Twenty-two individuals have died and over 30 others left injured in a tragic bus accident that occurred in the early hours of yesterday (11) at Gerandi Ella, in the Ramboda area, Police said. The ...

In 1934 the State Council of Ceylon decided that an airport with easy access to Colombo was a necessity and declared that Ratmalana was the best site available. Accordingly, an airfield was built, and ...

One person is injured after a fight erupted inside a terminal at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, leading to a shooting outside, reports say. Footage captured by Fox32Chicago showed a ...

The Aircraft Owners and Operators Association (AOAOA), raised serious concerns about aviation safety in Sri Lanka, particularly pointing to the concrete boundary wall at the Colombo International ...

Not far away was Ratmalana airport, Ceylon’s first airport, and its international airport until 1967. I cannot recall hearing any noise from that direction. All it had was a small, twee art deco ...

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It will be more prudent to divert those funds to the expansion of the Colombo International Airport at Ratmalana. Even with the JICA-funded expansion of the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) ...

The other two facilities are Ratmalana Airport (also in Colombo) and Mattala Airport. In 2017, the latter was dubbed ‘The World’s Emptiest International Airport' by Forbes due to low number of ...

Other airports being offered are Ratmalana Airport in Colombo and Mattala Airport, the latter earning the tag of the world’s emptiest international airport seven years ago. “There are plans ...

“Immigration cannot handle the Airport load in Sri Lanka. That’s why I told the president to let the Charter flight operations to be landed in Mattala and Indian (Charter) flights to be landed in ...