RE: SriLankan to Colombo from LHR

>Serendib
>Its a shame you know so little about your national airline!
>I work with them, they are excellent! Almsot every
>pilot,manager,travel agent I have met says that the New
>SriLankan Airlines beats the old Air Lanka hands down!
>Try chatting to their CEO (Peter Hill) an Aussie with 20+
>years experiance of the Airline world and he will tell you
>what sort of transformation has occured.

Pakistani,
I have intricate knowledge of the airline, thank you very much. My first cousin is a first officer on the 330/340 and my uncle is a captain on the 320. Peter Hill maybe experienced, but us Sri Lankans are definitely not happy the way he is running the airline. What he says does not count. What matters is what the people who work for the airline think.

>The old Air Lanka with its ancient Tristars has not a patch
>on the new airline with its A340/A330 fleet. In fact Air
>Lanka was comparable to PIA/Aie India in the past, and now
>it beats those two airlines hands down!!!!! Embaressing to
>admit as I am Pakistani! 🙂

Firstly, we got the 340’s and the 320’s before Air Lanka became SriLankan. What has always been the hallmark of Air Lanka/SriLankan has been cabin service. Granted, the 1011’s may have been old but that has nothing to do with the quality of service.

>Since Emraites took over senior management positions, they
>have had some VERY good quality people on board. The CFO is
>an Indian guy who has knowledge of aircraft that would make
>people on this forum blush!

Pakistani, you don’t know who I am and you don’t know what I know. So, before you jump on me for making baseless statements let me tell you this. I am a Sri Lankan. Also, I am patiotic. But, that does not cloud my judgement on what I know first hand about SriLankan. I am not running the airline down. On the contrary. It is a great airline and it has always been better than PIA or Air India. Not because of the quality of planes but because of cabin service. Selling 49% of the airline to Emirates has not been a good solution, sure we inducted 330’s into our fleet, but at the same time there are quite a bit of issues that have been problematic.

Sam.