Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as Airplanes, Helicopters, Hot air balloons,Blimps, Gliders, Hang gliding, Parachuting or anything else that can sustain flight.
Air travel can be separated into two general classifications: * National/Domestic * International flights
National/Domestic Flights
Flights from one point to another within the same country are called domestic flights. A domestic airport is an airport which handles only domestic flights or flights within the same country. Domestic airports don't have customs and immigration facilities and are therefore incapable of handling flights to or from a foreign airport. These airports normally have short runways which are sufficient to handle short/medium haul aircraft and regional air traffic. They have in many countries not had any security check / metal detector, but such checks have been added in recent years.
In Sri Lanka there are numerous internal domestic flights between Colombo, Jaffna, Anuradhapura, Kandy, Negombo and other major cities with good domestic network of airports in Sri Lanka.
There is an extensive domestic flight network operated by the SriLankanAirlines (National Airline) and other Airlines.
Travel time between Colombo and Kandy has been reduced to just 30 minutes with the launch of a SriLankan Air Taxi daily scheduled