Flights to Jaffna (Palaly Airport) After 36 years from Chennai, South India: Jaffna is the capital of Northern Srilanka. The first flight from Chennai to Jaffna International Airport lands today. The revamped airport is set to open after the landing of Alliance Air India Flight from Chennai International Airport. Air India maidens its flight in Jaffna and opening ceremony ignited by President Maithirapali Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe.
Jaffna airline connection with South India breaks during the period of internal war in Sri Lanka in 1980s. The war came to an end only in 2009. After the plea of Tamilians in SriLanka to the government about the Airport Facility to South India, the Sri Lankan authorities with the support of the Indian state, accepted the demand. Merely with a budget of 220 crores and the help of India, Jaffna International airport also called Palaly Airport, takes its new avatar at Palaly.
The war proclamation took 36 years for Srilanka to pave the airway to South India. Air India marks its maiden landing with its crew, technical team,air-hostess of about twenty-seven people landed in new Jaffna Airport. Jaffna and Chennai made its first air bond via Air India; Sri Lankan authorities celebrated the landing and opening of the Jaffna International Airport.