Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has resumed daily flights on three India–Sri Lanka routes, restoring air links that support tourism, trade and business travel between the two countries.
Services resumed on 1 October on the New Delhi–Colombo, Bengaluru–Colombo and Tiruchirappalli–Jaffna routes.
The Delhi and Bengaluru services to Colombo are expected to serve tourists, business travellers and diplomatic passengers moving between the two countries.
Trichy–Jaffna back after three months
IndiGo’s direct service between Tiruchirappalli Airport in Tamil Nadu and Jaffna International Airport resumed on 1 October following a three-month suspension.
The route operates three days a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights depart Tiruchirappalli at 1.05 p.m. and arrive in Jaffna at 1.50 p.m., with the return leg departing Jaffna at 2.30 p.m. Eighty-eight passengers travelled on the first flight of the restored service.
Welcomed in the north
The restoration of the direct link has been welcomed in the Northern Province, where it offers a faster alternative to routing through Colombo for travel between northern Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu.
The route carries significance beyond tourism, serving long-standing family, cultural and commercial ties between Tamil Nadu and the north. Its return adds to a broader reopening of connections across the Palk Strait, alongside sea links to Kankesanthurai, where 187 acres of State land were released this week for a proposed investment zone.
The Daily Mirror reported the resumption; IndiGo has not published a separate statement on the restored schedule.
