SriLankan expands route map with Qatar Airways

Passengers offered connections to multiple global destinations via Doha


SriLankan Airlines has expanded its codeshare partnership with Qatar Airways, offering passengers a series of new one-stop connections from Colombo to destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America.

Both airlines will codeshare on each other’s flights between Colombo and Doha, including Qatar Airways’ three daily services and SriLankan’s daily flight.

And SriLankan’s passengers can now transit through Doha’s Hamad International Airport to 20 onward destinations, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris, Copenhagen, Moscow, Rome, Frankfurt, Geneva, Manchester, Milan, Oslo, Sofia, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Bahrain and Cape Town.

Travellers will be able to earn frequent flyer points on all codeshare flights.

“It is our pleasure to seal a codeshare partnership with Qatar Airways to allow our passengers the flexibility and convenience of effective onward connectivity to a number of destinations,” said SriLankan’s CEO, Captain Suren Ratwatte. “We are also glad to tie up with another oneworld member in our strategic network expansion drive as we celebrate the second anniversary as an alliance member in May this year.”

Both SriLankan Airlines and Qatar Airways are members of the oneworld alliance.

Mark Elliott / Travel news