Over 100 flights of Sri Lankan airlines have been refueled by India’s gas and petroleum refineries company, Bharat Petroleum at Indian airports as a help to the country reeling under its worst economic crisis and facing fuel lack.
Bharat Petroleum in a tweet
Taking to Twitter, Bharat Petroleum in a tweet stated, “We are happy to help Sri Lankan Airlines, with the refueling of their long-haul flights at Indian airports, to overcome the Jet Fuel shortage in their country. So far, more than a hundred flights have been refueled at Trivandrum, Chennai & Kochi airports.
” Bharat Petroleum Limited has been associated with the Sri Lankan airlines as their refueling partners for over a decade. It has been refueling the long-haul flights of Sri Lankan Airlines at the Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, and Kochi airports for approximately 15 days.
“These refuelings have been done over the last fortnight by mobilizing the assets and manpower for the on-time service, at very short notice. We have been associated with @flysrilankan for over a decade, as their refueling partners,” tweeted Bharat Petroleum.
Recently, it was said that Sri Lankan Airlines is now bracing for potential revocations of its flights until July 18 as the jet fuel reserves in the country have run out,
Sri Lankan Airlines
With this looming fuel crisis, Sri Lankan Airlines informed the staff that the flight operations will likely be impacted until the 18th of this month.
Sri Lankan management while giving an internal memo to its staff last week, announced that the airline ran out of available jet fuel stocks on June 29 and added that due to this the services will be affected.
In an advisory earlier, the Sri Lankan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on June 28 gave notice to the airlines to carry fuel for their return journeys. This is because Sri Lanka’s oil and gas company — Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) — has failed to import the required jet fuel into the country due to the foreign exchange crisis.
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It is worth noting that the daily fuel use of Sri Lankan Airlines out of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) is approximately 700,000 liters. However, the airport only managed to secure approximately 250,000 liters per day on average.
The economy in Sri Lanka is bracing for a sharp contraction due to the unavailability of basic inputs for production, an 80 percent depreciation of the money since March 2022, coupled with a lack of foreign reserves, and the country’s failure to meet its international debt obligations.
The economic crisis has particularly affected food security, agriculture, livelihoods, and access to health services. Food production in the last harvest season was 40 – 50 percent lower than last year, and the present agricultural season is at risk, with seeds, fertilizers, fuel, and credit lacks.
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