NEW HOPE FOR SRI LANKA’S LOSS MAKING SECOND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
March 8th, 2015
SRI Lanka’s newly elected government has developed plans to bring more business to Sri Lanka’s loss-making second international airport, the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport.The vice chairman of the government owned Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd, Sanjeewa Wijeratne said authorities are looking at converting land around the airport into an industrial zone, using the airport as a military air force base, and redirecting international flight to exploit the airport’s maximum one million passenger capacity. MRIA, built at a cost of ...
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