{"id":494866,"date":"2022-05-31T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494866"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:03:30","slug":"crisis-hit-sri-lanka-urges-airlines-to-fly-full-tank-or-fill-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-urges-airlines-to-fly-full-tank-or-fill-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis-hit Sri Lanka urges airlines to fly full tank or fill elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is recommending airlines carry enough jet fuel to last return trips or fill up elsewhere, as the island grapples with a shortage of everything from oil to food due to a foreign-exchange crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve asked airlines to carry the required fuel while operating to Sri Lanka, because there is a shortage of aviation fuel, and we have to manage the situation,\u201d Rayhan Wanniappa, a director of Sri Lanka\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority, said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cAirlines are bringing certain additional supplies, while we are also providing from our stocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airlines that fly to Sri Lanka, including Dubai\u2019s Emirates Airline are tankering \u2014 carrying more fuel than required \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is recommending airlines carry enough jet fuel to last return trips or fill up elsewhere, as the island grapples with a shortage of everything from oil to food due to a foreign-exchange crisis. \u201cWe\u2019ve asked airlines to carry the required fuel while operating to Sri Lanka, because there is a shortage of aviation fuel, and we have to manage the situation,\u201d Rayhan Wanniappa, a director of Sri Lanka\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority, said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cAirlines are bringing certain additional supplies, while we are also providing from our stocks.\u201d Airlines that fly to Sri Lanka, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}