Colombo · CMB · Sri Lanka's island gateway · June 2026
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport handled 10.2 million passengers in 2025 across three terminals. SriLankan Airlines and FitsAir hub here. Dubai is its busiest route. Passenger traffic peaked at 10,798,669 in 2018, then collapsed to 2,023,941 in 2020 due to COVID-19. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport advertising spans from a few cents per play on concourse and gate screens to premium arrivals-hall LED and spectacular digital walls. On Blindspot, Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.38, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the departures bank in the morning, the security and concourse dwell through the day, the arrivals halls when the long-haul flights land.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and passenger flow, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The integrated-terminal check-in concourse funnels every departing traveler past premium digital media before the gates.
Screening for Terminal 1, Terminal 3 and Terminal 2 holds a phone-down queue, and SriLankan Airlines and FitsAir connection times keep it busy through the day.
SriLankan Airlines, Emirates, Qatar Airways and IndiGo passengers wait out boarding dwell across the integrated-terminal gate holdrooms.
Reclaim belts and the arrivals corridor catch a captive, recently landed audience of Sri Lankan and long-haul travelers.
The coach and taxi stands repeat your brand on the Katunayake Expressway run toward the Lotus Tower and Galle Face Green.
The Colombo duty-free and the SriLankan Airlines lounges reach a higher-spend Sri Lankan and long-haul traveler before the flight.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport's media owners, Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) media, JCDecaux Airport, Eye Airports network among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a single gate screen to a full arrivals-hall takeover, Blindspot puts Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport's digital out-of-home on one map, each screen priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter airside and landside:
Large-format digital across check-in islands and departures, where every traveler dwells before security.
Captive screens along the security and passport queues, minutes of guaranteed attention per passenger.
Concourse and gate-lounge screens reaching seated, relaxed travelers with long airside dwell.
High-dwell arrivals and baggage-claim placements as passengers wait, the airport's longest captive window.
Boarding-bridge and gate-side panels in the final moment before the flight.
Iconic hall and atrium spectaculars for brand-statement reach across the whole terminal.
Location insights
Colombo Bandaranaike International is Sri Lanka's island gateway, set at Katunayake north of the capital and the home base of the national carrier SriLankan Airlines. A single integrated passenger terminal handles every international arrival and departure, its traffic climbing back hard as tourism recovers, while the long-delayed Terminal 2 rises alongside to lift capacity toward 15 million a year. Mornings and late nights carry the dense Gulf and subcontinent banks toward Dubai, Doha, Chennai and the Middle East, midday holds the connecting and long-haul dwell, and the arrivals halls and the coach stands fill onto the Katunayake Expressway toward the Lotus Tower and Galle Face Green. One busy terminal, one Sri Lankan and long-haul audience. Buy the banks, not the dead hours.
Departures and check-in fill in the early-morning and late-afternoon banks. Book those hours and your frequency against business travelers climbs for the same budget.
Gates and the gate holdrooms hold seated, relaxed travelers for 60–90 minutes, long windows where dwell, not rush, does the work.
Arrivals fills as long-haul flights land in banks, high-value international passengers with time to read. Swap creative to match who just arrived.
Location intelligence summary
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport doesn't have a rush hour; it has flight banks. Departures peak in the morning, long-haul arrivals land in waves, and between them travelers dwell for 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. The buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the banks when your audience is captive, skip the dead hours.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch / premium | Departures + Transit | All day · long-haul banks |
| Business travelers | Departures, Gates | Weekday 6–10 AM · 4–8 PM |
| Long-dwell layovers | Gates, Arrivals | 10 AM–8 PM |
| International arrivals | Arrivals, Retail | Aligned to long-haul landing banks |
| Duty-free & retail | Departures, Gates | Departures peaks |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Security-line passengers read in seconds; gate-side travelers dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: the national carrier's connecting travelers, since Bandaranaike International Airport is the hub of SriLankan Airlines and total passenger traffic reached 7.5 million by late 2025, and apparel, tea and fisheries exporters, whose cargo moves through the airport's freight terminal (over 190,000 metric tons in 2024) to markets across South Asia, the Middle East and Europe (see DOOH for B2B).
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Departures hall pillars & LED | from ~$0.38 per play | $100 buys hourly departures-hall slots | every departing traveler through the integrated-terminal concourse |
| Gate concourse & holdroom screens | from ~$0.38 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated, Sri Lankan and long-haul traveler attention before boarding |
| City transit | from ~$0.36 per play | $100 buys repeat exposure on the city link | arrivals and visitors riding the expressway into Colombo |
| Arrivals & baggage reclaim | from ~$0.36 per play | $100 buys belt-side reclaim time | a captive, recently landed audience of Sri Lankan and long-haul travelers |
| Departures-hall spectacular | custom | flagship integrated-terminal takeover | dominant share of voice over the whole departures core |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on departures-hall spectacular than on departures hall pillars & LED), the zone (Departures hall carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Concourse test
The integrated-terminal gate holdrooms across a late-night Gulf departure bank
Multi-zone airport push
Departures hall, security lanes, the international gates and the arrivals corridor together
CMB flagship takeover
Dominant share of voice across the departures core and the integrated terminal
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) media, JCDecaux Airport, Eye Airports network among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport handled 10.2 million passengers in 2025. The audience is the reason to buy it: air passengers are captive, comparatively affluent, and hard to reach through most channels, and they spend meaningful time in the terminal with attention to spare between check-in and boarding. Dwell is the asset. Unlike a roadside screen read in two seconds, a gate or arrivals placement gets minutes rather than moments, which is why airport placements hold up for brand and considered-purchase messages rather than short reminders. SriLankan Airlines and FitsAir both hub here, which concentrates connecting traffic through the same core. Because the screens are bookable by the hour, you can match spend to the flight banks that carry your audience instead of paying for a flat month.
Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport zones are scored separately for visibility, dwell time and footfall, because the best placement depends on which of those you actually need. Departures hall guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. Security & checkpoint holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Concourse & gate holdrooms gives the longest relaxed attention, with passengers seated and waiting. Each zone shows its own per-play price and live availability, so you can pair a high-reach zone with a high-dwell one rather than guessing at a single best spot. Arrivals & baggage reclaim catches a recently landed audience with phones back out. Lounges & duty-free reaches a higher-spend traveler before the flight.
Yes. On Blindspot every Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum, so you can buy only the morning departures bank or the long-haul arrivals windows that match your audience.
The airport's media is run by operators such as Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) media, JCDecaux Airport, Eye Airports network; Blindspot aggregates the bookable digital screens onto one map, priced per play.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than the usual airport rate card suggests, because you are buying plays rather than a fixed package. In Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Concourse & gate holdrooms, or a concentrated burst on Departures hall and Security & checkpoint through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.38, the arithmetic is visible before you commit. It will not buy a month of an arrivals-hall spectacular, and that is the trade: hourly, per-play buying lets a small budget own the specific windows when the passengers you want are actually in the terminal, instead of thinning the same money across empty overnight hours.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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