Sri Lanka has resumed its direct flights between Colombo and Paris after a lapse of six years on Monday.
Airport officials said that a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris had arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake early on Monday, carrying 200 passengers.
The officials said that Sri Lankan Airlines will operate scheduled flights between Sri Lanka and France non-stop every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
The first direct flights between the two countries was launched in the 1980s.
In 2015, these direct flights were discontinued.
