Air India to resume Delhi-Colombo flight from July 15

June 10, 2019: National carrier Air India will resume its additional flight on from Delhi to Colombo route from July 15, informed civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri.

The flight was suspended following the April 21 Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka.

Puri said in a tweet on Sunday, "Honouring the spirit of friendship & mutual cooperation between India & Sri Lanka, & to express solidarity with the people of the island nation, I am delighted to announce the resumption of additional Air India flight between New Delhi & Colombo from 15th July 2019."

"Having spent several years as a young diplomat posted in Colombo, Sri Lanka & its wonderful people will always have a cherished place in my life. Also not many people know that I was in Colombo when Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi summoned me to Delhi to join his team in September 2017," he added.

Prime minister Narendra Modi, who is in Colombo, visited the St Anthony's church, one of the sites of the horrific attacks on June 9, and paid tributes to the victims of the deadly terror strikes. He pledged India's solidarity with the people of the nation.