SriLankan Airlines welcomes wide-bodied Airbus A330-200

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SriLankan Airlines recently welcomed the arrival of a wide-bodied Airbus A330-200 aircraft, wet-leased from Air Belgium, giving a further boost to its fleet.

The aircraft has 22 Business Class and 240 Economy Class seats and is scheduled to operate on the Frankfurt, Dhaka and Dubai routes, with effect from tomorrow (29).

A second aircraft from Air Belgium is due to join the SriLankan fleet in mid-January 2024, SriLankan Airlines said.

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Natalie Nanayakara Thursday, 28 December 2023 07:13 AM

Better lease out a few more planes before the election because the Rajapaksas and the other pohottuwa criminals will be in a hurry to flee the country.

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Harsha Wijewardene Thursday, 28 December 2023 07:38 AM

Corrupt minister and corrupt chairman is destroying the airline.

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DJ Thursday, 28 December 2023 06:45 PM

They have already destroyed the airline.

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Kandiah Balendran Thursday, 28 December 2023 07:40 AM

It's a black hole sucking tax payers money.

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Kabir Hashim Thursday, 28 December 2023 07:42 AM

Overstaffed with politicians stooges mostly rude and lazy. What a waste of taxpayer funds.

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Mahesh Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:44 AM

Where is the proposal of ROI ( return on investment)

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D P P Prasad Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:48 AM

This not a permanent solution in order to mitigate and minimise the issues being faced by the Air Lanka. In order to make this institution profitable this should be privatised. Further the Air Lanka should be exempted from the government involvement

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VJ Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:57 AM

How many operational aircrafts does Srilankan have in their so called FLEET?

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Rip Winkle Thursday, 28 December 2023 10:35 AM

No photo op with Kappanpala?!! So unfair!

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Sirisena Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:17 PM

Whats the point? The losses will be increased and poor public will bear the burnt. Close down immediately and save the money for health education etc.

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badaipukai Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:56 PM

How much was the commission paid to NSS?

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Rambanda Podiralahamy Thursday, 28 December 2023 05:55 PM

Are you referring to the sleeping person who is a Sri Lankan politician who sleeps in Parliament complex

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Marlo Perera Thursday, 28 December 2023 05:46 PM

Is this Airbus A330-200 is old or new or refurbished? How old this air craft from the date of origin?

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ramesh Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:34 PM

Good, but what the cut for those "wide bodied" politician?

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Pantha Kumaran Thursday, 28 December 2023 10:43 PM

Sri Lanka is blessed with highly qualified people who can take our country forward. Sadly our uneducated politicians are there to destroy our country. What can we do. I thought Ranil was a good choice. But he is working for the Rajapakses.

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wasantha Thursday, 28 December 2023 10:53 PM

Close it. Massive loss every year. poor service. No one uses sri lankan more than once because of poor reputation and service

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Jude Friday, 29 December 2023 12:06 AM

Adding more loses to gigantic money losing SriLankan airlines!!

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Jude Friday, 29 December 2023 12:08 AM

Enough is enough ground the damn eternally money losing SriLankan airlines!!

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Siva Sivalingam Friday, 29 December 2023 12:20 AM

For Sri Lankan economy to improve one of the chanell is through tourism. M family made a visit to SL in October, last minute someone messaged me discouraging not to travel by Srilankan Airlines. It was too late for me to do anything, l took the chance and had a good flight and pleased to note that it was a full flight and seventy percent of them are tourists. There are too many negative publicity and unnecessary rumours around. Most of the airline suffers from flight delays and is not unique to Srilankan airline. Their aeroplane maintenance record meets the international standard. There is no serious issue happened, we must give the airline a chance to help with the economic revival of Srilanka.

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Ceylonese Friday, 29 December 2023 04:27 AM

They say borrowed feathers never shine. No wonder Sri Lanka Airlines is running at a loss since it's inception 43 years ago. In the first place If we cannot afford to buy our own planes we should not have an airline industry in this country.

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