New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- : India is very important to Srilankan Airlines, the CEO of the aircraft company Richard Nuttall said, adding that New Delhi helped the country's airlines running amid challenges brought on by the economic crisis.

In an interview with ANI, Nuttall said, "Things like wellness and ayurveda and adventure tourism are on the growth worldwide and Sri Lanka provides them in spades so the tourism will come back. But the third leg that we are very strong in is all of the secondary cities in India particularly going east so if you want to go from those cities going west you have got all the gulf carriers and you have got a lot of competition some of it is frankly a different economic model."

"But going east we are uniquely po...