Sri Lanka’s oldest airport sees first worldwide flight in 54 years

A flight from the Maldives landed on the Ratmalana International Airport in Colombo for the primary time in 54 years.

Sri Lanka airport (Photo: Twitter@CIAR_SriLanka)

Sri Lanka’s oldest and first worldwide airport was relaunched on Sunday with its first worldwide flight touchdown in 54 years, aviation officers mentioned.

A flight from the Maldives landed on the Ratmalana International Airport in Colombo.

The 50-seater Maldivian flight would function three flights per week to Colombo which might be later expanded to 5 per weeks, the aviation officers mentioned.

The Ratmalana airport was was a home airport after the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake was commissioned within the late 60s.

The Bandaranaike airport is the principle worldwide airport for flights to and from the Sri Lankan capital.

Established in 1938, the Ratmalana airport is Sri Lanka’s oldest airport and at one level was the one worldwide airport within the nation.