SriLankan Airlines flight information now available via GPRS

SriLankan Airlines has launched a new mobile phone service that enables its passengers to check real-time flight details.

This latest SriLankan service allows anyone with a GPRS-enabled mobile phone to obtain information and schedules of current and future SriLankan flights simply by accessing the site “gprs.srilankan.aero”.

The system, connected to the SriLankan Flight Operations Control tracking system “FleetWatch”, provides up-to-date information such as flight number, departure and arrival time, destination details, aircraft type, flight schedule over the next two days etc.

The system will also soon include flight information of other airlines operated through Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport.

Kamal Nanayakkara, Head of IT at SriLankan Airlines, said, “With this new system, you no longer have to call up the airport to check the flight arrival or departure information, or wait long hours for a phone call to check the actual arrival at the destination is on time. Neither do you have to go to a ticket office or travel agents to get the flight schedule to make your travel plan from anywhere.”

Apart from SriLankan’s international flight information, the system also provides information on SriLankan Air Taxi - the domestic arm of SriLankan which flies to 15 destinations in Sri Lanka.

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