The airlines already flies to Mumbai every Tuesday and Sunday. It operates to four other destinations in the country - New Delhi, Chennai, Trichy and Thiruvananthapuram - deploying 26 flights each week.

SriLankan Airlines now has six new Airbus A330s in its fleet in addition to four A340s and A320s.

Last week, the A330 was introduced on the Friday and Sunday flights to New Delhi.

The airlines is also launching operations from Colombo to Dhaka and Milan on July 1 and also increasing its weekly flights to London from seven to nine.