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SriLankan expands in Asia, returns to Karachi SriLankan Airlines
is expanding its services in Asia starting this summer by resuming
flights to Pakistan's largest city Karachi, launching a new service
to Kochi in India, and increasing frequencies to Dubai, Kuwait,
Bangalore, New Delhi and Male. With its third
Airbus A320 joining the fleet and increasing fleet strength to 10
aircraft, the airline will begin operating an A320 to Karachi from
June 1 on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, departing Colombo at
19.55 hours and arriving at Karachi at 23.45 hours. The return
flight will leave Karachi at 01.00 hours the next day and arrive
in Colombo at 04.30 hours, the airline said in a statement. SriLankan
Airlines plans to promote Sri Lanka as a holiday destination for
Pakistanis and also attract MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences
and exhibitions) tourism from Pakistan. Flights to Karachi were
temporarily suspended in mid-2001 when the national carrier re-organized
its route network to cope with a depleted fleet of aircraft following
the attack on the Bandaranaike International Airport. The flights
between Kochi and Colombo, which began on April 22, will operate
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The Dubai and Kuwait sectors
will become daily frequencies from June 23, increasing from the
present six flights per week. The number of flights between New
Delhi and Colombo were increased from five to six starting from
April 21. The flight is routed via Bodh Gaya from April 21 to 30
and again from September 1 to October 25. Flights to
the southeastern Indian commercial city of Bangalore were also increased
to four per week operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, up from three per week. The number
of flights between Colombo and Male will also be increased starting
in June, with two flights on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
and one flight on Mondays and Thursdays. These are in addition to the existing flights to Male from Paris, Tokyo, London and Zurich. Bairaha Farms
Ltd has incorporated a new wholly-owned subsidiary company under
the name of Siyane Farms Ltd to establish initially a breeder farm
and subsequently a broiler farm, the company said. A tea estate located at Dolosbage in Kandy has been purchased for Rs. 4.5 million to establish a modern breeder farm after obtaining all the necessary approvals. The extent of the land is approximately 24 acres. The planned investment in setting up the breeder farm would be Rs. 42 million, the statement said. Joint auditing standard for ISO 9000, ISO 14000 The SLSI (Sri
Lanka Standards Institution) says that the eagerly awaited joint
auditing standard for both quality and environmental management
systems has been published by ISO (International Organization for
Standardization). ISO 19011.2002,
Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems,
replaces six older standards in the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000
(environment) families. Its use will give organizations a more integrated
and balanced view of their operations, making it an outstanding
tool for continuous improvement towards business excellence. It is also
aimed to help user organizations optimize their management systems,
facilitate the integration of quality and environmental management,
and, in allowing single audits of both systems, save money and decrease
disruption of work units being audited. Both the ISO
9000 and ISO 14000 families of International Standards emphasize
the importance of audits as a management tool for monitoring and
verifying the effective implementation of an organization's policy
for quality and/or environmental management. Audits are
also an essential part of activities such as external certification/registration
and supply chain evaluation and surveillance. ISO 19011 replaces
ISO 10011-1, ISO 10011-2, and ISO 10011-3 in the ISO 9000 family
and ISO 14010, ISO 14011 and ISO 14012 in the ISO 14000 family.
It also completes the ISO 9000 "core series", also comprising the revised ISO 9000, ISO 9001 and IS) 9004, published in December 2000, SLSI said in a statement.
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