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| Sunday, 15 September 2002 |
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First flight failure by Anton Nonis The much heralded first flight to Jaffna by the country's newest airline ended in fiasco due to the airline's own failure to obtain landing rights at Palali Airport. Media people invited for the inaugural flight to Jaffna could only get on to the tarmac at Palali before the flight had to return to Colombo. Since the new airline, Serendib Airlines, did not have landing rights, the passenger on board the first flight could not pass through the terminal at Palali in order to proceed with their tour of Jaffna. Airline officials who explained this to the frustrated media contingent, said that Serendib had not been able to obtain landing rights from the SLAF on time because the initial procedure of registering the airline with the Civil Aviation Department. Airline officials admitted that the registration delay was due to their own mismanagement of the documentation. The reporters and camera crews who went on this abortive trip had to be content with a free lunch and cocktails dished out by the airline back in Colombo. |
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