UL says sick cockpit crew member delayed flight to Seoul

Sunil Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:08 AM

Lame excuses. By whatever name you call it, this organization has been a colossal burden on the people of this nation from its inception in late 1970s. It is surprising that an airline of this size was unable to have alternate arrangements for a situation of this nature.

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countryman Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:24 AM

U.L, the meaning is USUALLY LATE.

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Tourist Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:25 AM

Other airlines also face situations of sick crew or pilots pre-flight, but those are never excuses for flights to get delayed because there are contingencies in place for such situations. Poor management and Gross inefficiency are the correct reasons.

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Tissa Fernando Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:26 AM

Sri lankan Airlines did not have a replacement crew member? What a joke? What we are hearing is that they are heavily overstaffed but yet they didn't have a replacement crew member to address situations like this. They are basically saying that they did not have a backup plan even though they have been managing a national airline for decades. Total mismanagement. Big executives are only interested in big fat pay checks.

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S, DIAS Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:34 AM

all UL flights are delaying frequently and service level also very bad. this is not first time to highlight and reason delayed in Australia / Singapore / Dubai flights example for that. sorry to say our national line will disappear very soon. No courtesy to update passengers well in time and keep idling, no excuse. cabin crew looks like uncles / aunties and no changes compare to the other lines

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Sambo Thursday, 22 June 2023 07:40 AM

Dum and lame excuses as usual. It was the same delays and engine problems before it was given to over in the past.

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Gunalapage Kiribanda Thursday, 22 June 2023 08:17 AM

Why blaming the poor workers! How about highly paid people in the office? They do nothing and get paid many times than a poor worker!! Tell the minister to Resign!!

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Cecil Hedwige Thursday, 22 June 2023 08:48 AM

Close down Sri Lanakan or sell it to someone who can run it efficiently and at profit

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Rishan Thursday, 22 June 2023 10:03 AM

Cannot accept those excuse. Please how emirates / sungapore airlines handle those kind of situations. They must be having spare cockpit crews innthe airport in case of an emergency ...

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Ding-Dong Thursday, 22 June 2023 12:03 PM

Can the Airline Management explain why there was no standby crew to operate the flight in such an exigency? Are they short of crew perhaps?? Pilots are leaving the Airline and Country just like all other Professionals? Sick of the Country and the way their Management treats them?

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Dept of Civil Aviation / incident reports Sunday, 25 June 2023 08:48 AM

The pilots are incompetent. Check the Department of Civil Aviation website/incidents/accidents reports.

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