National carrier SriLankan with its passenger traffic growing by nearly 25 per cent last year and expected to take even a bigger leap with eventual flights to Toronto, Melbourne and Moscow is now urgently in need of new aircraft.
According to insiders with Toronto region alone having more than 200,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, the carrier has already negotiated a code share deal with Air Canada to facilitate the new service.
Though the European Airbus aircraft have been the workhorses of the SriLankan since mid 1990s after President Premadasa first acquired a fleet of five aircraft from Toulouse, the France based manufacturer just prior to President Premadasa’s assassination in May 1993, most SriLankan pilots The Nation spoke with were not in favour of acquiring any more of its aircraft allegedly due to the repeated failure of the manufacturer to keep to its word, even when it comes to engine performance.
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