{"id":479500,"date":"2022-03-28T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T05:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479500"},"modified":"2022-03-28T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T05:44:24","slug":"sri-lankas-oldest-airport-sees-first-international-flight-in-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lankas-oldest-airport-sees-first-international-flight-in-over-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s oldest airport sees first international flight in over 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s oldest and first international airport was relaunched on Sunday with its first international flight landing in 54 years, aviation officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A flight from the Maldives landed at the Ratmalana International Airport in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-seater Maldivian flight would operate three flights a week to Colombo which would be later expanded to five per weeks, the aviation officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ratmalana airport was turned into a domestic airport after the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake was commissioned in the late 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s oldest and first international airport was relaunched on Sunday with its first international flight landing in 54 years, aviation officials said. A flight from the Maldives landed at the Ratmalana International Airport in Colombo. The 50-seater Maldivian flight would operate three flights a week to Colombo which would be later expanded to five per weeks, the aviation officials said. The Ratmalana airport was turned into a domestic airport after the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake was commissioned in the late 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}