RE: SriLankan to Colombo from LHR
Apologies regarding flying to Oz, I forgot they stopped. But I can categorically tell they were cheaper than Emirates. I have sold many many seats on Sri lankan to Oz, SIN, CMB, MLE. When the Tamil tigers hit out at CMB airport ,Sri Lankan lost a lot of business. Fares were slashed when they started operating again. I was selling seats with UL for under £350 on many routes. I have spoken to UL account manager in London as they came to visit us in Manchester to tell us what they will be doing to increase awareness that the strike had nothing to do UL or the british tourists. I have spoken on many diffrent occasions with UL about fares, contracts, routes and Interline agreements with EK, and EK’s fares from what I have noticed on contracts and CRS systems are not undercutting UL. What would they acheive by doing that? They hold a vested interest in the airline, they have pumped money into them? The only route that they would be competitive on would be the LHR-DXB / CMB-DXB, but then it goes down to the travelling public. People are aware that EK are a good airline, Air Lanka did not have the best reputation, but it’s now when UL are a good airline to fly with they struggle to convince people to fly with them because other people’s opinions sway them to a diffrent airline. If you know the airline and confident they are a good airline and are puntual, competitive, decent aircraft, friendly service (Sri Lankan’s are renouned for this), you are on a winner!!, and It’s unfortunate that some travel agents won’t sell them even more.
It’s upto people to make there own opinion, as we have.
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