The Sri Lankan government met Iran Air manager and Iran government officials on Thursday to renegotiate the orders for the three A350-900 aircrafts ordered by the last government.

One official said that Iran Air CEO and an Iranian minister met with Deputy Minister Public Enterprise Development Eran Wickramaratne and other ministry officials to negotiate the three aircrafts, adding “the meeting was positive”. Iranian Air officials were also interested in a codeshare arrangement with SriLankan Airlines.

The former management of SriLankan Airlines entered into a contract in 2013 with Airbus for the purchase of eight A350-900 aircrafts to replace the existing wide-body fleet, Mr. Wickramaratne told the Business Times earlier this week.  Out of these eight, four aircrafts are due this year and the balance four were to come during a span of six years. “We settled a wet lease for one aircraft due this year and there’re three more to settle which we are in the process of negotiating.” The official said that on Thursday the Iranian officials met with the Ministry officials to discuss the wet leases of these three aircrafts.

(Source: sundaytimes.lk)