190 SriLankan officers drew salaries of Rs.1mn

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The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) revealed in its report to parliament yesterday that 190 officers of SriLankan Airlines had drawn a monthly salary of one million rupees each.

The COPE will present a special report on the national carrier SriLankan Airlines to parliament soon.

The COPE also asked for the educational qualifications of those officers.

The report, which was submitted to the House by its Chairman Sunil Handunetti, said that the Auditor General had submitted a report on an audit query conducted on Srilankan Airlines.

The report said the details of the Auditor General’s report will also be included in the special report that would be submitted to parliament.

This will be the second special report to be presented to parliament by the COPE during the recent times. The report on the bond issue was the first special report submitted to the House.

Meanwhile, the COPE report presented to the House yesterday revealed that a contract has been signed to lease out eight aircraft without obtaining Cabinet approval while SriLankan Airlines had paid Rs.16, 924,36 million as compensation for cancelling financial lease agreements for four of eight A350 aircraft even before the paper was submitted to Cabinet for its approval. (Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)

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Comments - 14

Arnold Friday, 25 January 2019 09:28 AM

Party hard when the ship is drowning.

wind up Friday, 25 January 2019 09:29 AM

LIQUIDATE THIS airline. We, the TAX PAYERS cannot afford anymore.

ICE Friday, 25 January 2019 12:27 PM

Can we recover the salaries paid to this 190?? Can you publish the names of these lucky ones?

SL Friday, 25 January 2019 09:31 AM

Everyone playing with public money .this country take loans to spend on currupts.We need to stand up and kick these A.H.s .if not we will not be able to stop this country becmmibg the nex Somalia in next 4-5 yrs

Weera Friday, 25 January 2019 09:40 AM

You may be referring to administrative officers, as Senior Pilots definitely has to be paid a sum over Rs. 1 million, comparable with international standards

Salary Friday, 25 January 2019 05:02 PM

Please note even the other international.airlines donot pay this salaries. The salaries are paid as per qualifications

Phantom Friday, 25 January 2019 11:58 AM

So there?

Jude Friday, 25 January 2019 01:07 PM

GROUND THE AIRLINE !!! IMMEDIATELY !! YEAH!!

dhammi Friday, 25 January 2019 01:08 PM

come on, there can't be 100 pilots for an airline with 18 aircrafts?

Shelly Friday, 25 January 2019 05:29 PM

Weera, is trying to defend, Dhammi you are correct, come on

kumar Friday, 25 January 2019 05:30 PM

For pilots and flight Engineers, Rupees one million is reasonable.

Sambo Friday, 25 January 2019 07:38 PM

All these takes place with blessings of the very top politicians and they should be brought before justice which never happens in Sri Lanka. They come, they earn and they go.

Aranolis Appu Friday, 25 January 2019 07:47 PM

After all these revelations and fuss it is interesting to see whether those responsible will be made accountable and surcharged.

sunil vijaya Monday, 28 January 2019 06:23 AM

air Asia's crew never spends over night stays in Colombo - they fly in and fly out. we too need to cut down cost - just fly in and fly out of cities instead of accommodating the crew in 5 star hotels with each accommodated in single rooms - that's the rule. we now don't operate long journey flights so this could be implemented.

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