Sri Lanka Aviation

[banuthev]

Guys, Let's see if you can guess the name of the middle east based airline that going to operate charter flights to Colombo on the 19th and 26th March 2015

[Sali]

Guys, Let's see if you can guess the name of the middle east based airline that going to operate charter flights to Colombo on the 19th and 26th March 2015

Mahan Air

[banuthev]

Mahan Air

That's correct. Mahan Air to serve Tehran-Colombo with charter flights on the 19th and 26th March 2015 onboard Airbus A310-300. It must be the reason to transport Persian tourists to Sri Lanka. In the past Mahan Air operated schedule flights to Colombo from both Tehran and Bandar Abbas. Wish if they again resume the schedule flights to our Sri Lankan capital?

IKA-CMB-IKA - 17:00 - 19:30 - THU - W51134/5 - A313 - OPS 19 & 26 MAR - MAHAN AIR

[ejanson65]

Kapila has left the building!

Someone was nice enough to forward me a copy of his farewell letter.

Good riddance! Hopefully the rest of the clowns will be kicked out in the coming days.

[lordvader]

Kapila has left the building!

Someone was nice enough to forward me a copy of his farewell letter.

Good riddance! Hopefully the rest of the clowns will be kicked out in the coming days.

Any idea who's replacing him? Peter Hill?

[Serendib]

Any idea who's replacing him? Peter Hill?

SriLankan Airlines CEO resigns



Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena has resigned from his position yesterday.

The CEO had handed over his letter of resignation minutes after Senior Lawyer J.C. Weliamuna presented his first report on the national airline to Ports and Aviation Minister Arjuna Ranatunga.

The Ministry appointed a four- member committee to look into alleged malpractices and irregularities that occurred in SriLankan Airlines in the recent past. The committee was chaired by Attorney-at-Law J.C. Weliamuna, while U.H. Palihakkara, B.A.W. Abeywardena and M.K. Bandara served as committee members.

- See more at: http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/sri....xqisY6sB.dpuf

[Serendib]

4R-ALN to leave Toulouse tonight with an estimated arrival time tomorrow at Colombo at 05.45 utc

When is our 3rd UL A333 (4R-ALN) and 1st MJ A319 (4R-MRF) due ?

[Serendib]

@anthonklk - Is it true Mihin Lanka to cancel Gaya flights and SriLankan to start flights to Visakapatnam?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SriLankan_Airlines_destinations

[anthonylk]

@anthonklk - Is it true Mihin Lanka to cancel Gaya flights and SriLankan to start flights to Visakapatnam?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SriLank...s_destinations

Here is the article...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Uncertainty-over-extension-of-Air-India-flights/articleshow/46507291.cms

[Cayman]

Air India has been declared "sick" and slated to be shut down by the Indian government.

Now that the new administration in SL is taking cues from India, why not follow suit and save a fortune in public money?

[skyline]

That's correct. Mahan Air to serve Tehran-Colombo with charter flights on the 19th and 26th March 2015 onboard Airbus A310-300. It must be the reason to transport Persian tourists to Sri Lanka. In the past Mahan Air operated schedule flights to Colombo from both Tehran and Bandar Abbas. Wish if they again resume the schedule flights to our Sri Lankan capital?

IKA-CMB-IKA - 17:00 - 19:30 - THU - W51134/5 - A313 - OPS 19 MAR, 26 MAR, 2 APR - MAHAN AIR

These are most probably vacation charters for the long new year holiday (Norooz in Persian, 20 March- 02 April). There are lots of extra flights to Turkey and UAE as well during this time.

[skyline]

Thanks for the link. Ironically what he states in the article is mostly right. MJ needs scale (i.e. 10+ aircraft to be profitable). And his choice to swap Boeing for Airbus was a good decision too. Not sure why he wasn't given room to implement this plan?

A airline whether it is LCC or not require aircrafts to manage its operations. It should have at least the minimum number of aircrafts. All depends on the operational routes and the passenger load factor. LCC should have their own strategies to survive in market.However, this should not be a burden to our national flag carrier.

[skyline]

SriLankan to start flights to Visakapatnam?

a team of officials of Sri Lankan Airlines visited Vizag in 2012 to explore the possibility of flying out of here. They should be able to target on cargo as well as passengers to Far east and gulf.

are there any international airlines flying to Vizag?

[banuthev]

A airline whether it is LCC or not require aircrafts to manage its operations. It should have at least the minimum number of aircrafts. All depends on the operational routes and the passenger load factor. LCC should have their own strategies to survive in market.However, this should not be a burden to our national flag carrier.

SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka better focus only on the profitable routes. I can see SriLankan is maintaining the non profitable routes to Europe because one of our major markets is Europe. I think SriLankan should drop Rome and serve Milan instead and also unprofitable pilgrim flights to Gaya and Varanasi should be cancelled. SriLankan's cabin and service needs to be upgraded.

[R.Thivaharan]

Very true and I think they should privatise MJ