Sri Lanka urges airlines to fly full tank or fill elsewhere | Daily News

Sri Lanka urges airlines to fly full tank or fill elsewhere

Bloomberg - Sri Lanka is recommending airlines carry enough jet fuel to last return trips or fill up elsewhere, as it grapples with a shortage due to foreign- exchange crisis.

“We’ve asked airlines to carry the required fuel while operating to Sri Lanka, because there is a shortage of aviation fuel, and we have to manage the situation,” Rayhan Wanniappa, a director of Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority, said in a phone interview Monday. “Airlines are bringing certain additional supplies, while we are also providing from our stocks.” Airlines that fly to Sri Lanka, including Dubai’s Emirates Airline are tankering carrying more fuel than required while the country’s flag carrier is using the Southern Indian city of Chennai and Dubai to refuel for long-haul flights, people familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified as plans are confidential.

 


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