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Mihin Lanka airline under Mahinda Chinthanaya
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2 Jan 2007 21:15:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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As a founding member of Airlanka / Sri Lankan Airlines my 'natural' reaction is depression. That is also the fate of Sri Lankan Airlines, if this proposal goes ahead.
The Sunday Times understands that initial discussions have taken place between officials of the President's Office and likely private promoters, some of them based in Switzerland together with some local operators in the travel trade.
Sri Lankan Airlines is Public Enterprise and even poor Sri Lankans need to feel ownership - not through a single individual but through their own direct investment - as in cricket. Mr. Rajapakse is revealing that he is driven by personal ambitions and this why the war has become more violent and out of the control of Sri Lankans.
An industry source said this might be a risky move because Governments generally did not run airlines. He said efficiency was important for an airline and the level of efficiency in the government sector was known to be low
I agree. If the President went ahead - the fate of this airline would be worse than that of Air Ceylon if government controlled it or it would become a competitor to the National Carrier. It takes much wisdom to develop an airline of National standards. We did that with Airlanka with the help of Singapore International Airlines who are one of world's most successful airlines. Can the new airline match that combined wisdom of Singaporeans and Sri Lankans who worked day and night to develop Airlanka? Most of all we learnt humbly from our Singaporean gurus. Who are the gurus in this new venture? Retired Financial officers? Are they not traitors?
There go our - IPKF - International Peace Keeping Funds .
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam - Pioneer Member of Airlanka / Sri Lankan Airlines.
Edited By - Gaja - 2 Jan 2007 22:19:50 GMT |
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25 Jan 2007 08:03:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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ASIAN AVIATION MUST FACE UP TO LCC CHALLENGE
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison, has warned that Asias major incumbent carriers risk becoming irrelevant, or even face extinction, if they fail to grasp the changes in the market occurring due to LCCs.
Opening the Low Cost Airline Congress in Singapore today, Mr Harbison stated that an aviation revolution is taking place.
The aviation world will never be the same. Any new entrant MUST be low cost and any existing airline not heeding this message will become an ex-airline. We havent yet seen a major international airline shut down in this region although Ansett Australia's collapse was contributed to by the entry of LCCs domestically but it will happen, stated Mr Harbison.
Mr Harbison observed there are now a variety of airline models in Asia, where previously all were similar department store airlines.
Hybrid models are evolving with characteristics specific to their own environment, like Virgin Blue, while others are taking on a special Asian characteristic, like AirAsia X and VIVA Macau. We are also seeing the rapid development of low cost long-haul models, like Oasis Hong Kong and Jetstar.
These hybrids are defying many of the basic rules. But they have one common ingredient - a passion for cost reduction, said Mr Harbison.
Mr Harbison predicts that there will be twice as many Asian international airlines in five years than today. Talk of the coming consolidation among airlines is a nonsense, stated Mr Harbison.
Who is going to consolidate? Not Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways? There will certainly be some market exits, but large scale consolidation won't happen it's just too difficult and the market is expanding too fast, he said
Mr Harbison stated that 2007 will be an important year for liberalisation of aviation access by governments, but he warned of a growing logjam caused by government inertia.
As governments recognise the political and economic benefits of liberalising, it is more a question of how we get around the sticky cobwebs of the bilateral system. ASEAN 2008 is just around the corner and most states have so far paid it little more than lip service. It needs concerted action and quickly.
It's wake up time. The only thing preventing economic expansion for hundreds of thousands of people, especially in regional centres, is the dead hand of government aviation policy. We need to shout that message at every opportunity, concluded Mr Harbison.
SOURCE: Centre For Asia Pacific Aviation, 2007 |
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29 Mar 2007 16:54:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Motta Rala is a robber from the beginning !
Firstly the tsunami fund, after the Bunker at 400Mio$$$ and now a cheap airline !
Why Sri lankans are blind ? I have pity for the tax payers.
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18 Apr 2007 06:36:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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If anyone thinks that Sajin Vass Goonawardena is interested in starting an airline is so badly mistaken. With his history of starting up companies and then raping them till they bleed dry and running them into ground, he is licking his fingers as to how he could rake in the maximum from the given budget of $15M. Sources say that 75% of this budget has already evaporated into thin air! Do you really think that he will hang around and waste his precious time running an airline, sorry mates wrong again. He will make his money then move on to the next pot where he can make more money.
If he has a love for the aviation industry why did he get an A320 on ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance & Insurance) of $2,500 per hour based on 350 hours of utilization per month (Monthly rental is $2,500 x 350 hours = $875,000) when there are A320's available in the market at $1,900 per hour based on 350 hours (monthly rental is $665,000) and the difference is a staggering $210,000 per month!! That is $210,000 x 6 months = $1.26M (Rs.138.6M)!! Now where do you think this is going?
He has twisted every arm at the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) to fast track the issuance of the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) when 2 other airlines that was short listed since 2 years ago for the same purpose was completely side lined. Now the CEO of the CAA has resigned over these issues.
CAASL have stated many times before, that a Wet-Lease (ACMI) operation shall be entertained provided the wet-lease is made into a Dry-Lease on the 6th month!! This means that Mihin Lanka has to have their own Pilots, Engineers, Cabin Attendants, Maintenance and Insurance. On the 6th month (that is end of August 2007) Mihin Lanka will be history and Sajin a very rich man and whole heap of unemployed people only to blame themselves as to 'why the hell did we fall for that'.
Then there is Wirawilla airport Project, has anyone thought of what will happen to the wild life, all the birds will move out for the noise pollution.
Here are a bunch of cronies who think nothing but filling their pockets and will stop at nothing to achieve their appetite for greed.
When do we take a stand and say enough is enough, when??
Edited By - ul504 - 18 Apr 2007 08:12:09 GMT |
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18 Apr 2007 08:41:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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HOLIDAYAIR:
Anyone who can rejuvernate the aviation industry in Sri Lanka has my vote.
Why don't you take an active stance with EXV and make a protest to CAASL? Otherwise you and EXV will never see the coloure of daylight.
CAASL have broken so many regulation that they forced on you and EXV but now they had to bend or even break these to avoid taking the heat from H.E & Sajin.
Based on all this, make your case to CAASL and even take it up as high as the Supreme Court for an injunction. You have been made to wait with so much false promises by CAA that you will be given your AOC, but that day never came and here are a bunch idiots that has no decency driving a stake into the Sri Lankan Aviation industry. But you can't do this alone, you need the support of EXV and you need to gain the confidence of EXV.
UL504
Edited By - ul504 - 18 Apr 2007 09:02:02 GMT |
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3 May 2007 12:19:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Even if all what was said below is correct, what harm does it do by introducing a budget Ailrline? Come on folks wake up!! Surely you must learn to appreciate good intentions, rather than critisizing everything by wearing coloured lenses.....
Do you want to fatten the coffers of other carriers? To whose agenda do you dance?
Why are you folks go bananas when something good is done? If you want to fly the airline of your choice so be it. But then why the hell you get all upset and uncomfortable when an airline is owned by Sri Lankans and it provides a reasonable service at an effordable rate?
Let there be competition and face it...........Pehaps you folks are smarting , becasue you can't bear to watch a Sri Lankan or Sri Lankans (Treasury funds) start something good for the benifit of its people.
Let the customers be the judges!! |
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3 May 2007 14:24:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Let the customers be the judges!!
Puthra
you imbecile how many commercial flights has it had so far? 0! so how can the customers decide? it has carried only politicians for taxpayer funded junkets. |
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3 May 2007 16:36:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Before we have a budget airline we should have a budget on the salaries and expenses created by our uneducated politicians!They run a country like a tee-kade in Pettah!
Spending capital and NOT balancing the book.Please let me know when the put the country up of sale.Maybe I can make a commission too.But please without the politicians. |
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11 Jul 2007 12:19:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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So Mihin's Head Of Flight Ops AND thier CFO has resigned! Whatever next? The expression 'Running Around Like A Headless Chicken' comes to mind!
UL504 apologies for the delayed response but to answer your question.. we are currently in talks with both the CAA AND GoSL regarding our application.. apart from the obvious delay (so as to accomodate to Mihin's Launch) MR has personally stated that he has no objections to our application and we expect to get the green light VERY SOON.. regarding EXV it would not be in our interests to work with them at this time.. for obvious reasons! |
Kandyan
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11 Jul 2007 17:13:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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| The average Sri Lankan in Sri Lanka is too poor to travel outside of Sri Lanka. Why the government wants to nationalize the airlines is beyond me. |
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