I think this is one of 'Fake news'' plan. He had this plan way before the new board came over.

Seems NEO fleet has regained ETOPS certification.

The international flights from Vizag to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo and Bangkok are said to be doing good business with a high occupancy of around 90 % on an average.

SriLankan Airlines, which operates, four days a week from Vizag to Colombo is drawing excellent response in view of the good onward connections, competitive fare and the low Visa fee.



SriLankan Airlines restarted the service from Hyderabad in July last year with four flights, and increased it to five by November. It has now gone for for daily service with a round trip ticket available for about ₹15,500 with 80% occupancy claims for the less-than-two-hours flight.

This explains! http://www.airforce.lk/news.php?news=3574

Yes, it came to CMB, then took off with SLAF cargo to Entebbe, and then returned the following day with SLAF helicopters and other equipment from Entebbe. Left CMB on the 23rd during morning hours back to its destination.

Load factor means nothing - the important figure is the yield. I see they don't bother discussing this or even whether the route is profitable.

As I've stated previously the lease costs are so high that it is impossible to make money. I don't believe any routes are profitable. Ongoing massive losses support this.

Seems to me that is this was profitable that Suren and Co. would be announcing this as an example of their great leadership.

Another day another Commission......

How many is that now? I've lost count.

And still not a single person charged or imprisoned even though all the names of the people involved in approving this deal are listed in the Weliamuna Comission report.

How about getting a copy of the lease contracts and see who signed these on behalf of the Airline?

Just more 'Big Talk' - I don't expect anything to happen.

For the naive people on this Forum - selling out your country for personal gain is called TREASON!

Today I think UL 171 diverted to Chennai. I saw it in parked in Chennai airport when I flown in UL 124. Now it is flying as UL171D to Colombo.

The SriLankan Airlines will experience a shortage of pilots soon as many are leaving, say sources at the national carrier.

In the past few days alone, eight first officers left the airline, owing to its unstable situation and also the increase in the PAYE tax they have to pay.

Previously they paid 16 per cent of their salary as tax, for an average Rs. 175,000 per month, which has now risen to 24 pc.

A pilot does not earn overtime and the maximum flying hour entitlement is 100 hours per month.

A shortage of pilots will mean the end of the airline, a pilot said on condition of anonymity.

First officers have a big demand in foreign airlines, and they can earn around 7,000 US dollars per month.

In addition, they are entitled to get educational expenses of children until they reach 22 years of age, a house, a car and discount air tickets.

An investigation by Sri Lanka Mirror revealed that most pilots who joined SriLankan following the closure of Mihin Lanka have now been recruited by Qatar Airways and Viet Jets.

Meanwhile, SriLankan has returned an Airbus A320-200 (4R-ABP) it had acquired on 13 April 2012, to the leasing company. It had flown to Malta via Abu Dhabi on April 18.

Plenty of options for good people - no need to work under unqualified political appointees like Suren.

Good to see people paying attention to what is going on within the Airline - seems some people understand what is coming.

Good to see people 'voting with their feet'!

They can forget about recruiting Expat Pilots - their poor treatment of Expats is well known within the Global pilot Community.

The sad thing is that a group of us put together 2 documents to help them.

- How to recruit Expats (including detailed strategies).
- Expat issues at UL and what needed to be done to solve these issues (some issues would have cost UL nothing to solve).

All completely ignored by Druvi Perera.

They opted instead for a policy of 100% local Pilots - see that's working out really well!

I think the financial issues will sink UL first.

SriLankan Airlines expands frequency to Gulf countries

I think UL cmb mel is doing well any idea ?

If it was making money Suren would be taking credit for it.

Ongoing massive losses indicate that there are no profitable routes.

These days v hard to get seats flight full

That doesn't mean anything - flights to Frankfurt were full as well. Former CEO Kapila said at a meeting that they needed 125% load factor to break even.

The problem is that the new fleet is leased at such high rates that it is impossible to make money no matter how full flights are.

Massive losses support this.