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  • Originally posted by Haleef View Post
    So then no more airline for this country isn't it?
    You could start another airline at a tiny fraction of the cost associated with keeping UL running in its current form.

    It could also be 100% private - no risk for the taxpayer. If there is a viable market someone will step in.

    Run it like a business - free of corruption and with the proper safeguards in place.

    Hire people who know what they are doing instead of the current corrupt/useless government appointees.
    Always fly a stable approach - it's the only stability you'll find this business

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    • Originally posted by ejanson65 View Post
      You could start another airline at a tiny fraction of the cost associated with keeping UL running in its current form.

      It could also be 100% private - no risk for the taxpayer. If there is a viable market someone will step in.

      Run it like a business - free of corruption and with the proper safeguards in place.

      Hire people who know what they are doing instead of the current corrupt/useless government appointees.
      SriLankan Airlines continues to descend

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      • Winter season starts end of this month. Austrian is resuming Colombo flights on the 25-Oct and Royal Flight is resuming on the 27-Oct. Both flights will be operated onboard B767. KLM, Thompson etc.. would resume from Nov. Does anyone have the list of seasonal flights operating in Winter 2017?

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        • CMB - MEL UL flights - why are they using A332 and NOT A333. Only inaugural flight is marked as A333...
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          • Originally posted by umedhah View Post
            CMB - MEL UL flights - why are they using A332 and NOT A333. Only inaugural flight is marked as A333...
            That's because of the difference in lease costs - the route will definitely lose money using an A333.

            It looks like they are hoping the lower lease costs of the A332 will make the route profitable. I don't think this will be a money maker as there is no market to support 5 flights/week.

            A333 on the inaugural flight because it will be loaded with Politicians and other freeloading Scum.
            Always fly a stable approach - it's the only stability you'll find this business

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            • Originally posted by ejanson65 View Post
              That's because of the difference in lease costs - the route will definitely lose money using an A333.

              It looks like they are hoping the lower lease costs of the A332 will make the route profitable. I don't think this will be a money maker as there is no market to support 5 flights/week.

              A333 on the inaugural flight because it will be loaded with Politicians and other freeloading Scum.
              Agreed!

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              • Originally posted by ejanson65 View Post
                That's because of the difference in lease costs - the route will definitely lose money using an A333.

                It looks like they are hoping the lower lease costs of the A332 will make the route profitable. I don't think this will be a money maker as there is no market to support 5 flights/week.

                A333 on the inaugural flight because it will be loaded with Politicians and other freeloading Scum.
                Why can't Sri Lankan directly purchase aircrafts?

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                • Isn't reaching goals a CEO's job?

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                  • Originally posted by SLD View Post
                    Why can't Sri Lankan directly purchase aircrafts?
                    Because they don't have money to finance

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                    • Originally posted by SLD View Post
                      Isn't reaching goals a CEO's job?
                      yes goals...but bonus when company in RED NO

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                      • Originally posted by Speedbird View Post
                        yes goals...but bonus when company in RED NO
                        There are 190 employees of the national carrier Srilankan who draw a salary of more than Rupees one million while four top level mangers draw a salary of Rs. four million each, Janatha Vimukthi Peramauna (JVP) MP and Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts (COPE) Chairman Sunil Handunetti said yesterday. ..

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                        • Finally someone tells the truth!

                          Mr Handunetti told a media briefing that the national carrier cannot survive any longer. “COPE at times advices the state enterprises on how they could be turned into profit making ventures but it is unable to think of any advice for the national carrier,”
                          Not sure why another investigation is needed (at least the talk of one...) - they already have enough information in the Weliamuna Commission Report to prosecute those who have been named....
                          Always fly a stable approach - it's the only stability you'll find this business

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                          • Airbus representatives to visit Sri Lanka to negotiate termination of A350-900

                            SriLankan Airlines expects representatives of Airbus to visit the country to negotiate the termination of four A350-900 Airbus aircraft – the second part of the $2.5 billion re-fleeting program initiated under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the national carrier, a top official said. ..


                            SriLankan CEO Ratwatte Blunders On Despite Airline Failing European Safety Audit

                            Last edited by Serendib; 07-10-2017, 06:33 PM.

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                            • SriLankan Airlines gets lifeline from Treasury

                              In a last ditch attempt to maintain SriLankan Airlines till a foreign partner is found, the government has decided to infuse Rs.13.2 billion as a loan from two state banks, Bank of Ceylon (BOC) and the People’s Bank (PB).

                              This came after a directive from the President to the airline’s board of directors to turn it around or depart at a meeting in June in which the management was heavily criticised on management issues.

                              The President has given them time to prove results till last month (September). But no progress has been made up to now, official sources revealed.

                              In the meantime, the Government approved a proposal by State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir Hashim seeking necessary funds from the Treasury for this purpose, official sources said.

                              The Treasury has issued two letters of guarantee to the PB and the BOC to provide a credit facility of Rs. 6.75 billion and Rs. 6.45 billion, respectively to meet the airline’s financial requirements.

                              In March 2016, the then Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake directed the Treasury to provide funding to the ailing national carrier for six months, a senior Finance Ministry official said adding that this period lapsed in September last year.

                              The Cabinet also approved a proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in April 2016 to allow the Treasury to take over the airline’s total debt of Rs. 461 billion and set up a joint venture to operate it profitably.

                              Minister Hashim, who is responsible for SriLankan, has been entrusted with the task of devising new strategies to turn around the loss-making airline within this period and rescue it from its deep financial mess.

                              The attempts made to restructure the national carrier under a public private partnership basis and the process of finding a new investor in the past 12 months has been unsuccessful up to now.

                              The airline has submitted a restructuring plan recently to the government to reduce its debts and achieve breakeven point in the short-to medium term.

                              The plan is to downsise the group while operating its ground handling and engineering as separate entities under separate managements, and purchasing fuel at competitive prices, etc.

                              The accumulated loss of the airline had risen to over Rs.170 billion, he said adding that it has recorded a profit of Rs.4.4 billion in 2008 and thereafter suffered heavy losses amounting to Rs. 107 billion under the administration of the then chairman Nishantha Wickremasinghe, brother-in-law of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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