Dubai-Sri Lanka travel: Airlines launch interline flights to over 30 destinations

Dubai-based carrier flydubai and SriLankan Airlines announced an interline agreement on Monday, September 9, commencing today itself.

The agreement will offer more travel opportunities to travellers between the UAE, Sri Lanka and on select routes offered by the two carriers.

Flydubai passengers will have access to 16 destinations on SriLankan’s network that spans across Southern and East Asia, the Middle East and Australia – including Melbourne, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.

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Additionally, passengers travelling with SriLankan Airlines will be able to travel to more than 30 destinations via Dubai, through flydubai. These include holiday spots like Bucharest, Krakow, Mombasa, Naples, Tashkent and Zanzibar that fall within flydubai's radar spanning across Africa, Central Asia, Central and Southeast Europe, as well as the Middle East.

With the new partnership, passengers will have the convenience of single-ticket itineraries, through-checked baggage and coordinated flight schedules.

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