{"id":1647,"date":"2026-05-22T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","slug":"special-notice-issued-for-passengers-travelling-to-katunayake-airport-due-to-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/22\/special-notice-issued-for-passengers-travelling-to-katunayake-airport-due-to-bad-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Notice Issued for Passengers Travelling to Katunayake Airport Due to Bad Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special notice has been issued for passengers travelling to Bandaranaike International Airport due to severe weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notice, areas surrounding the airport are currently experiencing flooding, and most roads leading to the airport have been inundated.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, passengers have been advised to arrive at the airport at least four hours before their scheduled flight departure time.<\/p>\n<p>Airport authorities have also requested travellers to use the Colombo\u2013Katunayake Expressway as much as possible to avoid delays caused by flooding.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the Naikanda and Kovinna areas near Katunayake Airport have been significantly affected by the flood situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special notice has been issued for passengers travelling to Bandaranaike International Airport due to severe weather conditions. According to the notice, areas surrounding the airport are currently experiencing flooding, and most roads leading to the airport have been inundated. As a result, passengers have been advised to arrive at the airport at least four &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}