SriLankan extends its wings to Gampaha

SriLankan Airlines in a bid to increase its presence in all parts of the country opened its latest passenger sales office in Gampaha; under the patronage Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena together with - Director General Special Projects and Operations, Ministry of Economic Development Lalith Abeygunawardana opens the new SriLankan office at the heart of the Gampha town. (From left) Head of Worldwide Sales of SriLankan Lal Perera and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) G.T Jeyaseelan look on.

The branch office will facilitate travel formalities to a large clientele in the Gampaha district. This includes handling of reservations, ticketing, Prepaid Ticket Advices (PTAs), requests for special services, information on fares, schedules and packages essentially offering the same sales activity carried out by any city office of the airline. SriLankan has appointed LandoTravels (Pvt) Limited, which is a leading IATA accredited travel Agency in Sri Lanka that caters the travel facilities for clients such as airline ticketing and reservations, travel insurance, outbound holidays, inbound tour programmes and worldwide hotel reservations.

Providing a direct and comfortable service to our customers at their own city is one of the objectives that we have initiated to expand our business to all parts of the country. The opening of the Gampaha branch would facilitate us to serve our customers even better where they are no longer required to come to Colombo to get done their travel requirements accordingly including this office we have opened four offices across the country said Chairman, SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe.

SriLankan Airlines Chief Executive Officer Kapila Chandrasena said, "SriLankan targets to make SriLankan brand and product readily available in each and every corner of our country to provide an extended service to all customers under our extensive expanding strategy.

The opening of Gampaha branch marks another successful step into an administrative town in Sri Lanka making travels easier and comfortable on SriLankan."