SriLankan Airlines (UL)
An at-a-glance profile of SriLankan Airlines, the active carrier registered in Sri Lanka under IATA code UL. Includes its callsign, ICAO identifier, and a sample of routes filed under this code.
Carrier facts
- Legal/common name: SriLankan Airlines
- Country of registration: Sri Lanka
- ATC callsign: SRILANKAN
- ICAO code: ALK
SriLankan Airlines is one of 983 active airlines indexed in this directory. The route sample below comes straight from the OpenFlights routes table. Treat it as a snapshot rather than a complete schedule. It still gives a clear picture of where the carrier flies and which airports it concentrates on.
Route sample
Up to 60 routes filed under UL. Each row links to both endpoints' airport pages and to a dedicated route page.
| From | To | Route | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMM | Amman, Jordan | AUH | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AMM→AUH |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AMM | Amman, Jordan | AUH→AMM |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | AUH→CMB |
| BAH | Bahrain, Bahrain | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BAH→CMB |
| BKK | Bangkok, Thailand | CAN | Guangzhou, China | BKK→CAN |
| BKK | Bangkok, Thailand | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BKK→CMB |
| BKK | Bangkok, Thailand | HKG | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | BKK→HKG |
| BLR | Bangalore, India | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BLR→CMB |
| BOM | Mumbai, India | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BOM→CMB |
| BTC | Batticaloa, Sri Lanka | GIU | Sigiriya, Sri Lanka | BTC→GIU |
| CAN | Guangzhou, China | BKK | Bangkok, Thailand | CAN→BKK |
| CDG | Paris, France | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | CDG→CMB |
| CGK | Jakarta, Indonesia | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | CGK→CMB |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | AUH | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | CMB→AUH |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BAH | Bahrain, Bahrain | CMB→BAH |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BKK | Bangkok, Thailand | CMB→BKK |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BLR | Bangalore, India | CMB→BLR |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | BOM | Mumbai, India | CMB→BOM |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | CDG | Paris, France | CMB→CDG |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | CGK | Jakarta, Indonesia | CMB→CGK |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | COK | Kochi, India | CMB→COK |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DAC | Dhaka, Bangladesh | CMB→DAC |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DEL | Delhi, India | CMB→DEL |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DME | Moscow, Russia | CMB→DME |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DMM | Dammam, Saudi Arabia | CMB→DMM |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DOH | Doha, Qatar | CMB→DOH |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DXB | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | CMB→DXB |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | FCO | Rome, Italy | CMB→FCO |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | FRA | Frankfurt, Germany | CMB→FRA |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | GIU | Sigiriya, Sri Lanka | CMB→GIU |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | HRI | Mattala, Sri Lanka | CMB→HRI |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | IXM | Madurai, India | CMB→IXM |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | JED | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | CMB→JED |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | KCT | Koggala, Sri Lanka | CMB→KCT |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | KHI | Karachi, Pakistan | CMB→KHI |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | KUL | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | CMB→KUL |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | KWI | Kuwait, Kuwait | CMB→KWI |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | LHR | London, United Kingdom | CMB→LHR |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | MAA | Madras, India | CMB→MAA |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | MCT | Muscat, Oman | CMB→MCT |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | MLE | Male, Maldives | CMB→MLE |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | NRT | Tokyo, Japan | CMB→NRT |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | PEK | Beijing, China | CMB→PEK |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | PVG | Shanghai, China | CMB→PVG |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | RUH | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | CMB→RUH |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | SEZ | Mahe, Seychelles | CMB→SEZ |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | SHJ | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | CMB→SHJ |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | SIN | Singapore, Singapore | CMB→SIN |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | TRV | Trivandrum, India | CMB→TRV |
| CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | TRZ | Tiruchirappalli, India | CMB→TRZ |
| COK | Kochi, India | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | COK→CMB |
| DAC | Dhaka, Bangladesh | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DAC→CMB |
| DEL | Delhi, India | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DEL→CMB |
| DME | Moscow, Russia | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DME→CMB |
| DMM | Dammam, Saudi Arabia | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DMM→CMB |
| DOH | Doha, Qatar | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DOH→CMB |
| DXB | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | DXB→CMB |
| FCO | Rome, Italy | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | FCO→CMB |
| FRA | Frankfurt, Germany | CMB | Colombo, Sri Lanka | FRA→CMB |
| GIU | Sigiriya, Sri Lanka | BTC | Batticaloa, Sri Lanka | GIU→BTC |
Top destinations in the sample
| IATA | Airport | City | Country | Sample frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMB | Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 16 |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi International Airport | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| GIU | Sigiriya Air Force Base | Sigiriya | Sri Lanka | 2 |
| BKK | Suvarnabhumi Airport | Bangkok | Thailand | 2 |
| AMM | Queen Alia International Airport | Amman | Jordan | 1 |
| CAN | Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport | Guangzhou | China | 1 |
| HKG | Hong Kong International Airport | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 1 |
| BAH | Bahrain International Airport | Bahrain | Bahrain | 1 |
| BLR | Kempegowda International Airport | Bangalore | India | 1 |
| BOM | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai | India | 1 |
| CDG | Charles de Gaulle International Airport | Paris | France | 1 |
| CGK | Soekarno-Hatta International Airport | Jakarta | Indonesia | 1 |
| COK | Cochin International Airport | Kochi | India | 1 |
| DAC | Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 1 |
| DEL | Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi | India | 1 |
| DME | Domodedovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | 1 |
| DMM | King Fahd International Airport | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | 1 |
| DXB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| FCO | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport | Rome | Italy | 1 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 1 |
| HRI | Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport | Mattala | Sri Lanka | 1 |
| IXM | Madurai Airport | Madurai | India | 1 |
| JED | King Abdulaziz International Airport | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| KCT | Koggala Airport | Koggala | Sri Lanka | 1 |
Reading an airline page
An airline's IATA code is the two-character identifier you see on tickets and flight numbers. The ICAO code is the three-letter identifier used in air traffic control and on flight plans. The callsign is the spoken name controllers use on the radio. Together they uniquely fingerprint the carrier across regulatory and operational systems, which is handy when you have a flight number from one source and want to confirm the operator from another.
Route samples here come from a community-maintained snapshot. They aren't a substitute for the airline's official schedule, but they reflect which markets the carrier has historically flown. They're also a fast way to spot a carrier's hubs, since hub airports turn up at the top of both the destination and origin lists.