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FITS Aviation (Pvt) Limited, DBA FitsAir (formerly known as ExpoAir), is a Sri Lankan airline. It operates scheduled passenger services within Sri Lanka, as well as international cargo flights to several cities in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and also operates charter flights to India. The company slogan is Your Friend in the Skies.

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FitsAir

IATA ICAO Callsign 8D EXV EXPOAVIA
Founded	1997; 25 years ago (1997) (as Expo Aviation)
Hubs	Bandaranaike International Airport Ratmalana Airport
Focus cities	Dubai International Airport Malé
Fleet size	8
Destinations	13
Headquarters	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Key people	Shafik Kassim (Chairman) Omar Kayaam (Managing Director)
Website	www.fitsair.com

ExpoAir was the first airline in Sri Lanka to be certified under the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO) annex requirements, as well as being the first domestic airline to be certified by the Department of Civil Aviation to commence flights to Jaffna.

History

Expo Aviation was established in 1997, with operations commencing in 1998 using 2 Antonov An-8 aircraft, which were later replaced by An-12s.

In 2001, Expo Aviation started domestic operations to Jaffna using Ilyushin Il-18 and Antonov An-26 aircraft. Soon after this, the airline was renamed ExpoAir.

The next year, in 2002, the airline leased 3 Fokker F27 aircraft from Oman Air. An additional IL-18 started operating in 2003, and ExpoAir launched cabin crew training in 2004.

In 2005, Expo Air applied to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) to operate international air cargo services to Malé, Mumbai, Tiruchirapalli, 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, and Cairo, as well as various cities in Australia, Africa, and Europe, with the short-haul routes utilizing the Airbus A320 and long-haul routes utilizing the Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 models.[1] In 2006, ExpoAir added a Douglas DC-8 to its fleet and sold a Fokker 27.

Starting in January 2012, Expo Air relaunched its scheduled passenger flights from Ratmalana Airport to Jaffna Airport with a brand-new Cessna 208 Caravan. The aircraft has 12 seats and passengers are able to reach Jaffna in less than 1 hour.

In 2019, the airline expanded its domestic operations by introducing scheduled flights from Colombo to Balticaloa.[2]

Scheduled Domestic operations to Jaffna recommenced in February 2020 with 3 flight weekly operated on their ATR 72-200.

In November 2020, the airline leased a former Thomas Cook Airbus A321 modified to carry cargo to operate nonstop flights to Dubai.

Destinations

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Expo flies to the following services to scheduled domestic and international destinations:

[H]	Hub
[F]	Future destination
^	Passenger + Cargo
[C]	Freighter aircraft only
[T]	Terminated destination

City	Country	IATA	ICAO	Airport	Refs
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	DHF	OMAM	Al Dhafra Air Base[C]
Ampara	Sri Lanka	ADP	VCCG	Ampara Airport
Anuradhapura	Sri Lanka	ACJ	VCCA	Anuradhapura Airport
Baghdad	Iraq	BGW	ORBI	Baghdad International Airport[C]
Bagram	Afghanistan	OAI	OAIX	Bagram Air Base[C]
Balad	Iraq		ORBD	Joint Base Balad[C]
Bangalore	India	BLR	VOBL	Bengaluru International Airport[C]
Bangkok	Thailand	BKK	VTBS	Suvarnabhumi Airport[T]
Batticaloa	Sri Lanka	BTC	VCCB	Batticaloa Airport
Beirut	Lebanon	BEY	OLBA	Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport[T]
Cairo	Egypt	CAI	HECA	Cairo International Airport[T]
Chennai	India	MAA	VOMM	Chennai International Airport[F]
Chittagong	Bangladesh	CGP	VGEG	Shah Amanat International Airport[T]
Coimbatore	India	CJB	VOCB	Coimbatore International Airport[T]
Colombo	Sri Lanka	CMB	VCBI	Bandaranaike International Airport[H]
Colombo	Sri Lanka	RML	VCCC	Ratmalana Airport[H]
Dhaka	Bangladesh	DAC	VGHS	Shahjalal International Airport[T]
Dubai	United Arab Emirates	DXB	OMDB	Dubai International Airport[C]
Erbil	Iraq	EBL	ORER	Erbil International Airport[C]
Gan Island	Maldives	GAN	VRMG	Gan International Airport[C]
Hambantota	Sri Lanka	HRI	VCRI	Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Herat	Afghanistan	HEA	OAHR	Herat International Airport[C]
Hingurakgoda	Sri Lanka			Hingurakgoda Airport
Hyderabad	India	HYD	VOHS	Rajiv Gandhi International Airport[T]
Islamabad	Pakistan	ISB	OPRN	Benazir Bhutto International Airport[T]
Jaffna	Sri Lanka	JAF	VCCJ	Jaffna International Airport
Jakarta	Indonesia	CGK	WIII	Soekarno–Hatta International Airport[T]|
Jalalabad	Afghanistan	JAA	OAJL	Jalalabad Airport[C]
Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	JED	OEJN	King Abdulaziz International Airport[T]
Kabul	Afghanistan	KBL	OAKB	Kabul International Airport[C]
Kalutara	Sri Lanka		VCCN	Katukurunda Airport
Kandahar	Afghanistan	KDH	OAKN	Kandahar International Airport[C]
Koggala	Sri Lanka	KCT	VCCK	Koggala Airport
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	KUL	WMKK	Kuala Lumpur International Airport[T]
Lahore	Pakistan	LHE	OPLA	Allama Iqbal International Airport[C]
Lashkar Gah	Afghanistan	OAZ	OAZI	Camp Bastion[C]
Malé	Maldives	MLE	VRMM	Velana International Airport[C]
Manila	Philippines	MNL	RPLL	Ninoy Aquino International Airport[T]
Mumbai	India	BOM	VABB	Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport[C]
Muscat	Oman	MCT	OOMS	Muscat International Airport[T]
Sharana	Afghanistan		OASA	Sharana Airstrip[C]
Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	SHJ	OMSJ	Sharjah International Airport[T]
Sigiriya	Sri Lanka			Sigiriya Airport
Singapore	Singapore	SIN	WSSS	Changi Airport[T]
Sulaymaniyah	Iraq	ISU	ORSU	Sulaimaniyah International Airport[C]
Tarin Kowt	Afghanistan	TII	OATN	Tarin Kowt Airport[C]
Thiruvananthapuram	India	TRV	VOTV	Trivandrum International Airport[C]
Thumrait	Oman	TTH	OOTH	RAFO Thumrait[C]
Tiruchirappalli	India	TRZ	VOTR	Tiruchirappalli Airport[T]
Trincomalee	Sri Lanka	TRR	VCCT	China Bay Airport
Vavuniya	Sri Lanka			Vavuniya Airport
Visakhapatnam	India	VTZ	VOVZ	Visakhapatnam Airport^
Weerawila	Sri Lanka	WRZ	VCCW	Weerawila Airport

Fleet

In June 2021, the FitsAir fleet includes the following aircraft:[3]

FitsAir

Aircraft	Total	Orders	Passengers (Economy)	Remarks
Airbus A320-200	3	0	-	4R-EXQ, 4R-EXS, 4R-EXR
Airbus A330-200P2F		1	-	To be delivered by the end of the year
Boeing 737-800BCF		1	-	To be delivered by the end of the year
Bombardier Dash 8 - Q400		4	-	Two aircraft to be delivered in March other two will delivered by September[4]
ATR 72-200	1	-	70	4R-EXN
Cessna Grand Caravan/EX	2	-	12	4R-EXP, 4R-EXO
Cessna 152	2	-	0	operated by flight academy, 4R-FAA, 4R-FAB
Total	7	-

Fleet history

FitsAir Mainline Historical Fleet

Aircraft	Introduced	Retired	Passengers	Notes
Antonov An-26	-	-
Fokker F27	3	0	0	4R-EXF[5] 4R-EXG[6] 4R-EXK[7]
Ilyushin IL-18	1	0	0	4R-EXD (Cargo)
Douglas DC-8-63CF	1	0	0	4R-EXJ
Cessna Grand Caravan/EX	2	0	12	4R-EXL
McDonnell Douglas MD-82(SF)	1	0	0	4R-EXM
A321-200	1	0		Wetleased (P2F Cargo)

Other Business

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, the airline wet-leased a Douglas DC-8-63CF 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. In August 2014 Dimonim Air (Indonesia) leased the sole ATR 72-200, (PK-HVH), belonging to Sri Lankan carrier Fits Air, for use on its internal Indonesian network.

External links

• FitsAir

References

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