In mid-2012 SriLankan Airlines announced they would be joining the OneWorld alliance, with hopes of finalizing the arrangements by late 2013. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, though in October they announced a target join date of April. Then in January there was further confusion when SriLankan's PR team confirmed that they would be joining on March…
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Whats their FF pogram like ? Any sweet spots on their award chart ? Do they sell miles cheaply ?
What we need is a one world equivalent of lifemiles !!!
Slow day, Gary blogged about this earlier today..
@ Mike S. -- Award chart doesn't look especially lucrative to me, and unfortunately haven't seen any opportunities to buy their miles for cheap.
I flew shanghai Bangkok a few months ago in business, and was quite amused that the drink list said under champagne: "international brand".
I wonder if that brand could have been from France ?
Any other airlines have the same style as their new J? That looks pretty unique with the large ottomans like that. I don't think I have seen that before.
It would in theory be pretty roomy unless the bed is just not that long.
I think they recently announced that some of those China routes are going nonstop from Colombo, so fifth-freedom options to BKK are going to be fewer in the near future.
Any idea on how to book their flights using Avios? Is it possible to do that yet?
@ Diondi Tan -- Nope, they're not partners yet, and I wouldn't necessarily count on them becoming partners prior to the alliance join date.
PVG and PEK have already been zeroed out on Sabre - flights are gone. Only CAN and HKG will stay.
For everyone's information, The true SriLankan's New Business class product is a fully flat 80" seat. It is shown in the first picture as seen above. It is indeed very nice and I assure the their outstanding service will blow minds of those who try it.
And as for the second picture, as many of you might know about the BMI ( Brititsh Midland International ) airlines; and SriLankan purchased an A330 which is presently known as 4R-ALG of SriLankan airlines is operating the BMI business class, since SriLankan didn't change the business cabin.
So sir, as you see... The new business class product is rolled out in 7 long haul aircrafts ( 5 A330s and 2 A340s ) and the 4R-ALG ( A330 ) and the 4R-ADG ( A340 ) are having the BMI business class and the Cathay pacific first class and business class respectively. ( please note - The first class on the ADG is exclusive since srilankan doesn't operate first class service )
So I hope this was at least a small help to discard your suspicions on the SriLankan business class. 🙂
Oh! And btw, starting today (31st ) SriLankan will operate direct ( non-stop ) flights from Colombo to Beijing.