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| Founded | 1997 | |||
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| Hubs | Bandaranaike International Airport (Colombo) | |||
| Secondary hubs | Dubai International Airport | |||
| Focus cities | Dubai | |||
| Fleet size | 6 | |||
| Destinations | 2 | |||
| Company slogan | Your Friend in the Skies | |||
| Headquarters | Colombo, Sri Lanka | |||
| Key people | Shafik Kassim (Managing Director) | |||
| Website | http://www.expoavi.com | |||
Expo Air is an airline based in Colombo, Sri Lanka that operates domestic passenger services and international cargo services to the Middle East and the India. Its main base is Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo.[1]
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Expo Aviation was established in 1997 but actual flight operations started in 1998 using 2 Antonov An-8 aircraft which were later replaced by Antonov An-12s. In 2001, Expo Aviation started domestic operations to Jaffna using IL-18 aircraft and Antonov An-26. Soon after this, the airline was renamed Expo Air. The next year, in 2002, the airline leased 3 Fokker F27 aircraft from Oman Air. An IL-18 started operations in 2003 and Expo Air launched cabin crew training in 2004. In 2005, Expo Air applied to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) to operate international passenger services to the following destinations: Malé, Mumbai, Tiruchirapalli and Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Vizag, Kochi, Bangalore, Chennai, Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Kathmandu, Chittagong, Dhaka, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat, Jeddah, Beirut, Cairo, Australia, Points in Africa, points in Europe using Airbus A320 for short-hauled flights and Airbus A330 or Airbus A340 aircraft for long-hauled flights.[2] Following that year, in 2006, ExpoAir added a Douglas DC-8 to its fleet and sold the Fokker 27 and the aging IL-18 aircraft.
Expo flies to the following services to scheduled domestic and international destinations:
The Expo Aviation fleet includes the following aircraft:[1]
An Ilyushin Il-76 is also operated in cooperation with Lufthansa Cargo.
ExpoAir has a leasing arm that wet and dry leases aircraft to third parties. In 2005 an F27 was dry-leased to Pakistan International Airlines, and in 2006 it wet-leased a Douglas DC8-63CF to Air Mauritius. In 2007 it dry-leased another F27 aircraft to Mihin Lanka. In 2008 it wet-leased a Beech Super King Air 200 from South Africa and sub-leased the aircraft to the UN arm of WFP for operations in Sri Lanka.
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