New System to streamline reservations & promote convenience
SriLankan Airlines rewards Abu Dhabi residents using its online booking engine with special fares and promotional offers.
"We want to encourage the steady stream of passengers who book through our internet booking engine by offering them a series of special fares," SriLankan Airlines Sales Manager for Abu Dhabi, Sudath Kuruppu said.
Special fares to Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives and the Far East will be introduced regularly, on a limited time basis.
The internet booking engine has been designed with the consumer and convenience in mind, allowing travellers to search for flights, check availability of flights on any given date, book their tickets and pay online via the secure payment gateway with an internationally accepted credit card.
Credit card users can book tickets for themselves and for accompanying immediate family members.
Once the reservation procedure is complete, they can print their E/tickets instantly.
Mr. Kuruppu is confident that the new procedure will prove popular with travellers because of the advantages offered over the traditional paper ticketing arrangement.
"Customers using SriLankan Airlines' internet booking service no longer have to worry about bringing their tickets to the airport. They can simply stroll up to our check-in desk and give their booking reference, passport number, or frequent flyer details to board their flight, making issues like misplaced, damaged and forgotten tickets irrelevant," he said.
The airline's www.srilankan.aero website also offers passengers a number of other services including pre-booking their onboard duty-free purchases and meal preferences.
The can select and prebook from an entire onboard duty-free catalogue, including exclusive designer items and a range of Sri Lankan crafts. Pre-booking also ensures the availability of fast-moving onboard duty-free products.
Meanwhile, passengers with special dietary requirements can select from the extensive menu of special cuisine ranging from health and dietary meals to religious and vegetarian meals and special menus for children.
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About SriLankan Airlines
SriLankan Airlines is expanding its Middle East operations, most recently adding two weekly services to Jeddah to its network starting March 27. The airline also increased its frequencies into Qatar and Bahrain recently, taking the airlines total frequencies into the Middle East to 45 flights a week. The airline has also recently opened up new routes into Asia adding a third weekly service to Goa and launching double daily services to Mumbai earlier this year. The growing number of services to India takes SriLankan Airlines closer to the 100 flights a week mark, and reinforces its position as the foreign carrier with the most number of frequencies into ten key cities across India.
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