Sri Lanka temporarily designated the Air Force base in Anuradhapura as an international airport on Sunday to facilitate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s departure from the country.
The Civil Aviation Authority said the move was formalized through a gazette notification issued on Friday, granting one-day international airport status to the military airfield.
Modi and his core security team departed from Anuradhapura to Rameswaram in southern India under the special clearance. Immigration and emigration officials were deployed to process the departure.
Under Sri Lankan aviation regulations, aircraft cannot depart to foreign destinations from domestic airports unless those airports are officially designated as international through a government-issued gazette notification. (Newswire)
