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UL · hub Colombo (CMB) · oneworld

Hand carry on SriLankan Airlines

Colombo for apparel samples and gemstones, with useful onward links to southern India and the Maldives.

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RouteUAE → CMB

Typical flying time4h 22m

Distance≈3,300 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon SriLankan Airlines

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on SriLankan Airlines, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Colombo (CMB) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)

SHJAir Arabia (daily)

DOHQatar Airways (daily or better)

AUHEtihad (daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

HRIMattala Rajapaksa, Hambantota · ≈170 km straight-line · connection gateway

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on SriLankan Airlines

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on SriLankan Airlines that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on SriLankan Airlines is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on SriLankan Airlines first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on SriLankan Airlines: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

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SriLankan Airlines in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the UL code that yields 33 city pairs across 34 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

34airports on this carrier

22countries and territories reached

33scheduled city pairs held

81average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the UL code on 33 city pairs, reaching 34 airports in 22 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by SriLankan Airlines and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 76.5 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Colombo (CMB) to Sydney (SYD) at about 8,763 km, and the shortest is Colombo (CMB) to Madurai (IXM) at about 355 km. 7 of the 33 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Colombo (CMB), on 32 of them, which is 97 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Colombo (CMB) to Dubai (DXB) at about 9.1 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 2.6 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 7 of the 33 pairs run four or more times a day and 13 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Colombo (CMB) the code leans on Doha (DOH) on 2, Antalya (AYT) on 1, Bangkok (BKK) on 1 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the UL code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Colombo CMB	Dubai DXB	the United Arab Emirates	9.1	3,288	plan this
Colombo CMB	Malé MLE	Maldives	8.6	778	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Chennai MAA	India	7.6	647	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Doha DOH	Qatar	6.9	3,613	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Kuala Lumpur KUL	Malaysia	6	2,467	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Singapore SIN	Singapore	4.6	2,750	the pair page
Colombo CMB	New Delhi DEL	India	4.6	2,396	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Kuwait City KWI	Kuwait	3.7	4,142	the pair page
Mumbai BOM	Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	3.6	1,526	the pair page
Bangkok BKK	Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	3.4	2,392	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	2.7	710	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Dhaka DAC	Bangladesh	2	2,166	the pair page

The 12 sectors the UL code appears on most often, out of 33. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

Where UL meets the UAE gateways

SriLankan Airlines is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 1 pairs under this code touching Dubai (DXB), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.

UAE airport	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	9.1	3,288	plan this

Night restrictions on the airports the UL code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 9 of the 34 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

Doha (DOH), night operations. Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
Seoul (ICN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
Dubai (DXB), night operations. Operates around the clock. The overnight departure bank to Europe leaves between roughly 01:00 and 04:00 local, which is what makes a same day European delivery possible.
Singapore (SIN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Sydney (SYD), curfew. Curfew between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Jet departures are not permitted in that window and a late departure waits until morning.

Published lanes that carry the UL code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. SriLankan Airlines appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Dubai to Colombo at about 9.1 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Dubai to Colombo, about 9.1 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 3,288 km.

The countries the UL code opens

Of the 22 countries and territories reached, 17 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is India with 9 airports on this code. The country desk for Sri Lanka sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

India (9 airports), Saudi Arabia (2 airports), Pakistan (2 airports), Australia (2 airports), Maldives (2 airports), Nepal (1 airports), Sri Lanka (1 airports), South Korea (1 airports), Türkiye (1 airports), Germany (1 airports).

Where to go next on the UL network

Each of the 34 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 33 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Colombo (CMB), the route calculator with Dubai to CMB already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where SriLankan Airlines fits in an OBC routing

SriLankan Airlines is based in Sri Lanka and operates from Colombo (CMB) as a member of oneworld. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book SriLankan Airlines when it has the next seat that gets your consignment there, and we combine it freely with any other airline on the same routing because we hold no alliance membership and no exclusive contract.

Cabin baggage reality

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We still confirm the limit for the specific flight and aircraft type before quoting.

Connections

Where a single SriLankan Airlines sector does not reach the destination, the courier connects, and stays with the consignment on every leg, so it is never handed over in transit.

How we book

An ordinary passenger seat on the open market, in the courier's own name, matching the passport exactly. Premium cabins when the consignment or the schedule justifies it.

Customs is separate

The airline moves the aircraft; the courier declares the goods. Entry rules are per country, not per carrier, see our country guides.

Why frequency matters

A carrier with three rotations a day turns a missed departure into a short wait. That is worth more on a deadline than a marginally faster aircraft.

Independence

No alliance, no exclusivity, no volume commitment. The schedule decides, not a supplier agreement.

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

Airline timetables change constantly, so rather than reprint a schedule that will be wrong next month, here is what is useful: the markets where SriLankan Airlines regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on SriLankan Airlines, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Sri Lanka →Colombo

Markets in South Asia:

India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Nepal Maldives All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on SriLankan Airlines or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying SriLankan Airlines

What clients and couriers ask when they see this carrier on an assignment.

01Are you an agent or partner of SriLankan Airlines?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent courier management company. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my consignment definitely fly SriLankan Airlines?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option for your deadline. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits.

03How much can a courier carry on SriLankan Airlines?

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on SriLankan Airlines?

If you are in our network, yes, couriers fly whichever airline the assignment requires. We book and pay the ticket and pay a fee per completed assignment.

Need a routing that uses SriLankan Airlines?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

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Why a courier on SriLankan Airlines rather than a cargo booking

The difference between a courier and a shipment is not speed, although speed is the reason most people call. The difference is that a shipment is a record in a system and a courier is a person with a legal obligation. Systems queue; people answer questions. That distinction decides almost everything about how a consignment behaves at a border.

It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

The other thing being bought is answerability. When a customs officer has a question about a shipment, the shipment cannot answer, so it waits for someone who can. When the question is asked of a courier standing at the counter with the invoice in their hand, it is answered immediately. That is not a marketing claim; it is the entire operational advantage compressed into one sentence.

What that adds up to for Colombo is a service you should use when the deadline is real and ignore when it is not. We would rather tell you to send it as express freight and keep the relationship than sell you a courier for a box that could have travelled overnight anyway.

How an assignment routed over Colombo runs

The whole point of an on board courier is that nothing waits for a batch. Here is what actually happens between your message and the signature on a Colombo assignment, with the timings we work to rather than the ones a brochure would promise.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

Everything starts with an honest description of the goods. We ask what it is, what it costs, who is receiving it in Colombo and when it must be in their hands. Vague answers produce vague quotes and, far worse, customs problems at the other end.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

Before a price exists we screen the parties, the commodity and the route against sanctions and export-control lists, and we check whether Colombo requires a permit or a licensed consignee for that category. This is also where we occasionally say no, and a provider who never says no has simply moved the risk onto you.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Colombo, visa eligibility usually narrows the list faster than availability does, which is exactly why a global courier network is worth having.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

The courier collects in person, checks the goods against the description, seals the packaging with a numbered tamper-evident seal and photographs it. The commercial invoice, packing list and any permit travel with the courier, and a copy reaches our operations desk and the consignee in Colombo at the same moment.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

The flight is the boring part, and that is the point. No hold, no handling agent, no transfer between systems, one person, one box, one continuous chain of custody all the way to Colombo (CMB).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Colombo (CMB), answers questions in person and, where the category or the value warrants it, meets a customs broker we have already briefed. The handover is against signature, printed name and an identification reference, timestamped and with photographs where you have asked for them.

The paperwork that decides how fast Colombo goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Colombo (CMB).

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Sri Lanka temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Sri Lanka are the consignee's cost unless you have agreed otherwise in writing, and the terms should be settled before departure. It is a small conversation before the flight and an expensive one after it.

Legalisation and attestation

Documents that must be legalised, apostilled or attested to be valid in Sri Lanka are checked before the courier collects them. A perfectly delivered document that lacks the right stamp has not solved anybody's problem.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter Sri Lanka at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Sri Lanka can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Colombo (CMB) into an afternoon.

What a Colombo courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

What is always included

Ticket, courier fee, airport transfers, the hotel where an overnight is unavoidable, the documentation work and our operations desk being awake for the whole journey. What is not included is duty and tax in Sri Lanka, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Colombo quote.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Colombo (CMB) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to Sri Lanka needs a visthe courier does not hold, either we assign a courier who does or we position one, and a global network exists precisely so that the answer is usually the first option rather than the second.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Colombo is one ticket and one risk. A two-sector routing is cheaper on paper and more expensive in practice, because every connection is a chance to lose the consignment's schedule. We quote the routing we would actually fly, not the cheapest one that technically arrives.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in Sri Lanka sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — A dhow crossed to India on the monsoon. Today the crossing takes an afternoon, and a person still carries what matters most.
The story of the Gulf

What can go wrong on a Colombo assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Colombo, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

Something needs to continue past Colombo

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Colombo (CMB) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Colombo (CMB) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

The goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

PharmaAUH → LHR

Validation samples at 2 to 8 °C for a London reference lab, data-logger sealed.

Cool-chain packed16:30

In the cabin21:05

Lab signature08:20 +1

✓ Chain of custody and temperature log unbroken.

MediaLHR → DXB

A graded master drive for a premiere, no copies allowed to travel unaccompanied.

Post-house12:15

In the cabin16:20

Screening room01:30 +1

✓ Premiere ran from the original.

YachtingNCE → DXB

A regatta winch motor between two race days.

Chandlery13:20

Evening non-stop18:05

Marina berth03:10 +1

✓ Boat on the start line.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

A seat of its own, never out of sight

The case flies belted in the cabin next to the courier, never checked in.

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An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

Departure hub

Destination airport

What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

How urgent?

Indicative total ,

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Aircraft wing above the clouds — From this tarmac a courier can reach six continents before tomorrow night.
The geography that built Dubai

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Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

Request received. We reply by email from bookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae, usually within 15 minutes.

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I need to send something

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We pay the ticket and a fee per completed assignment. You choose when you are available.

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on SriLankan Airlines is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

Prefer to compare first? Read when a seat beats a parcel network, browse the industries we move for or scan the airlines the couriers the desk places fly with. If you travel often yourself, flying as an OnBoard Courier pays per completed assignment. For anything urgent, the fastest route is the quote form above, answered by a person, day or night.

One person beats a parcel networkon SriLankan Airlines

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Operational route facts

How the flying actually works

Alternative gateways nearby

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on SriLankan Airlines

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on SriLankan Airlines: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

SriLankan Airlines in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the UL code most often

Where UL meets the UAE gateways

Night restrictions on the airports the UL code uses

Published lanes that carry the UL code

The countries the UL code opens

Where to go next on the UL network

Where SriLankan Airlines fits in an OBC routing

Cabin baggage reality

Connections

How we book

Customs is separate

Why frequency matters

Independence

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

On board courier vs air cargo

✓ On board courier

✕ Air cargo & express freight

Questions about flying SriLankan Airlines

01Are you an agent or partner of SriLankan Airlines?

02Will my consignment definitely fly SriLankan Airlines?

03How much can a courier carry on SriLankan Airlines?

04Can I fly as a courier on SriLankan Airlines?

Need a routing that uses SriLankan Airlines?

Why a courier on SriLankan Airlines rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Colombo runs

You tell us what it is

We screen it and price it

A named courier is assigned and booked

Collection, sealing and documentation

The consignment stays in the cabin

Customs, then a signature

The paperwork that decides how fast Colombo goes

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Duty, tax and who pays it

Legalisation and attestation

Tariff classification

Temperature and dangerous goods

Commercial invoice

What a Colombo courier actually costs, and why

What is always included

How much notice you give us

Declared value and insurance

The ground legs at both ends

Visas and positioning

Distance and sector count

What can go wrong on a Colombo assignment, and what we do about it

The flight is cancelled

The declared value is challenged

The courier is refused boarding

Something needs to continue past Colombo

Customs asks a question

The goods turn out to be regulated

More questions about carrying a consignment on SriLankan Airlines

01Is the consignment insured?

02Are you an airline?

03What happens if the flight is cancelled?

04Do you handle customs at Colombo (CMB)?

05How quickly can a courier leave for Colombo?

06Can you collect outside the UAE?

07What do you need from me to start?

08How is delivery proven?

How jobs like this actually run

A seat of its own, never out of sight

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

Get a quote for this route

Request a quote

I need to send something

I want to fly as a courier