don’t understand why they are unfriendly. I will not choose this airlines again.
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2.3
First & last flight with this airline
Pros: Uniform of the crew is nice.
Cons: The service specifically the transfer service. They weren’t helpful at all. I’m so turned off how the staff treated me. It is also not clear that I need to book a hotel thru the airline during my 13 hours transit. I was thrown back & forth like a ball. No help was done. How come an airline imposed such rule?! Worse part during flight I feel cold & asked for a blanket. We reached destination No blanket ever!! Not recommended. First & last!!!
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6.3
Safety Not The Most Important
Cons: Before engines shut down and fasten seat belt sign off people were removing bags from the overhead. Passengers were not required/forced to stow bags overhead, blocking egress from window seats.
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4.6
Good plane crew, HORRIBLE airport staff.
Pros: Really good food the and crew on the plane was nice.
Cons: In the Delhi airport we never interacted with anyone from Sri Lankan Airlines because a third party was contracted to work the counters, check us in, issue boarding passes, etc... These workers were all maybe 20 years old and possessed what seemed like zero training to do their job at all. They never had any answers and just smiled while saying “I don’t know” a million times. We were corralled and moved and waited hours while they ran around doing nothing.
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5.6
Pros: Crew was very nice
Cons: Food was with a lot of chilli and very spicy
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2.0
Should never fly Air India
Cons: Manner of Airport staff is very irritating. They consider passangers as their enemies and behave accordingly.
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3.6
Do the hostess knew how to smile?
Pros: Nothing
Cons: The service. The worst I have seen.
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6.0
Pros: Good service
Cons: Not enough leg space, cramped seats
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4.0
Pros: Flight was delayed for 2 hours
Cons: Flight was delayed for 2 hours.
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3.3
Pros: food
Cons: excpt food anything not good and baggage checker give trouble alot
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Flight status
SriLankan route map
Popular flight routes
Flight
Origin
Destination
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
5005
Colombo
CMB
Sigiriya
GIU
5006
Sigiriya
GIU
Colombo
CMB
5005
Sigiriya
GIU
Trincomalee
TRR
5006
Trincomalee
TRR
Sigiriya
GIU
8016
Colombo
CMB
Colombo
DWO
5016
Colombo
DWO
Colombo
CMB
8016
Colombo
DWO
Hatton
NUF
8016
Hambantota
HRI
Koggala
KCT
8016
Hatton
NUF
Hambantota
HRI
503
Colombo
CMB
London
LHR
504
London
LHR
Colombo
CMB
604
Colombo
CMB
Melbourne
MEL
605
Melbourne
MEL
Colombo
CMB
707
Colombo
CMB
Pointe La Rue
SEZ
708
Pointe La Rue
SEZ
Colombo
CMB
7006
Hambantota
HRI
Colombo
CMB
125
Colombo
CMB
Chennai
MAA
126
Chennai
MAA
Colombo
CMB
318
Colombo
CMB
Kuala Lumpur
KUL
319
Kuala Lumpur
KUL
Colombo
CMB
365
Jakarta
CGK
Colombo
CMB
364
Colombo
CMB
Jakarta
CGK
202
Manama
BAH
Colombo
CMB
201
Colombo
CMB
Manama
BAH
308
Colombo
CMB
Singapore
SIN
309
Singapore
SIN
Colombo
CMB
265
Colombo
CMB
Riyadh
RUH
266
Riyadh
RUH
Colombo
CMB
195
Colombo
CMB
New Delhi
DEL
196
New Delhi
DEL
Colombo
CMB
403
Bangkok
BKK
Colombo
CMB
402
Colombo
CMB
Bangkok
BKK
142
Mumbai
BOM
Colombo
CMB
133
Colombo
CMB
Tiruchirappalli
TRZ
174
Bengaluru
BLR
Colombo
CMB
173
Colombo
CMB
Bengaluru
BLR
221
Colombo
CMB
Doha
DOH
222
Doha
DOH
Colombo
CMB
141
Colombo
CMB
Mumbai
BOM
177
Colombo
CMB
Hyderabad
HYD
178
Hyderabad
HYD
Colombo
CMB
134
Tiruchirappalli
TRZ
Colombo
CMB
103
Colombo
CMB
Malé
MLE
104
Malé
MLE
Colombo
CMB
263
Colombo
CMB
Dammam
DMM
264
Dammam
DMM
Colombo
CMB
281
Colombo
CMB
Jeddah
JED
282
Jeddah
JED
Colombo
CMB
225
Colombo
CMB
Dubai
DXB
229
Colombo
CMB
Kuwait City
KWI
205
Colombo
CMB
Muscat
MCT
226
Dubai
DXB
Colombo
CMB
230
Kuwait City
KWI
Colombo
CMB
206
Muscat
MCT
Colombo
CMB
208
Abu Dhabi
AUH
Colombo
CMB
207
Colombo
CMB
Abu Dhabi
AUH
161
Colombo
CMB
Thiruvananthapuram
TRV
162
Thiruvananthapuram
TRV
Colombo
CMB
885
Guangzhou
CAN
Colombo
CMB
869
Beijing
PEK
Colombo
CMB
884
Colombo
CMB
Guangzhou
CAN
165
Colombo
CMB
Kochi
COK
166
Kochi
COK
Colombo
CMB
183
Colombo
CMB
Karachi
KHI
868
Colombo
CMB
Beijing
PEK
184
Karachi
KHI
Colombo
CMB
455
Tokyo
NRT
Colombo
CMB
454
Colombo
CMB
Tokyo
NRT
194
Coimbatore
CJB
Colombo
CMB
193
Colombo
CMB
Coimbatore
CJB
189
Colombo
CMB
Dhaka
DAC
190
Dhaka
DAC
Colombo
CMB
188
Kolkata
CCU
Colombo
CMB
187
Colombo
CMB
Kolkata
CCU
139
Colombo
CMB
Madurai
IXM
140
Madurai
IXM
Colombo
CMB
Top flight routes
Top airports served by SriLankan
- Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport (CMB)
- Chennai Airport (MAA)
- Male Airport (MLE)
- Singapore Changi Airport (SIN)
- Bangkok Suvarnabhumi & other airports Airport (BKK)
- New Delhi Indira Gandhi Intl Airport (DEL)
- Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport (BOM)
- Bengaluru Intl Airport (BLR)
- Kuala Lumpur Intl Airport (KUL)
- Tiruchirappalli Civil Airport (TRZ)
- London Heathrow Airport (LHR)
- Melbourne & other airports Airport (MEL)
- Doha Hamad Intl Airport (DOH)
- Dubai Intl Airport (DXB)
- Manama Bahrain Intl Airport (BAH)
SriLankan contact information
- UL IATA code
- +6531580580 Call
- srilankan.com Visit
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