We already have ticket office in Galle and all over the country including Wennapuwa, Vavuniya and so on. Also fyi only Colombo and Kandy belongs to UL and the rest are GSA. This makes easier for every Srilankan to make use of book now pay later option, Indemnity report submission, unaccompanied minor and some other services where you need to visit a office. If giving access to all over the country is a problem then you should change your mind.

Huh no
When you appoint GSA you need to pay them...they don't work for free
most airlines have moved out appointing GSA and zeroed the commission rate
E-tickets so no ticket endorsement
indemnity submission by internet or by mail
and ALL services by call center or by internet

FitsAir's brand new Cessna 208 Caravan EX has arrived straight from the Cessna company! Aircraft received a water salute at Ratmalana the day it arrived here.

WOW, NICE

Can you share the statics of booking from these offices with online
and also why you spend more than 10m to renovate or modify galle branch?? did you ever earned that much money from that branch...

Live in future not in 19th century, Giving access to the country is no problem as long as you earn profit on it, your playing with our tax money and giving 1000 talks, Go and do your work without spent company internet to these

Does Fitsair still operating domestic flights in Sri Lanka?

Guys - don't be so naive.

It should be obvious from the ongoing investigations that SriLankan is not a Business/not run like as Business/Does not resemble a Business in any way.

Any deals are to benefit a small group at the expense of everyone else. It's been in the papers over and over and over and over again.

This latest deal is no different - just a matter of finding out who benefits and which corrupt Minister(s) are involved.

SriLankan Airlines eyes JV partner by year-end 2018

SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int'l) hopes to find a joint venture partner by the end of 2018 and subsequently resume flights to continental Europe, EconomyNext has reported.

"Before the end of the year, the cabinet is determined to go ahead with a joint venture with a world leading airline and get back to [continental] European destinations," Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said.

According to the ch-aviation capacity module, the Sri Lankan flag carrier's European network is currently limited to a 7x weekly service to London Heathrow. In terms of its long-haul flights, SriLankan also serves Melbourne Tullamarine, Beijing Capital, Shanghai Pudong, Guangzhou, Hong Kong Int'l, Tokyo Narita, Mahé, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta, and destinations in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

The airline does not currently have any joint ventures, although it is a member of Oneworld alliance.

Amaratunga also added that the government, which owns the airline, would also be looking at increasing its fleet. SriLankan currently operates twenty-eight aircraft, including five A320-200s, two A320neo, three A321-200s, four A321neo, seven A330-200s, and seven A330-300s. It formally still has four A350-900s on order with Airbus, although it signalled it would not be taking these aircraft.

I have lost # of end of the years...for finding JV partners
& UL is not even a subject under this minister

Just more "Sri Lanka Big Talk BS" - this article comes out every few months with a different BS talking minister each time.

This is to show the naive people of Sri Lanka (and the ones on here) that something is being done.

The reality is that:-

- They are out of ideas
- Out of time
- Out of money

Once the $220 Million loan from UBS runs out that's it - shutdown. That's if the IMF doesn't force a shut down earlier.

There is no way out of this mess.

The status of 4R-ALH shows as "EGR01" on the 14 & 16 Oct. Is it going through engine run? What could be the reason if its really doing engine run ?

I guess this is CS-TFZ/4R-ALS

Our national airline had taken on lease an airbus from a foreign country about two years ago and had re-leased it soon after to a European country.

The lessee-airline had been required under the lease-agreement to return the craft in a good flying condition after effecting the necessary repairs if the need is upon the expiration of the lease period.

When the lease had expired, our engineers had flown to that European country to check its flight viability and had found its condition had deteriorated to the extent of being almost unairworthy.

So, our engineers had told the foreign airline that our national airline was not prepared to accept the airbus unless it was restored to a sound flying condition.

However, a few days later, the engineers concerned had discovered to their horror that the airbus which they had condemned as not being airworthy had been brought back without effecting any repairs and parked in a hangar at our main airport and the pilots who had brought it had disappeared.

Meanwhile, informed sources say that there are one or two politicos behind dumping on us the unairworthy airbus which has already cost the taxpayers several millions of rupees.

looool!

Hi Folks

4R-ALS will be using flat bed or original configuration as Hajj flight which looks like premium economy

There's no "mystery" about any of this.

The aircraft is owned by Aercap. SriLankan was forced to lease it as part of the penalty for the cancellation of the Aercap A350 order.

The aircraft was sub leased to Hifly by SriLankan.

The sub lease ended and the aircraft has been returned to SriLankan.

What's so difficult to understand?

I would take these daily mirror gossip section articles with a grain of salt, whoever writes them indulges in creative journalism to fill the column.