Isn't Mihin Lanka going to take delivery of those two A320neos were ordered few years ago ?

MRF was delivered to MJ only in 2015. Why does the lease expirying very early?

When KU stops operating A343 to CMB. We will only be seeing Qatar airways operating a quad-jet to Colombo.

They might become a part of UL's upcoming A32Xneo order

This isn't going away....

Ten EOIs for SriLankan

http://www.ft.lk/article/566433/Ten-EOIs-for-SriLankan

SriLankan Airlines News Highlights

• SriLankan have received applications from 10 interested parties. in the coming months before the Government begins official talks to enter into a public-private partnership with an international company, a top official said, but a debt sharing agreement appears unlikely.;

• SriLankan to lease two more A333 to PIA;

• SriLankan is struggling to decide what to do with the first A350 to be ready for delivery in October. SriLankan is in the process of deciding whether or not we should take delivery of A350 and deciding how we should handle it;

• SriLankan is in touch with our legal counsel, we are in touch with the airline and we will make a decision in the next couple of weeks;

• SriLankan Airlines has been in talks with AerCap about buying some of the aircraft out or renegotiating with some other parties, for the Government of Sri Lanka to get involved and then to think of a different model for the leasing arrangements. AerCap has not still given them a word;

SriLankan's three A350s already been painted in White;

MSN52



MSN55



MSN60 - It was painted in white livery 1st week of Sep 2016;



Pic source : Philippe Gallerand, A380_TLS_A350

Mihin Lanka to be scrapped from next month

Q1. Which is that second bird of MJ in question which will be returned in Jan 2017

Q2. Why they need to maintain a different price tag for MJ routes? What difference does it really make? I dont think there is a big fare difference between MJ and UL.

Pheww!! A big headache is going to be over!!!!

Not sure I agree.

Who is absorbing the debt? Operating losses? Staff?

Looks like more debt for UL and the people of Sri Lanka getting screwed again.

More wishful thinking imho.

Once any interested party starts doing Due Diligence and finds out that they will need to come up with $2 Billion + to cover future liabilities - they will run away.

Going to be an Epic Fail imho.

Bankruptcy is the only option left - the sooner this is closed down the better imho.

Why should the people of Sri Lanka have to pay for this when others have earned $$ Millions through Theft/Fraud/Corruption and Racketeering and have gotten away with it?!

SriLankan Airlines commissions new Global Contact Center

SriLankan Airlines said it has launched a 24-hour Global Contact Center which will further enhance levels of service for all its worldwide customers and members of its frequent flyer programme.

Ajith Dias, Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, said: “We have sharply enhanced our focus on the needs of our customers as an integral part of our effort to expand our business and bring SriLankan Airlines to profitability.”

“I am confident that our new Global Contact Centre, which would be the first point of contact for many of our passengers, will tremendously increase levels of convenience and go a long way towards delighting our customers.”

The new centre will provide services for all SriLankan Airlines’ passenger operations. The airline’s main contact number 1979, reachable from any fixed line or mobile in Sri Lanka, remains the same.

SriLankan Airlines’ Chief Executive Officer, Captain Suren Ratwatte, said: “We at SriLankan Airlines have in recent months been enhancing our product and taking our services to the very doorstep of customers through an enhanced website, sophisticated new mobile app and new ticket offices throughout Sri Lanka.

“Our Global Contact Centre has been designed to provide a level of service which is in accordance with SriLankan Airlines globally renowned standards in the air and on the ground. It will be comparable to the service that customers receive at our ticket offices, airport services and of course on-board our aircraft. Customer service and safety are our top priorities and this centre is proof of our commitment”

The centre is fully equipped to handle a wide range of customer service functions including 24×7 Call & Email handling; Skype facilities; Direct Dial numbers for selected online destinations; customized services for individual Flysmiles members; automated Flysmiles balance enquiries, last transaction details and mileage expiry for FlySmiLes members; enhanced monitoring and reporting of data and report generation from the state-of-the art ‘Genesys’ Contact Centre system; and a social media monitoring capability. A Chat Facility will be activated shortly.

The centre is in compliance with international standards on Data Security and Contact Centre Operations. It is expected to shortly be certified for ISO 27001 Information Security Standards, PCI-DSS v3.2 for Call Centre Systems and Environment and Industry Certification on Call Centre Processes (Service Capability & Performance certification). It is also equipped for Fraud Management on all transactions and contains a full-fledged Disaster Recovery Site.

Located at the Iceland Business Centre Premises in Colombo 3, the Global Contact Centre will be operated by Scicom which is based in Malaysia with its fully own subsidiary in Sri Lanka We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership with SciCom in this and other areas of our business.

Sri Lanka in talks with AerCap to cancel three A350s

SriLankan Airlines is in talks with AerCap, a Dutch aviation lender to cancel orders to lease three Airbus A350 aircraft which did not suit its network and was too expensive to operate, a top official said.

One A350 is due in October, but SriLankan no longer wants to aircraft.

"We cannot operate them. We will make a bigger loss if we try to operate them," SriLankan Chairman Ajith Dias told reporters.

SriLankan has already cancelled one aircraft leased from AerCap paying a penalty of 17.5 million dollars.

The aircraft was ordered by the ousted Rajapaksa regime, when ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother-in-law Nishantha Wickremasinghe was chairman.

SriLankan had ordered another 4 A350s directly from Airbus.

My guess would be Mihin is sending two aircraft back to lessor by the end of January 2017. First of all A321 (MRC) is leaving the fleet in October 2016 and A319 or A320 (MRF or MRE) leaving the fleet in January 2017.