SriLankan Airlines treats young monks to a special airport tour

Together with Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka,) SriLankan Airlines introduced smiles to the faces of young Buddhist monks or Samaneras with a special guided tour of the Bandaranaike International Airport.

This occasion is a part of the lead-up to SriLankan Airlines’ forty fifth anniversary on Sunday, 1st September.

Made up of monks aged 5 and older from the Ganewatta Purana Rajamaha Viharaya in Waskadubedda, Deldoova, Kalutara, the tour group was accompanied by a number of Venerable Theros, in addition to volunteers from SriLankan Airlines. 

A day on the airport

During the tour, the young monks had been guided by means of the airport the place officers defined varied floor operations. They additionally had the chance to board a SriLankan Airlines’ Airbus A320 parked on the tarmac, giving every young monk their first expertise of each the airport surroundings, in addition to an plane’s inside.

In protecting with spiritual traditions, the group of Samaneras and Theros had been supplied dana, a special type of almsgiving, and pirikara within the airport’s Silk Route Arrival Lounge. 

SriLankan Airlines employees volunteers, members of the airline’s senior administration group, and senior managers from Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) had been all available to take part throughout the dana ceremony.