ICAO aprroves new air routes to Mattala [October 23 2010]

Shirajiv Sirimane

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has approved several air routes and destinations for the proposed Hambantota international airport (HIA) at Mattala that is scheduled to be opened end of 2012.

These destinations and routes include, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, China, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, Singapore, Diego Garcia, Korea, UAE, Maldives, France and Bangkok.

Chairman Airport Aviation, Prasanna Wickramasuriya said that under the first stage they are anticipatin