SriLankan Airlines

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3 star Skytrax Rating
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Seat Comfort 12345
Staff Service 12345
Value for Money 12345
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1/10

"not willing to give accommodation"

(India)

Verified Review | I booked SriLankan Airlines to go from Chennai to Dubai via Colombo on 7th October in business class. It's transit flight. We Colombo at 10pm, my flight to dubai is at 6pm next day. We enquired for the stay, they were not willing to give accommodation. We had to pay for visa, Taxi and hotel. Nothing was provided by the airline. But at least the immigration officer was humane enough to give us transit visa for free of charge. Horrible experience. Till 12pm, I was with my wife in airport deciding what to do.
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Seat TypeBusiness Class
RouteMAA to DXB via CMB
Date FlownOctober 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Wifi & Connectivity 12345
Value For Money 12345
no
5/10

"it was a disappointment"

(United Arab Emirates)

Flew Dubai to Kuala Lumpar via Colombo. All flights with SriLankan Airlines were on time, the crew were average and were nowhere near as good as previous flights with them. The A330 had the old style eating, as this was a red eye trying to get the bed into a cradle or lay flat was like being catapaulted to the moon. These are well past their sell by date. One big irritation was that a VIP's daughter who was a UM in business and two of the crew were talking/laughing to her at the top of their voices for nearly 2 hours whilst the rest of the cabin was trying to sleep being 2 am in the morning. Just not good enough within a premium cabin, why pay the extra to sleep if crew dont have the basics. Food and beverages were ok, they were out of my main course option on the DXB-CMB leg and the breakfast was greasy on the CMB-KUL leg. Lounge in CMB is ok and serves a mix of food, teas and juices. Overall adequate for the 2 hour layover. On arrival to KL we were appraching and came into a strong monsoon rain spell, the captain had to do a touch land and go around procedure due to bad weather, unnerving and no word from the cockpit had many people very nervous. Overall from previous flights it was a disappointment.
AircraftA330, A320
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Seat TypeBusiness Class
RouteDXB to KUL via CMB
Date FlownJanuary 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
no
7/10

"delay was managed well"

(United Arab Emirates)

Verified Review | Colombo to Bangkok with SriLankan Airlines. The aircraft had the new seats which were the angled herringbone ones and were very comfortable. We took off on time and the usual efficient service started. Unfortunately just as we were finishing breakfast, the aircraft had to return back to Colombo as there was a technical issue. This was distressing but the crew kept us informed regularly and luckily a replacement aircraft was present right adjacent to us and we took off in it. Overall we had a delay of almost 3 hours but this was managed well by UL.
AircraftA330
Type Of TravellerBusiness
Seat TypeBusiness Class
RouteCMB to BKK
Date FlownSeptember 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Wifi & Connectivity 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
8/10

"crew were very nice and efficient"

(United Arab Emirates)

Verified Review | Dubai to Colombo with SriLankan Airlines. This airline offers a good value travel to the far east. Check in was swift and efficient and we took off 45 minutes late due to ATC. The seats were flatbeds with great amount of space. A full course meal was served with 4 choices but I opted to sleep. We landed on time and had to be taken on a bus towards the terminal. The crew were very nice and efficient in their job.
AircraftA330
Type Of TravellerBusiness
Seat TypeBusiness Class
RouteDXB to CMB
Date FlownSeptember 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
7/10

"very nice and attentive"

(Netherlands)

Verified Review | Frankfurt to Colombo and Colombo to Paris on A330-300. As I understood its a pretty brand new plane. The plane looks good: seats good condition, bathroom clean. Legroom is minor. I'm not a good reference because Im 6'6 but my girlfriend who is 5'8 just fitted well. On the way back to Paris I was fortunate to have emergency exit seets (row 20 & 50). In-flight entertainment system is Android based and mediocre: just 2 new movies, the rest is pretty old (range from 2 years old to classic movies). Also not a lot of TV shows. Food was good according to Economy standards: on both flights had 2 dishes of which 2 options each were available. Cabin crew is good: they were very nice and attentive. No delays on both flights. Landing was perfect. Recommended.
AircraftA330-300
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteFRA to CMB
Date FlownSeptember 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Wifi & Connectivity 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
10/10

"are always very helpful"

(United Kingdom)

Verified Review | I am a platinum customer of SriLankan Airlines and travel frequently to and from the Maldives from London, as I built a boutique style hotel there specialising in diving holidays. SriLankan Airlines have been very helpful in carrying all the strange and varied things I have had to take with me for the hotel. All our china crockery, glasses, towels, etc have been transported by SriLankan Airlines and very little was broken. They are always very helpful if I give them advance warning. The food is special and the staff are couteous and helpful. Flights have been on time and I recommend travel from Europe to all my guests. You generally don't have a long transfer time in Colombo so you can get a nights sleep and then only another hour to Maldives.
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteLHR to MLE via CMB
Date FlownJuly 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
8/10

"crew was efficient and friendly2

(Australia)

Chennai to Colombo. Very disorganised boarding at Chennai airport. Flight left with a 10 min delay. Service resumed soon after a take off on this very short flight. Crew was efficient and friendly. Meal consisted of a vegetable fried rice, semolina pudding and rea coffee. Food was delicious. Seats were comfortable on this flight. Entertainment was ok but could be improved like Emirate's ICE system
AircraftA330-200
Type Of TravellerSolo Leisure
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteMAA to CMB
Date FlownSeptember 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
1/10

"made us miss our flight"

(France)

Verified Review | We booked 3 seats in the flight from Colombo to Chennai. The take-off was planned at 00:55am. At 00:00, the person who was taking care of our checking checked our passports and printed our 3 boarding passes. He then asked my friend to show his return ticket to his home country. According to him, this was required as my friend had a business visa expiring in less than 6 months. From 00:00 to 00:30am, we literally begged Sri Lankan employees to provide us an internet access in order to show the required ticket. Moreover we were not able to use the airport wifi as the connexion was too slow. None of the employees helped us in any way. The trainee in charge of our check-in kept on asking us to wait 5 mn for his help, while taking care of the other customers, without finally helping us in any way to solve the situation. His manager was also present, and literally ignored our request. He even threatened us to call the airport security and to throw us out of the airport as we were becoming really worried and helpless. Eventually, I managed to load the ticket of my friend on my own phone, and showed it at 00:30am to the employee. He then replied back that the gate was already closed and didn't let us proceed to the boarding, though we still had 25 mins before flight take-off. We therefore had to change our three tickets for the next flight, paying extra charges, and waiting from 00:55am to 7:20am in the airport. SriLankan Airlines staff made us miss our flight for no valuable reasons. We tried raising a complaint, but they refused to take any action to compensate us.
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteCMB to MAA
Date FlownAugust 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Wifi & Connectivity 12345
Value For Money 12345
no
7/10

"flight experience is above average"

(Singapore)

Verified Review | The SriLankan Airlines timing and price, is probably one of the best to fly from Singapore to Colombo. Overall, the flight experience is above average. The flight attendants are attentive and respond promptly to the passengers. On the other hand, the seats are old and in-flight entertainment is limited. Look forward to better in-flight entertainment and they could actually spray a little less of the air freshener before touchdown, this would be greatly appreciated.
AircraftA320
Type Of TravellerBusiness
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteSIN to CMB
Date FlownAugust 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes
9/10

"an absolute delight"

(United Arab Emirates)

Verified Review | Recently flew Dubai to Colombo and back with SriLankan Airlines. The out bound journey on board their A330-200 was in Economy Class with a fantastic team of flight attendants, great tasty meals and good selection of onboard AVOD. While on the return I was pleasantly surprised to be upgraded to Business Class and that too on their latest A330-300. The crew on this flight was superb too, exquisite food and beverage selection, and a good variety of AVOD again. I must say the lie flat was an absolute delight. Would highly recommend SriLankan.
AircraftA330-200 / A330-300
Type Of TravellerSolo Leisure
Seat TypeEconomy Class
RouteDXB to CMB
Date FlownJuly 2016
Seat Comfort 12345
Cabin Staff Service 12345
Food & Beverages 12345
Inflight Entertainment 12345
Ground Service 12345
Value For Money 12345
yes