Air Taxi in Sri Lanka.

Air taxi service is available in Sri Lanka for the benefit of foreign tourists and the local residents through the Srilankan airlines at affordable price. You can select your top tourist destinations in Sri Lanka's popular cities. This special air taxi service reduces your long road trips to enjoy your trips at most popular tourist destination in the Island nation with more time to spend.

Sri Lankan Air Taxi serves to nearly 14 local destinations as Colombo and Kandy are being the main operation locations. Jaffna, Batticaloa, Trincomalee Bentota, Koggala, Dikwella and Nuwara Eliya are some of them. Mostly the air taxi service leaves Colombo in the morning and provides return service in the evenings to fly back to Colombo city.

Air Taxi in Sri Lanka

Srilankan airlines is currently operating two Twin Otter aircrafts for these operations, each of them can carry up to 15 passengers on a flight that will take normally 45 minutes. Mean while the same destination will take nearly 6 hours if you take by road in a good vehicle.

Here are some of the identified air taxi services operating points that are readily available in Sri Lanka. Colombo's Beira Lake, Negombo Lagoon, Castlereagh, Tissamaharama Arugam Bay, Kandy, Bentota, Nuwara Eliya, Galle (Koggala), Ampara, Trincomalee, Dambulla and Dickwella.

Cinamonair too offers daily air taxi services to most part of Sri Lana on daily basis. Thye mostly covers the tourist destinations with their services. You can book your flights in their website. You can book your air ticket for around US$270 from Colombo to Trincomalee.

Also the airline offers special air tours like scenic tours, charter flights, cultural and sports events.

The air taxi is recommended for the tourists as it flies low and allows you to view, video graph or to capture good images with your cameras of the island's palm-fringed golden beaches, lush tropical forests, gushing waterfalls, and mist-swathed mountains.

As of April Srilankan air taxi service and Cinamonair used to rpovide special offers on routes of Colombo to Nuwara Eliya and Nuwara Eliya to Colombo at the cost of around US$ 150- + tax one way. The flight duration is just 30 minutes only. Likewise they are also providing scenic flights along with the scheduled flights on daily basis. Enjoy your Tamil Sinhala New year by flying joyfully.

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