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Peace Air, one of the three bidders for the SriLankan Airlines deal has ordered for six A380 aircraft from another regional airline.These would be branded and run under the Peace Air .
All the operations would be from the Mattala International Airport Hambantota.
According to Gamini Wethasinghe Managing Director of the company, the first two aircraft would arrive end of July. “We hope to utilize these two aircraft for Muslim religious travel to Mecca.”
Wethasinghe said that passengers would be fed to the airline from two destinations in the Far East allowing the airline to operate on a 80% load factor.
He said that by 2018 August two more aircraft would be fed to their operations and the last two would be joining the fleet by mid-2019. “In addition we will also purchase two 175 seat aircraft by August this year to fly to SAARC destinations to feed in passengers to the A380’s which would each have around 575 seat capacity.
See more - http://www.dailynews.lk/2017/01/23/business/105391/peace-air-operate-six-a380-aircraft-mattala
All the operations would be from the Mattala International Airport Hambantota.
According to Gamini Wethasinghe Managing Director of the company, the first two aircraft would arrive end of July. “We hope to utilize these two aircraft for Muslim religious travel to Mecca.”
Wethasinghe said that passengers would be fed to the airline from two destinations in the Far East allowing the airline to operate on a 80% load factor.
He said that by 2018 August two more aircraft would be fed to their operations and the last two would be joining the fleet by mid-2019. “In addition we will also purchase two 175 seat aircraft by August this year to fly to SAARC destinations to feed in passengers to the A380’s which would each have around 575 seat capacity.
See more - http://www.dailynews.lk/2017/01/23/business/105391/peace-air-operate-six-a380-aircraft-mattala
