Sri Lanka Government may resume divestment of SriLankan Airlines ‘in the next few months’

Sri Lanka‘s State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne reported Sri Lanka’s Government is undertaking preparations to resume bidding for the operation and management of SriLankan Airlines in the near future, stating: “I’m expecting in the next few months that it will be open for people to express interest” (Business Times/bizenglish.adaderana.lk, 09/10-Oct-2018). Mr Wickramaratne added the airline is “going through an internal restructuring again, and we may have to make a different offering in a different structure” from the Government’s previous attempt to partially privatise SriLankan.