Colombo
 Amid the unprecedented fuel crisis in Sri Lanka, the island nation’s national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines is now bracing for potential cancellations of its flights until July 18, media reported.
The jet fuel reserves in the country have run out, as per Sri Lankan local media outlet, Daily Mirror. With this looming fuel crisis, the SriLankan Airlines has told the employees that the flight operations will likely to be impacted until the 18th of this month.
Sri Lankan management while issuing an internal memo to its employees 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, reported Daily Mirror.
In an advisory earlier, the Sri Lankan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on June 28 issued a 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.
It is worthy to note that the daily fuel usage of SriLankan Airlines out of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) is around 700,000 litres. However, the airport only managed to secure approximately 250,000 litres per day on average.
As this is not sufficient in meeting the requirements, the airlines took measures to introduce “tech stops” on certain routes to reduce the uplift from Colombo while incurring additional costs.
