In mid-2012SriLankan Airlines announced they would be joining the oneworld alliance, with hopes of finalizing the arrangements by late 2013. Unfortunately that didnt happen, though last October theyannounced a target join date of April. Then in January there was further confusion whenSriLankan’s PR team confirmed that they would be joining on March 1, which wasn’t…
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Their routes do show up on the One World Interactive Route Map now. http://onw.innosked.com/
@ Scott -- In terms of "true" longhaul destinations, they fly to London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Moscow, off the top of my head.
I had a great flight on Sri Lankan last year from KUL-CMB. Yes, I'll admit that my very favorable feelings towards them come from a free upgrade that happened to be on my birthday (though I think it's because I was last to buy my ticket (<2 days prior) and didn't have a seat assignment.) I would easily pay for their short haul business class again. New, good food, decent IFE.
"The largest international airline serving the Maldives"? Am I missing something?
@ JL -- I believe they say "leading" and not "largest." Which I guess everyone can interpret the way they'd like to. 😉
@ Lucky - the graphic says "the largest"... Not sure how that's possible since CX has a lot more planes and destinations.
In the banner image in your post above (first image in the post) it definitely says largest.