Sri Lanka Aviation

**Max** · 28-04-2011, 01:09 PM

SriLankan Airlines gets second floatplane. SriLankan Air Taxi, the domestic arm of SriLankan Airlines, has acquired its second floatplane as island-wide operations expand and it plans to start daily flights to another town.

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1500132104

**CalgaryLankan** · 28-04-2011, 04:00 PM

Originally posted by Ojas

Sri Lankan Airlines has cancelled it's proposed Moscow Launch in December 2011. The flights are now removed from the GDS.

Does anyone knows the reason?? Anything to do with Aeroflot return to CMB in Nov 2011??

**Ojas** · 28-04-2011, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by Banuthev

Jetlite, a subsidery of Jet airways will resume flights to Colombo from 30 October 2011. Jet Airways also to continue its 2 daily flights between Colombo and Chennai.

With the resumption of Jetlite, Colombo- Chennai route receives 9.1 daily flights, which includes SriLankan, Air India, Air India Express, Jet Airways, Jetlite, Kingfisher Airlines and Spice Jet.

Jetlite planned schedule for Colombo

S20541 - 22:45 - 00:05 - B73G - MAA-CMB - Daily
S20542 - 01:05 - 02:45 - B73G - CMB-MAA - Daily

source : jetlite.com

Jetlite will not resume MAA - CMB. The flight has been removed from the GDS. I had all the way suspected that it was the last years inventory that wasn't updated, but I thought I'd wait till it is official.

**Max** · 29-04-2011, 01:13 PM

Sri Lanka Expo Aviation to revive domestic air service

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=688640706

**Galive** · 29-04-2011, 04:18 PM

Originally posted by Max

Sri Lankan Airlines to start its direct flights to Bangladesh

http://www.unbconnect.com/component/...-show/id-18878

It will be a risky for Srilankan Airlines. Only for point to point flight Mihin Lanka is ok and it got 70-78% load. If Srilankan Airlines wanna connect DAC once again then it should be more than point to point. Here in bangladesh there are hundreds of pax fly to SYD via SQ/TG etc. So if Srilankan Airlines can took the pax of Australia then it will be more easy for it to get market. But it should be one stop flight.

**Cayman** · 01-05-2011, 09:32 PM

Any idea what the fares on Sri Lankan Air Taxi are like?

Appreciate a link, if available.

**Srilankan1** · 02-05-2011, 11:43 AM

Originally posted by Cayman

Any idea what the fares on Sri Lankan Air Taxi are like?

Appreciate a link, if available.

http://www.srilankan.aero/destination-and-offers/airtaxi.html

**Cayman** · 02-05-2011, 12:34 PM

Thanks Srilankan1.

But the online booking engine does NOT work for air taxi flights.

**banuthev** · 02-05-2011, 09:33 PM

Originally posted by Cayman

Thanks Srilankan1.

But the online booking engine does NOT work for air taxi flights.

AirTaxi flight can not be booked online (random dates for Bentota and Koggala returns no results). So you may have to book a flight over the phone - http://www.srilankan.aero/contact-us...an-office.html

**lordvader** · 03-05-2011, 04:39 AM

Interview with Prasanna Wickramasuriya, Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) about the Hambantota International Airport, developing domestic airports and revamping the BIA:

Business Today

http://businesstoday.lk/cover_page.php?issue=237

Business Today Sri Lanka

**Cayman** · 03-05-2011, 09:20 AM

Thanks Banu.

Originally posted by Banuthev

AirTaxi flight can not be booked online (random dates for Bentota and Koggala returns no results). So you may have to book a flight over the phone - http://www.srilankan.aero/contact-us...an-office.html

**Max** · 04-05-2011, 12:16 PM

Sri Lanka national carrier boosts fleet. SriLankan Airlines, the island's state-run national carrier is boosting its short haul fleet to more closely fit the needs of its regional routes, with four new Airbus A320 aircraft ordered on operating leases, an official said. Gunawardena said three aircraft are leased from US-based Air Lease Corporation and the fourth from CIT also US based.

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1956040026

**lordvader** · 05-05-2011, 12:13 AM

According to 'The Island', UL will be returning two A320s and possibly acquire another A330/A340 by end year. Looks like UL is gradually replacing their A320s with brand new CFM engined aircraft. It will be very interesting to see what they will replace their A343s with!

**lordvader** · 05-05-2011, 12:13 AM

SriLankan Airlines to get new chief executive

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1943967799

Hopefully Kapila can run SriLankan properly (he did after all somehow turn a profit at Mihin). That said Manoj was an experienced airline executive and was actually getting round to expanding the airline. Time will tell if this is a good decision or not.

**Kflyer** · 05-05-2011, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by lordvader

SriLankan Airlines to get new chief executive

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1943967799

Hopefully Kapila can run SriLankan properly (he did after all somehow turn a profit at Mihin). That said Manoj was an experienced airline executive and was actually getting round to expanding the airline. Time will tell if this is a good decision or not.

Let me tell you this is a really bad decision, unless Mr. Manoj is being promoted to Chairman or an Executive Chairman. I was shocked to read this. Running a LCC and running a legacy carrier are two vastly different things. It needs someone with an in-depth knowledge of the industry, specially given that a full service carrier needs stringent revenue management and very different utilization of resources. Mr. Manoj had the knowledge for this and whatever the critics may say, IMHO he suits the role better. They could have adopted Mr. Kapila as the CMO given that he comes from a marketing background and that is an area where UL is currently not realising the full potential.
It is very saddening given that Mr. Manoj's efforts had just started paying off. An airline is not a bus company to be turned around in a matter of months - specially a FSC. And a USD49m loss is better than a 0.4m profit if the former is going to bring long term profitability.

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