SriLankan Airlines (UL) flights & route network
87 routes · 43 destinations · 5 hub airports across 24 countrys.
Figures computed from the public OpenFlights datasetData source: OpenFlights routes.dat
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SriLankan Airlines hub airports
Airports ranked by the number of SriLankan Airlines routes originating from each IATA code. A higher count indicates a stronger hub — more nonstop destinations available from that airport.
Routes operated by UL
Showing the 50 longest SriLankan Airlines routes parsed from the OpenFlights routes dataset. Click any route for live fare comparison.
UL route network
Every figure below is computed live from the OpenFlights routes dataset at the time of page render. No prices, no fabricated carrier names — only the airline codes stored verbatim in thedirectCarriersJSON field on each FlightRoute row.
All countries served by UL
Ranked by the number of SriLankan Airlines routes arriving in each destination country. The leading market is where the airline concentrates most of its international capacity.
About flying with SriLankan Airlines
SriLankan Airlines (UL) operates 87 scheduled flight routes parsed from the OpenFlights public routes dataset.
From its primary hub at CMB (Colombo, Sri Lanka) the airline flies 36 nonstop routes, with 4 additional airports serving as regional connection points across the network.
The longest nonstop route operated by SriLankan Airlines is Colombo (CMB) to London (LHR), covering 5,416 great-circle miles and averaging about 45m of flight time. Its shortest scheduled route — Sigiriya (GIU) to Trinciomalee (TRR) — covers just 51 miles.
Across the full network, SriLankan Airlines serves 24 countrys; the most-served destination market is Sri Lanka with 45 inbound routes.
How to find the best SriLankan Airlines fares
Booking out of CMB is usually the strongest fare play: SriLankan Airlines concentrates 36 of its routess from Colombo, and higher route density at a hub means more head-to-head competition — both from other SriLankan Airlines departures and from rival carriers serving overlapping city pairs. Use the Kayak search box above with origin set to CMB to see the airline's full departure board at a glance.
All route, hub, destination and country figures are computed directly from the OpenFlights public-domain routes dataset(openflights.org/data.php)— specifically the directCarriers JSON field on every FlightRoute row, where each airline code (e.g. UL) is parsed from the OpenFlightsroutes.dat airline identifier column. Carrier names come from the companion OpenFlights airlines.dat dataset. No prices or fare estimates appear on this page — those values fluctuate continuously across 100+ booking sites and are fetched live via Kayak at search time.