Sri Lanka plans to privatise national airline to help pay off debt

Sri Lanka's new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday proposed privatising national airline Sri Lankan Airlines as part of reforms aimed at paying off the economic crisis-hit country's debts. "It shouldn't be that this loss has to be borne by the poorest of the poor," Wickremesinghe said. He added that the airline made a loss of SLR 45 billion in FY21.