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{{Short description|Airline of Sri Lanka}}
{{unreferenced|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox airline
| airline = Simplifly
| logo = Simplifly logo.png
| logo_size = 200px
| alt = Simplifly logo
| IATA = 
| ICAO = DLK
| callsign = DECCAN LANKA
| aoc = 
| hubs = [[Ratmalana Airport]]
| founded = {{start date and age|2004|07|16}}
| fleet_size = 4
| destinations = 9
| parent = 
| focus_cities = 
| frequent_flyer = 
| headquarters = [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]]
| key_people = Suren Mirchandani (Founder)
| num_employees = 
| website =
}}
[[File:Millennium Airlines Bell 206B Jet Ranger.jpg|thumb|312x312px|Millennium Airlines [[Bell 206]]B Jet Ranger in a flight over Kotte, Sri Lanka.]]
'''Millennium Airlines''',  [[Doing business as|DBA]] '''Simplifly''' (formerly known as '''Deccan Aviation Lanka''') is a [[air charter|charter airline]] based in [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]] operating helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and seaplanes.

== History ==
Millennium Airlines was incorporated in July 2004 as Deccan Aviation Lanka, a private helicopter operator in partnership between [[Deccan Aviation]] of [[India]] and the Favourite Group of [[Sri Lanka]]. Suren Mirchandani was the first accountable manager and launched with Deccan Indian pilot Capt AP singh as the chief pilot.soon two Sri Lankan Pilots Sqn Ldr Rtd Kapila Ratnasekera and Capt Ravi Dharmawickrama from Deccan India replaced Indian Pilots.Initial helicopter was a Bell 206III Jetranger registered 4R-DLK.

By early 2007 the company started fixed-wing charter operations with the introduction of a leased [[Beechcraft 1900]] aircraft from JS Air Pakistan.

Millennium Airlines (Formerly Deccan Aviation Lanka) provides air taxi services to the tourism industry based in Colombo. In January 2008, Millennium Airlines launched an airborne medical evacuation service. In May 2011, it introduced the eight seater [[Gippsland GA8]] aircraft and expanded its fleet with the addition of the [[Cessna T206H]] amphibious aircraft in December 2012. In 2016 a pre-owned [[Robinson R66]] was introduced and soon the existing Bell 206BIII was sold overseas.

Deccan Aviation (India), now known as Deccan Charters Ltd, exited from the company in November 2011, after selling their equity to Singapore-based Millennium Aero Pte. Ltd, which prompted the company to rebrand as "Simplifly" with effect from 2013.

In 2019 April Millennium Airlines discontinued flying operations indefinitely for unknown reasons but retained the sole Robinson R66 in its fleets.

== Destinations ==

{|class="wikitable"
|  style="background:#fada5e; text-align:center;"|<sup>[H]</sup>||[[Airline hub|Primary Hub]]
|-
|  style="width:20pt; background:#dfd; text-align:center;"|<sup>‡</sup>||Secondary hub
|-
|  style="background:#ffff80; text-align:center;"|<sup>[F]</sup>||Future destination
|-
|  style="background:#ddd; text-align:center;"|<sup>[T]</sup> ||Terminated destination
|}

{|class="sortable wikitable toccolours"
! style="background:navy; color:white;"|City
! style="background:navy; color:white;"|Country
! style="background:navy; color:white; width:50px;"|IATA
! style="background:navy; color:white; width:50px;"|ICAO
! style="background:navy; color:white;"|Airport
! style="background:navy; color:white;" class="unsortable"|Refs
|-
|[[Anuradhapura]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|ACJ||align=center|VCCA||[[Anuradhapura Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Colombo]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|CMB||align=center|VCBI||[[Bandaranaike International Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Colombo]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|RML||align=center|VCCC|| style="background:#fada5e;"|[[Ratmalana Airport]]<sup>[H]</sup>||align=center|
|-
|[[Jaffna]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|JAF||align=center|VCCJ||[[Jaffna Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Kalutara]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|KTY||align=center|VCCN||[[Katukurunda Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Koggala]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|KCT||align=center|VCCK||[[Koggala Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Minneriya]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|MNH||align=center|-||Minneriya Air Base|| align="center" |
|-
|[[Sigiriya]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|GIU||align=center|VCCS||[[Sigiriya Airport]]||align=center|
|-
|[[Trincomalee]]||{{SRI}}||align=center|TRR||align=center|VCCT||[[China Bay Airport]]||align=center|
|}

== Current fleet ==
{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="4" style="margin:1em auto; border-collapse:collapse;text-align:center"
|+ '''Millennium Airlines Fleet'''
|- style="background:#e32636;"
!rowspan=2 style="width:125px" | <span style="color:white;">Aircraft</span>
!rowspan=2 | <span style="color:white;">In Service</span>
!rowspan=2 | <span style="color:white;">Orders</span>
!colspan=3 | <span style="color:white;">Passengers</span>
!rowspan=2 | <span style="color:white;">Notes</span>
|- style="background:#e32636;"
!style="width:25px;" | <abbr title="Business Class"> <span style="color:white;">J</span></abbr>
!style="width:25px;" | <abbr title="Economy Class"> <span style="color:white;">Y</span></abbr>
!style="width:25px;" | <span style="color:white;">Total</span>
|-
|[[Bell 206]]B Jet Ranger
|1
|0
|0
|4
|4
|4R-DLK
|-
|[[Robinson R66]]
|1
|0
|0
|4
|4
|4R-MAL
|-
|[[Bell 230]]
|0
|1
|0
|6
|6
|
|-
|[[Gippsland GA8]]
|1
|0
|0
|6
|6
|4R-DLZ
|-
|[[Cessna T206H]]
|1
|0
|0
|4
|4
|4R-HDA
|-
!Total
!4
!1
|colspan="4"|
|}

=== Aircraft operated ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border-collapse:collapse;  margin: 1em auto;"
|+
|-
!Aircraft
!Introduced
!Retired
|-
|[[Beechcraft 1900]]
|2005
|2006
|-
|[[Hawker Beechcraft]]
|2005
|2007
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Airlines of Sri Lanka}}

[[Category:Airlines of Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Airlines established in 2004]]
[[Category:Seaplane operators]]
[[Category:Sri Lankan companies established in 2004]]