I like spicy food yes..but some food from your part of the world is to spicy for me..I like Thali,Biryani and Chicken Tikka Masala...I found sri lankan food to be delicious & spicy. Sri Lankan competes with THAI for the same passangers..the winters are cold in Europe and many wealthy europeans wants to go away to the tropics..Sri Lankan has to turn Colombo into a modern hub and attract those passangers with more advertisment and keepp government out of running the airline..Sri Lankans co-operation with Emirates was good..Dubai is a super hub and Sri Lankan is to small on its own..

Sri Lankan must like THAI did in the late 70S early 80s invest in advertisment..sell Sri Lanka as paradise which it is....THAI was a mediocre airline in the 1980s but had fabulous advertisment and colorful brochures with arrangements & hotels( todays sophisticated travellers can book this themselves) but for someone who have not been to Asia before its very comforting to be taken care of.

Carriers today are obsessed with technical gadgets, with logotype..I think warm personal service is more important, from people who are naturally nice & love their job...carriers spend so much money changing logotypes,menues and ptv..and also these claustrofobic seats in business class that looks like cubicles for E.T.??? I flew Sri Lankan from Dubai to Colombo(night flight)..menue like a good resturant,excellent spicy catering,beautiful stewardesses..a 4-hour bliss of a flight. Those PTV systems are very expensive..when they brake down, they need to be fixed by highly qualified engineers..when you 500 channels and 100 films you soon run out of options..to much t choose. Wasn t anything wrong with the old airlanka.

I flew Sri Lankan A340 from Dubai to Colombo..night flight, and representative of Sri Lankan was very agressive towards sri lankan passangers boarding in Dubai with to much handbagage. Second time I flew Emirates, Dubai-Colombo-Male....

Olympic air now competes with european giants like British airways,Lufthansa,Air France,Easy jet.. , its really a stupid airline.Sri Lankan prospects are much better when well managed.Why B777s??the A330 is excellent and versatile..but Colombo airport needs uppgrading, the old part, the new wing is very good.
I find your internal conflict since 1983 with that ugly movement, the tamil tigers, to be a depressing story.

Olympic air is a sad story what happens when governments play businessmen and airline owners. OA became state owned in 1975 and then overstuffed, corrupt,missmanaged...it wentout of business in the early 2000s the greec state shouldering its massive debts and the new airline axing its intecontinental routes to become a european carriers with a fleet of A320....parking its A340 and abandoning its destinations where there were wealthy greec diasporas( Johannesburg,Toronto,Melbourne­).

Go to Asia instead, to Hongkong and Japan & bustling Japan. Europe is an unfriendly place now, epensive,racist, you probably need visa..I like Asia better, much better service.

I found Sri Lanka to be a beautiful place with beautiful and friendly people..and without the hassle and aggressive peddling that goes on in India..although I like India also its more tiresome for a westerner as our world is less crowded than all the humanity and markets of India. Sri Lankan is a super airline but needs more planes and more capital to attract tourists..and less government bureaucracy.

Thank you for your mail, I stayed in a beach resort outside Colombo..but I went on a tour of Colombo and also to the Palace on the top of the mountain with those beautiful murals(Purnawara I think it is called)..bad news that SriLankan is government owned..government make bad owners..Emirates is a super airline who can help Sri Lankan...government can destroy an national airline as they turn it into a play toy and over staff it...a functioning airline is important for the tourist trade of Sri Lanka.

Lovely videos you have..Im happy that you at last have peace in Sri Lanka so that all the potentials of this beautiful country can be used..without those terrorist destroying everything as they see fit. Does Emirates still have a co-operation with Sri Lankan?? when I was in Colombo in 2008 they had code sharing and other things.