Hon. Rohana Bandara
Hon. Rohana Bandara questioned who ultimately bears SriLankan Airlines’ reported losses of about Rs. 2 billion between April and October 2024, arguing that the burden may fall on the wider public, including those who do not use air travel. He compared the situation to the assumption of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation debt through a fuel levy and asked whether the losses are recovered through ticket prices or met by the Treasury.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, thank you for the answers. Maintaining SriLankan Airlines is like maintaining a white elephant. People in remote villages who have never boarded a plane are ultimately bearing these losses. We hear that the Government has assumed the airline’s debts, much like with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, where a levy of Rs. 50 per litre is collected from fuel users to shoulder debt. Regarding SriLankan’s losses of around Rs. 2 billion between April and October 2024, who ultimately pays? Is it recovered from airline users via ticket prices, or from the Treasury and thereby the entire public?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 ·No. 1741258607035810 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: Hon. Rohana Bandara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 February 2025. No. 1741258607035810. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26565