Connaissance de Ceylan Ltd., a Travel and tourism business promoting global tourism and friendship by uniting all branches of the travel and tourism industry from hotels, airlines, travel technology, arranged for  a group of 130 French travellers to fly to Koggala from Kandy on Six Mi-17 helicopters of the SLAF's commercial arm 'Helitours' this morning  26th March 2014.

This is the first time that Helitours deployed 6 Mi-17 helicopters in a single commercial flight operation.  With this flight, Helitours has recorded 2423 chartered flights since the resumption of this service on 21st July 2009.