Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Srilankan launches Sinhala and Tamil language options on website

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Srilankan Airlines has launched full-fledged Sinhala and Tamil language options on its website www.srilankan.com to better facilitate air travel of people throughout Sri Lanka, as part of a new marketing campaign on the theme of ‘Be Sri Lankan, Fly Srilankan’.

Captain Suren Ratwatte, CEO of Srilankan Airlines, said: “Srilankan Airlines has for 37 years been the largest carrier of passengers into and out of Sri Lanka, and we will continue to do so into the foreseeabl­e future. One of our main priorities is to cater to the travel needs of all Sri Lankans, and we are delighted to introduce our national languages on our website.”

Srilankan re-launched its website in April 2016, hightech features, and has since added language options in Arabic, French, German, Japanese, simplified Chinese and traditiona­l Chinese, with dedicated home pages for many countries it flies to, in order to optimize levels of convenienc­e for local customers.

Siva Ramachandr­an, Chief Commercial Officer of Srilankan, said: “The national carrier has continuous­ly expanded our services to our Sri Lankan customers through a variety of methods. The Sinhala and Tamil language enabled website offers our valued customers flexibilit­y and added convenienc­e whenever they wish to use the web services of the airline.”

The Sinhala and Tamil sites can be accessed from all types of instrument­s - desktops, laptops, tabs or smart phones – and contain all of the wide range of informatio­n and tools which the English language site does. These include the latest promotiona­l offers, an extremely user-friendly ticket booking facility, managing one’s existing bookings, on-line check-in, pre-ordering of meals, purchasing of duty free items, requesting child care, viewing flight schedules, checking on the status of any flight, making group bookings, informatio­n on the airline’s frequent flyer programme Flysmiles, and much more.

The site also contains all types of corporate news on Srilankan Airlines including details of Srilankan’s on-board entertainm­ent system and in-flight cuisine and comforts, informatio­n on its fleet of state of the art all-airbus aircraft, airport services, Srilankan Holidays, Srilankan Cargo, the airline’s campaign for environmen­tal conservati­on, and its CSR arm Srilankan Cares.

Srilankan Airlines, a member of the prestigiou­s oneworld global airline alliance, has a worldwide network spanning 100 destinatio­ns in 48 countries.

 ??  ?? Srilankan Airlines Chairman Ajith Dias launching Sinhala and Tamil websitesat­the public launch event held at the World Trade Center
Srilankan Airlines Chairman Ajith Dias launching Sinhala and Tamil websitesat­the public launch event held at the World Trade Center

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