{"id":62612,"date":"2017-01-22T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62612"},"modified":"2017-01-22T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T20:19:52","slug":"sri-lankas-airline-fails-to-get-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/22\/sri-lankas-airline-fails-to-get-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s airline fails to get bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Peninsular Qatar&#8217;s Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Colombo: Sri Lanka has failed to attract bids from international airlines to privatise its loss-making flag carrier, but will continue its efforts to salvage the company, a minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The government received nine offers but none were from a major international airline operator, State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir Hashim said.<\/p>\n<p>Of the proposals received, the government has shortlisted three, including one from TPG, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.<\/p>\n<p>Hashim is heading a new three-member ministerial panel to decide the future of Sri Lankan which has debts and accumulated losses of over $2bn.<br \/>\nSri Lankan was profitable before Rajapakse cancelled a management agreement with Emirates in 2008 following a personal dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Peninsular Qatar&#8217;s Daily Newspaper Colombo: Sri Lanka has failed to attract bids from international airlines to privatise its loss-making flag carrier, but will continue its efforts to salvage the company, a minister said yesterday. The government received nine offers but none were from a major international airline operator, State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}