Sri Lankan Airlines suspends morning service from Tiruchi airport

Overseas freight handled at the airport here has been hit due to suspension of one of the daily services of the Sri Lankan Airlines from here to Colombo. Daily shipments to Kuwait which were being dispatched through the airlines morning flight have been affected. Until recently Sri Lankan Airlines used to operate two services daily in the Tiruchi-Colombo sector – one in the morning and the other in the evening. The morning flight used to arrive at around 8.40 a.m. 

and depart about an hour later. The second service used to reach Tiruchi at around 2.40 p.m. and leave at 3.30 p.m. The airline recently announced its winter schedule stating that the morning flight would arrive at Tiruchi at 8.40 a.m.