Call for Madurai-Colombo flights

The members of the Travel Club of Madurai met Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne and called upon him to commence Madurai-Colombo flights on their national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines.

The Travel Club members, led by their president B S G Mustafa met Minister Jayaratne in Colombo and presented a petition in this regard.

The delegation elaborated the market potential for international flights in the Madurai-Colombo sector given the fact that a large number of passengers are from the nine southern districts of Tamil Nadu.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Jayaratne had said that Mihin Lanka was likely to commence flights to Madurai in the winter schedule this year, said past president of the Travel Club, G. Vasudevan a member of the delegation.

-TOI