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I absolutely agree that buying more fuel efficient aircraft is not going to magically compensate for the incompetence and mismanagement.
For an otherwise well run airline however, the increased leasing cost is easily set off by the potential savings in fuel costs and that is where I had disagreed with your assertion.
BTW, according to CGM, CMB-LHR distance is 4708 NM and with the obligatory 30-45 minutes London city tour before descending in to LHR, I thought 5,000 NM is a fair figure. Having said that, your figure of USD 1.3M a month saving is more plausible, as I did not account for the fact that the same aircraft cannot be rotated fast enough for the next trip the following day with westward block time exceeding 11 hours, so the actual utilization of the A359 would be less.Last edited by Cayman; 05-06-2014, 02:37 PM.Comment
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Now that we are opening this can of worms again, we all know the reason: MR's entourage wanted seats on a UL flight from LHR to CMB at short notice and the airline refused to bump off fare paying passengers.
This again goes to prove that my suggestion, that MR should have his own presidential aircraft (and in my opinion he deserves one, as the head of the state - and now even more so as the chairperson of the commonwealth-). It will be a lot cheaper for the country even if he gets his own A380, because the damage caused to the UL will then be avoided and UL could be run like a commercial enterprise.Comment
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Yes Cayman...We all know the reason why the management contract was not extended; but when you have internet trolls mis representing/skirting around facts like saying breaking away from EK was due to a simple and just ending of a term then I have a problem with that statement.Comment
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I agree with you. He should probably get an A319CJ so that way UL can earn revenue from maintaining it. And the best way to maintain UL is to sell it (or even part privatise) it to a local. Not sure if its true but I read in a paper that Harry J was interested a few years ago? Someone like him would be able to restructure UL well. And they would be more willing to look for foreign staff in areas where needed.Comment
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ශ්*රී ලංකන් නංවන්න සිව් පුද්ගල කමිටුවක්*
උදේශ සංජීව ගමගේ, මනෝඡ් අබයදීර
ශ්*රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවය ආර්ථික වශයෙන් ලාබදායී හා කාර්යක්*ෂම ගුවන් සේවයක්* බවට පත් කිරීම සඳහා යෝජනා සැලසුම් සහිත වාර්තාවක්* ලබාගැනීමට සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්*ය පියංකර ජයරත්න මහතා විසින් සිව් පුද්ගල කමිටුවක්* පත්කර තිබේ. අමාත්*යංශ ලේකම් රවීන්ද්*ර රුබේරු මහතා මෙහි සභාපති වන අතර ගණකාධිකාරිවරුන් වන ආවාර්ය රාජන් සාරා, රොහාන් ප්*රනාන්දු, මොහාන් රත්නායක යන මහත්වරු මෙම කමිටුවේ සෙසු සාමාජිකයන් වේ. විෂය භාර අමාත්*යවරයා ලෙස ශ්*රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවය කාර්යක්*ෂම කිරීම සඳහා තමාට උපදෙස්* හා සැලසුම් ලබාගැනීමෙහි අරමුණ බව "දිවයින" මේ පිළිබඳ කළ විමසුමකදී අමාත්*ය පියංකර ජයරත්න මහතා පැවසීය.
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Withdrawn Qatar Airways A321 A7-ADV Positions to Dublin Maintenance.30/05/2014. Withdrawn Qatar Airways A321 A7-ADV positioned Doha – Kuwait – Dublin for maintenance in the early hours of this morning as QR3263. The aircraft will be prepared for service with SriLankan Airlines. theqatarsource.com/http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a321-3274.htm
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Any other pics of A7-ADV? upcoming 4R-ABR ;-)Comment
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A7-ADV A321 this is a photo off the Qatar leaving Dublin, Ireland at approx 8.40PMOriginally posted by Serendib
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Airbus A350 XWB to enter service by end of 2014
The A350 XWB has successfully passed water ingestion tests (performed by flight test aircraft MSN004), confirming its ability to operate on wet runways. The A350 is scheduled for entry into service with Qatar Airways in Q4 2014.
http://www.reinforcedplastics.com/vi...y-end-of-2014/Comment
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