4R-ALN has been towed to the Engineering Hangar for inspections before first revenue flight.

I am just wondering when it is expected that the 4R-ALN will commence revenue flights?

Does UL have plans to receive any A333s with Oneworld Livery?


source : roshankan

Will there be an announcement tomorrow regarding merging MJ and UL?

Austria's National Carrier, Austrian Airlines (OS) to re-launch direct flights on Vienna-Colombo from 27 October 2015. Austrian Airlines will be operating Colombo with once a weekly nonstop flights onboard Boeing 767-300 with First, Business and Economy Classes. Flying hours between Vienna and Colombo from 09:10 to 10:25hrs. Good to hear European carriers are coming back to Colombo but it's sad British Airways has terminated the Colombo flights couple of days ago. Does all Austrian B763s have winglets? It will be nice to see these birds at Colombo.

OS047 - VIE-CMB - 17:45 - 07:25 - B763 - TUE+1
OS048 - CMB-VIE - 10:05 - 16:00 - B763 - WED

All OS B767-300ER have winglets. OS does not have F class cabin. It will be only Biz and Economy. I am a bit baffled as to why one weekly flight. How would crew roster work? Dead heading crew? or 6 night lay over for the crew? Latter seems unlikey

& most of the "some people" have vanished into thin air...and I am also awaiting their response on UL ex-management and their current view on HRI

GOSL (not the present) requested BA to operate from LGW

If you try to stick with one vendor...then you need to dance with same vendor...UL should have leased some 77Ws

President Maithripala Sirisena returned to the island after the conclusion of his trip to China, at 12.20am on board Singapore Airlines Flight SQ 468

Did he go to Singapore as well or was this cuz there was no Sri Lankan flight when he wanted to return ?

Yes . even now its not late to do it.

I cant undertsand some people saying issues like pilot training, maintenance as problems to have boeings. There are plenty of other Airlnes have mixed fleet and why not UL??

777- 300 ER will be a good option if UL have plans to fly Australia also in future.

Maybe a good idea, but not at the moment. UL is already in debt into millions, and we still have to pay for the aircraft that has been ordered, not to mention the leases for the existing ones. So right now, ordering new 777's, training, maintenance, etc. is not economical.

EK will withdraw A340s soon, same as UL.......

If at all they should forward plan and order some A350-1000s as extra aircraft (seeing UL already has A350-900s on order). By the time they get them in the early 2020s, hopefully UL would've overcome its debt issues. AFAIK it also has fairly similar capabilities to the 777-300ER.

Why UL is unviable vanity project...



extract

"...He wanted to start an airline because he believed it was a symbol of progress.

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines employed a good Sri Lankan captain. Would I release him? Of course, but how could an airline pilot run an airline? He wanted Singapore Airlines to help. We did. I advised him that an airline should not be his priority because it required too many talented and good administrators to get an airline off the ground when he needed them for irrigation, agriculture, housing, industrial promotion and development, and so many other projects.

An airline was a glamour project, not of great value for developing Sri Lanka. But he insisted. So we helped him launch it in six months, seconding 80 of Singapore Airlines’ staff for periods from three months to two years, helping them through our worldwide sales representation, setting up overseas offices, training staff, developing training centres and so on. But there was no sound top management. When the pilot, now chairman of the new airline, decided to buy two second-hand aircraft against our advice, we decided to withdraw. Faced with a five-fold expansion of capacity, negative cash flow, lack of trained staff, unreliable services and insufficient passengers, it was bound to fail. And it did..."

Some people in this forum criticised LKY...he was a visionary of his time...

4R-ADC flew a test flight as UL8 on the 30-3-2015. Any idea when this aircraft going to go back to the lessor? any news on this?



Date From To Flight STD ATD STA Status
* All dates and times are in UTC timezone
2015-03-30 Colombo (CMB) Colombo (CMB) UL8 10:05 10:05 - Landed 10:29