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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashan dis" data-source="post: 21169835" data-attributes="member: 124785">Peace Airways to fly six A 380s from Mattala Peace Airways, the airline of peace, will be operating six airbus  380s from Mattala shortly that will fly to China, Africa, Australia and  Europe.There will be two A 380 aircraft coming almost immediately, followed  by another two a year later and the remaining in another two years. All  six flights will arrive at Mattala within the next two years."We will be operating the six Peace Airways aircraft from Mattala  while another six Boeing 787 Dream Liner Aircraft will be operating to  and from the Katunayake International Airport (KIA). In addition 50  brand new aircraft will be purchased from the national carrier,  SriLankan Airlines," Peace Air Chairman Gamini Wettasinghe told Ceylon  Today on late Friday night.He also said that the investment for the  Mattala aircraft is US $2.2 billion while a further US $ 5.5 billion has  been allocated for the purchase of aircraft from SriLankan Airlines.One of the main aims of the Peace Airways strategy would be to fly  Chinese tourists into Africa, and Australian tourists to Europe and  Africa where all the operations will be en route from Mattala, he  explained.He also said that the budget carrier Mihin would be used  as a feeder carrier to fly tourists from Indian destinations to Mattala  from where they will travel to Europe and Australia and other African  and Chinese destinations.Wettasinghe also explained that the US $2.2  billion for the Mattala Airport would be used for the improvement of  the infrastructure at the airport such as electricity, etc along with  the salary allocations for staff for three years inclusive of a bonus of  Rs 100,000 per employee.He also said that the issue with the SriLankan Airlines right now was  that despite the airline making an US1b annual turnover and taking  on-board some five million passengers annually, the cause of the losses  was due to the 48-50 per cent of that figure being diverted to suppliers  of operating leases.He said that all these operating leases would be null and void when  the new buyer – Peace Air purchases the national carrier and gets rid of  the leases which will also pave the way for the acquisition of 50 brand  new aircraft for SriLankan in addition to the additional aircraft  needed for Mihin.He also assured that all the 400 Mihin employees who were terminated,  would be re-employed with the growing needs of the budget airline.ceylontoday</blockquote>

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