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“A NEW AIRLINE FOR SRI LANKA” – by Des Kelly Peter Hill, Vice President of the Airline “FitsAir” is instrumental in offering his Airline for use by the Sri Lankans to travel to places such as Dubai, Male, The Maldive Islands and Trichy (India), for a start, and World-wide perhaps, later on. Until now, Sri Lankan Airlines has been the only mode of such travel, but since last month, they now have a choice. Thank you Keith Bennett for this ‘under the radar’ story you have provided. Let us hope that after all the trials and tribulations that Sri Lanka has been through recently, they can now fly high with FitsAir as a spare (Airline).   Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. ...

Nov 8, 2022 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , , ,
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SRILANKAN AIRLINES – IS IT A PARADISE? – By Dr. Tilak S. Ferando For the last few years, the SriLankan airline has been making a loss continuously. It is the consensus of everyone that the airline is overstaffed, particularly top-heavy, with millions of rupees to the senior management staff as salaries.  Therefore, the only option would be to privatise the airline. During President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s rulership, one of the international airline multinational conglomerates, with its separate travel company, showed an interest in taking over SriLankan airways. Virgin Conglomerate’s Chairman, Mr Richard Branson, had discussions with President Kumaratunga. He had to return to the UK disappointed, only having placed Sri Lankan ginger beer for virgin flights. SriLankan Airlines has gone through a metamorphosis of names in 42 years. Formally, it was known as the flag carrier of Ceylon under ‘Air Ceylon’. In 1979 Air Lanka commenced its operations from Bandaranaike Airport. ...

Oct 24, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Tilak S Fernando Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
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“HOT, OFF THE PRESS” – by Des Kelly With due thanks to my friend Jude Goonewardane, Collector/Keeper of ALL Musical Extravaganzas emanating from olde Ceylon, Sri Lanka, and finally, from abroad, where Nimal Mendis, God rest his soul, composed this song to promote Air Lanka, a few years ago. The general public did not hear this song, unless they were on a flight of the said Airline. This was what we would term, a strictly promotional song, until Jude decided to install it on You-Tube, simply to give us all the chance to reminisce about this highly talented Icon, in Nimal, who also sings his song. Once again, thank you Jude, for giving me the chance of promoting yet another Songwriter from My Lovely Island Home. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’ Lanka. ...

Jun 20, 2022 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , ,
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Air Ceylon our foundation in the sky   Aviation in Sri Lanka began in the year 1911, Bleriot Monoplane was the first Aircraft to arrive in Srilanka. The first flight in the skies of Srilanka was in the early morning of 7th Dec 1912, when two Frenchmen took off in a Bleriot aircraft, fly and land safely at the Race course grounds. The first International flight to Srilanka, a De Havilland Puss moth arrived from Bombay on 7th May 1931. Ratmalana Airport was built in 1935, formal opening was in 1938. .Modern   International Airport at Katunayake was build in the  year 1967 and opened for International operation in the year 1968, which is now  known as B.I.A(Bandaranayke International Airport) Air Ceylon was established in the year 1947 as State owned flag carrier, the inaugural flight of Air Ceylon took place on 10th Dec 1947 from Ratmalana to Kankasanturai with 16 ...

Jun 5, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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