Mihin flies high again
Shirajiv SIRIMANE
colombo: Sri Lanka’s budget airline, Mihin Lanka is to resume flights
from December 21, an airline official said.
The airline will lease an aircraft from France to re-launch these
operations, which will fly daily to Dubai, Trichy and Trivandram with
the resumption of the flight.
“The airline is now in the process of evaluating tenders to seal the
best option to wet lease the aircraft. Since we are hoping to obtain a
wet lease, it is expected that the lessee would provide us with pilots
and some crew members,” a top official said.
It is expected that the Government would once again come out to fund
the airline.
He also dismissed speculation that the airline would not merge with
SriLankan Airlines.
“However we are looking at synergies where both could work together,
he said.
Mihin, which was flying to Trichy, Trivandram, Buddhagaya, Maldives,
Bangkok and Singapore, halted operations. Mihin flights have been
operating with a 60 per cent load factor which was very encouraging. |