Sri Lankan Airlines is set to begin offering new codeshares with fellow Oneworld member Finnair.

From June 2 Finnair’s AY code will be added to select Sri Lankan Airlines services between the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and Frankfurt, Paris, London, Rome, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

Sri Lankan Airlines’ UL code will be added to select Finnair services between Helsinki and Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen.

Sri Lankan Airlines, head of commercial operations, Mohamed Fazeel said: “Sri Lankan Airlines is very pleased to be partnering Finnair which is one of the world’s leading airlines.

“We are confident that this partnership with Finnair will expand Sri Lankan’s reach to the Scandinavian region; thereby increasing Scandinavian tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka and facilitate more visitors to the Scandinavian region from Sri Lanka and South Asia.

“Sri Lankan Airlines will continue to partner many other Oneworld member airlines in order to provide more direct connections to Colombo.”