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i think srilankan airlines shoul buy new aircraft from airbus
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i think srilankan airlines shoul buy new aircraft from boeing
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Last edited by kennny15; 25-09-2014, 07:45 PM.Comment
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SriLankan's second A321 already been re-registered as 4R-ABR. We may expect the delivery flight of 4R-ABR every day now.
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British Airways is adjusting planned operations on London Gatwick – Male – Colombo route, which will be suspended from 29MAR15. Male is to return to BA network in Winter 2015/2016 season while Colombo service will cancelled permanently.
Previously planned 3 weekly Boeing 777-200ER operation for Summer 2015 season as follow:
BA2043 LGW1930 – 0945+1MLE1100+1 – 1300+1CMB 777 357
BA2042 CMB1430 – 1530MLE1645 – 2325LGW 777 146
source : AIRLINEROUTE NET
Any chance British Airways operating LONDON - COLOMBO - SYDNEY route?Comment
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No it won't work, as the current BA via SIN banks on traffic from PER, MEL, BNE who are brought into SIN by QF. Plus BA has multiple and daily flight to DEL, MAA, BOM etc in India which means that using CMB as Indian feeder passengers via UL will also wont make sense. Plus BA will be restarting KUL shortly and use MH feeder who are also part of Oneword. CMB-SYD makes no sense at all.Comment
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No chance in hell. The yields, for BA will be atrocious.
I am not surprised that BA is pulling out of CMB yet again. It was doomed to fail given that it was a low frequency service with a stop over, and from Gatwick.
Given that this is merely an extension of the existing MLE service, where 90% of the capacity was dedicated to, that means the loads to CMB could only be minimal.
The connections from LHR onto North America were missed from this operation. I know UL offer connections through LHR onwards to North America with their oneworld partners, but I feel that if BA had operated this to LHR and not LGW, the results would be better, given the far superior product BA can offer.
Hopefully this might give a chance for KLM to re-enter the market.
Sri Lankan tourism is currently booming, and the departure of BA will not create any dire impact.Comment
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European airlines really need their J cabins full to make these flights profitable - hard to get people coming to SL on holiday to shell out that kind of money when their competition is EK/EY/QR which have some of the best premium cabins in the sky and can also bank on frequent short flights to their hubs.
It would be interesting to see if KLM can make their way in - one thing we don't have from SL is great connections to Canada. I suspect with OneWorld UL will have codeshares with onward connections from LHR using BA.Comment
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This is partially true; but there are more. Operating into CMB is now very expensive compared to MAA. AASL is completely mismanaged and CMB is now cross subsidizing HRI. Landing costs are very high and Jet A1 very expensive. almost at same price point compared to MLE. Previously flights operating MLE stopped in CMB just for fuel uplifting; today when the price point is same there is no need for the said flight to operate to CMB as well unless there are significant passenger uplifting from CMB as well. Remember AASL is a monopoly in SL. so they can command any price they want. but airlines are not interested in CMB if they do not see significant business/PAX loads.
Yes thats true CAA SL/AASL is now run buy political whims...end of the day flying customer pays a premium for the flight ticket.Comment
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Well even if UL is doing so ... there is nothing wrong with it... the Canadian Government does similar thing to protect Air Canada. SQ operated YVR (Vancouver) via ICN and were able to get only 3 slots a weeks. Repeated attempts to increase slots were denied to protect AC and SQ dropped route. (Both SQ and AC are members of Star Alliance). Also EK at the moment is unable to operate more than 3 flights a week to Toronto from DXB eventhough there is demand. Again AC and Canadian Govt Restrictions.Comment
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There is a difference SQ/EK/EY and QR are requesting more frequencies. That is a change in bilateral agreement between Singapore & Canada; UAE & Canada. EK/EY and QR want to dump excess seats. Where as Canadian government especially mentioned to UAE and QR governments that 80+% are transit PAXs. No one in Canada want to protect heavily unionized AC. But what ever said it is matter of time before UAE and Qatari bilateral changes to open skies. Protecting "national" carrier is old business model. which does stand today where it is more focused towards protecting the customer; which legislation are enacted as we speak.
now lets look at UL operating to LHR. where as only UL is operating from LHR imagine if the British Govt. requested UL to operate CMB flight from Stansted. No UK Government/CAA would not do that it will let the airport operators within UK to determine the slots and cost within the framework of bilateral.Comment
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Not a good news is it? In Aug UL was late due to ABG left the fleet and ABQ and ALB were sent for maint/cabin upgrade. On the 23rd Aug, KUL flight was very late as ALD returned to base due to hydraulic problem. Also president took ADE with him to SEZ and DEL for his entourage.Comment
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