Air Seychelles begins twice weekly flights to Colombo

The inaugural flight of Air Seychelles’ twice-weekly service to Colombo arrived in early hours of Wednesday, a significant development being the first new carrier to launch in Sri Lanka post-pandemic.

The four-hour flight from the airline’s home base Mahe, Seychelles is every Tuesdays and Saturdays and departure from Colombo is every Wednesdays and Sundays from 07:35 hours.

The flights will be served by the airline’s Airbus A320 Neo aircraft in a 12 business class and 156 economy class configuration.

The Seychelles national carrier has been flying for over 45 years. Wholly owned by the Government of Seychelles, the carrier operates regionally from its home in Mahe to Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Mauritius with state of the art Airbus A320neo’s. Domestically the carrier operates up to 30 roundtrips a day to Praslin, the second largest island in the archipelago, along with various charters to other islands on its twin-otter fleet.

In 2022, Air Seychelles managed to retain the most coveted title of ‘Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline’ at the 29th edition of the World Travel Awards as well as, ‘Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline Business Class’, ‘Indian Ocean’s Leading Cabin Crew’ and ‘Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline Lounge’.