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  • Originally posted by banuthev View Post

    Currently aircraft fleet at UL is not fully operational. I wonder why UL shouldn't sublease the aircraft to Fitsair, Fly Lankan Asia and Spark Air. Isn't that better for UL instead of grounding aircraft? May be Fitsair and Startup airlines can negotiate for lease with lower rate. But may be in the current market there are plenty of aircraft available in the much cheaper leases. But I am thinking from UL point of view and saving the national airline.

    Please share your opinion about this.
    Agreed100%... However I did hear from a source at UL that most of the A320 narrow body fleet as well as the NEO's are not in fully operational condition (maybe still in storage) I also heard that UL are paying a very high leasing fee for most of the newer aircraft and operating some of them aren't profitable... I always question as to why UL decided to lease out 2 A320neo's which do not serve any purpose and should have opted for either the A220 or Turboprop aircraft to serve lower yielding sectors to India and Maldives and also for domestic flights... I think the other airlines are positioned to make better calls and management decisions rather than having to negotiate with UL which i feel would be a waste of time
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    • Originally posted by Aaqib View Post

      Agreed100%... However I did hear from a source at UL that most of the A320 narrow body fleet as well as the NEO's are not in fully operational condition (maybe still in storage) I also heard that UL are paying a very high leasing fee for most of the newer aircraft and operating some of them aren't profitable... I always question as to why UL decided to lease out 2 A320neo's which do not serve any purpose and should have opted for either the A220 or Turboprop aircraft to serve lower yielding sectors to India and Maldives and also for domestic flights... I think the other airlines are positioned to make better calls and management decisions rather than having to negotiate with UL which i feel would be a waste of time
      Totally agree ?. UL management only make decisions as per the heads of the government who mainly into commissions
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      • Spark Air to commence flight operations
        The new local Airline, Spark Air has requested official permission to commence flight operations in Sri Lanka. The airline has had lengthy discussions with Mr. Prasanna Ranatunga Minister of Tourism and respective officers today (15th) about conducting flights.

        From the discussions held today, they have agreed to begin flights very soon here in Sri Lanka.

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        • Originally posted by Serendib View Post
          Spark Air to commence flight operations
          The new local Airline, Spark Air has requested official permission to commence flight operations in Sri Lanka. The airline has had lengthy discussions with Mr. Prasanna Ranatunga Minister of Tourism and respective officers today (15th) about conducting flights.

          From the discussions held today, they have agreed to begin flights very soon here in Sri Lanka.
          Any idea why they had a lengthy discussion with Minister? Does he know anything about aviation?

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          • The temporary travel restriction introduced by the Government on travels originating from the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka on account of the new Covid -19 Variant in the UK has been lifted with immediate effect.

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            Any chance more UL flights to London? any news about BA to Cmb?
            Last edited by Serendib; 17-02-2021, 02:42 PM.

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            • Originally posted by Serendib View Post

              Any chance more UL flights to London? any news about BA to Cmb?
              Makes no difference, people in UK banned from leaving the country !

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              • Originally posted by Azamh View Post

                Any idea why they had a lengthy discussion with Minister? Does he know anything about aviation?
                Do you know which is parent company for Sparkair?

                Please find the list of directors of Sparkair:
                http://airsoc.com/articles/view/id/5...to-lease-a330s

                I wonder these start up airlines have links with politician like Lankan Cargo B727 was linked with Sajin Vaas as per below news link : https://www.newsfirst.lk/2015/03/02/...mp-sajin-vaas/

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                • Originally posted by Abeetha-Flyer View Post

                  Wizz Abu Dhabi has already ordered more new A321 neos as they are looking forward to expand their service to Indian subsidiaries and Africa apart of the current destinations from AUH base.

                  As far as I know Rotana was mainly doing charter flights and it wasn’t going very well.

                  It shows 31,745 LKR to go from CMB to AUH next month. Hopefully Sri Lankan will be commencing operations soon. There is no any updates yet regarding Air Arabia Abu Dhabi.
                  Wizzair Abu Dhabi plans London: https://www.aviationbusinessme.com/a...ndon-route?amp
                  Last edited by Serendib; 18-02-2021, 04:43 PM.

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                  • Originally posted by Serendib View Post
                    Will it give good connection to UK if Wizzair announce Colombo? CAA of Sri Lanka said there are plenty of LCC are interested in flying to Colombo. Hope Wizzair is one of them.

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                    • Originally posted by banuthev View Post

                      Will it give good connection to UK if Wizzair announce Colombo? CAA of Sri Lanka said there are plenty of LCC are interested in flying to Colombo. Hope Wizzair is one of them.
                      It will be an effective operator if they start of flying to Colombo from Abu Dhabi as it will be even better with UK connections. Wizz has been saying “they will expand their operations further more towards Asia”since the beginning of its operations in AUH. I believe that Wizz will be operating to Colombo very near future..I’m looking forward to operate that inaugural flight as the one and only Sri Lankan who works for Wizz.

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                      • Neos Air starts Milan Malpensa -Colombo direct flights from 5th March to 24th September with B787-9.
                        Every Friday departure from Milan and return on Saturday.
                        23kg+23kg on hold baggage and 8kg hand baggage.
                        600Eur one way ticket MXP-CMB and 350Eur one way CMB-MXP
                        Last edited by AirCeylon; 21-02-2021, 09:37 AM.

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                        • Singapore Airlines is going to increase Colombo flights from 3 to 7 weekly from 1 May 2021. Additional four weekly flights are going to be operated by B737.


                          The group’s Colombo route is currently a three times weekly Singapore Airlines Airbus A350 Regional operation. The firm schedule from 1st May 2021 has not yet been finalised, but it currently shows that three times weekly Airbus A350 Regional overnight operation will continue as SQ468/469, supplemented by four times weekly daytime service with these Boeing 737-800s as SQ464/465

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                          • Sri Lanka has submitted 11 travel destinations that the national carrier — SriLankan Airlines would like to operate in India under this program to the Civil Aviation Authority of India and Embassy of India. These destinations include; Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Kochi, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta and Tiruchirappalli.

                            “We are hopeful that the necessary approval will be considered soon by the Indian authorities to commence the project,” Chanaka told the Daily FT.

                            Source:FT.LK

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                            • Originally posted by Aaqib View Post

                              This is a really good move! I’m a huge supporter of the LCC concept and yes it would definitely affect pax volume to and form KWI mainly the yield on KU... the same example can been seen in the case of Oman Air as a result of Salam Air beginning operations

                              Flew WY recently and the MCT-CMB sector had around 30 pax in total... upon clarifying as to why this was as i too was pretty surprised why the load factor was so low, the answer was “because of Salam Air”

                              I still feel that Mihin Lanka should have been around

                              Similarly Wizz Air Abu Dhabi (if so they begin operations to AUH) would negatively affect Etihad

                              Emirates is alright on the DXB sector as Fly Dubai is their subsidiary
                              KU is going to increase CMB flights from 20 March 2021

                              Thursdays - B777-300ER
                              Saturdays - A320neo (new flight from 20 March 2021)

                              It's going to be competition between SriLankan Airlines, Jazeera and Kuwait Airways on the Colombo-Kuwait. Each of these Airline is having twice weekly on this route.

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                              • LOT Polish Airlines to start direct flights from Warsaw to Colombo.
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