NPP Govt. abandons plan to privatize SriLankan Airlines

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    The National People’s Power (NPP) government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is to abandon initial plans by the previous rule to sell off or divest the cash strapped SriLankan Airlines, an official said.

    The previous government initially planned the sale process of the national career through the State Owned Enterprises Restructuring Unit . After that the former Cabinet said it abandoned the sale process and decided to look at an alternate model to divest the airline.

    However, Chairman of the NPP Economic Council Prof. Anil Jayantha said the government believes that the national career should remain with the state given its significance for the development of tourism. He said the airline would not be sold off or divested as a result.

    He said a new model for the improvement of its management would be considered instead.


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    Hapuwa

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    Biggest sinkhole of government funds and they decided to keep it.
     

    mayadmax

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    Biggest sinkhole is because all prev currupted gov made it a sinkhole. Rajapakshas should be charged for sucking everything from Sri lankan to keep Mihin air and with management who keep flights for themselvs and abusing everything
    Biggest sinkhole of government funds and they decided to keep it.

    Even now sri lankan has better service and we have one of the best engineering team in the world. Sell or not sell, with proper management someone should be able to make it profitable
     

    monson

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    පුතා Sri Lankan airlines එකේ වැඩ කරන නිසාද ? :lol:

     

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    Biggest sinkhole is because all prev currupted gov made it a sinkhole. Rajapakshas should be charged for sucking everything from Sri lankan to keep Mihin air and with management who keep flights for themselvs and abusing everything


    Even now sri lankan has better service and we have one of the best engineering team in the world. Sell or not sell, with proper management someone should be able to make it profitable
    one of the best engineering team in the world 🤨
     
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    The JVP and statist-nationalists mainstreamed the ideology by describing privatization as ‘selling national assets’ and as the public became more aware of SOE and corruption of political appointees and consultants running them, ‘selling to foreigners’.

    - https://economynext.com/sri-lankas-...s-forex-shortages-default-risks-worsen-89221/

    Sri Lanka has a bloated public sector and loss-making state enterprises which the influential Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and previous Rajapaksa regimes have opposed privatizing.

    SOEs are stuffed full of political appointees and are also used by line ministers to get vehicles outside their official allocations.

    The public sector is also bloated with unemployed graduates each year, a strategy also popularized by the JVP which was picked up by then President Mahinda Rajapaksa from 2005 as an election winning strategy.

    - https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-t...-or-migrate-as-progressive-taxes-bite-107768/
     

    tharakaf

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    one of the best engineering team in the world 🤨
    Yes. We get many maintenance jobs from all reputed airlines. its sad that more than 150 of the team left the country because of this shitty management

    Ado I like how sinhalu like to give a random "Best in the world for xxx" sort of titles without any sort of justification. :rofl::rofl:
     

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    ඒ කියන්නෙ Airline එකෙන් වෙන පාඩුව පියවන්න අපි හැමෝටම බදු ගෙවන්න වෙනව?

    (ඔන්න ටෙලිකොම් එක විකුණන්නෙ නැත්තන් හොදයි, ඒක ලාභ ලබන ආයතනයක් නිසා.)
     
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    තව අවුරුද්දක් යද්දි බලපං ප්‍රොපිට් කියයි.මුන්ගෙ මූල්‍ය විනය හොදයි.
     

    mayadmax

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    Ado I like how sinhalu like to give a random "Best in the world for xxx" sort of titles without any sort of justification. :rofl::rofl:
    Well for a fact people who do work actually knows it because flights get sent here because of reputation. Its like the guy who do mini coopers. he gets cars from other countries because he restore them into actual factory condition where no other place does it or not capable. and all these technicians have very high demand across the world . No need to operate flights, just the engineering team can do the trick.
     
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    Hapuwa

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    Biggest sinkhole is because all prev currupted gov made it a sinkhole. Rajapakshas should be charged for sucking everything from Sri lankan to keep Mihin air and with management who keep flights for themselvs and abusing everything


    Even now sri lankan has better service and we have one of the best engineering team in the world. Sell or not sell, with proper management someone should be able to make it profitable
    We all know who ruined the Sri Lankan, no argument about that. It's the very reason why we need business to be independent from government. Restructuring won't work because it doesn't eliminate the risk of getting abused again by future governments or even by the present government
     
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    aquaman2020

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    We all know who ruined the Sri Lankan, no argument about that. It's the very reason why we need business to be independent from government. Restructuring won't work because it doesn't eliminate the risk of getting abused again by future governments or even management changes
    AKD seems to still follow his commie/socialist ideals without being practical.