Before we talk about what happened to the former Sri Lankan Carrier Air Ceylon, it is necessary to understand a little bit about the history of Sri Lanka. Located in the Indian Ocean southeast of India across the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, the island nation of Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million people.
Historically, the Greeks referred to the island as Taprobane, while the Arabs called it Serendib. When the first Europeans arrived in 1505, the Portuguese explorers…