This Sri Lankan airport could be India’s counter to China’s OBOR manoeuvre

[Tom M]

i have a useless shitty stinking house that i cant sell. can india buy it?

The question here is not the value about the value of Srilanks assets, the question is your Government is ready (rather forced) to lease out or sell assets in your country to other. LOL

I guess you can't understand that.

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

The question here is not the value about the value of Srilanks assets, the question is your Government is ready (rather forced) to lease out or sell assets in your country to other. LOL

I guess you can't understand that.

gov is shit broke so am i. we both are sailing useless assets

 

[Soumitra]

This is what I wrote in another thread on the topic

First the Govt of India is not investing - it probably s an airline company from India. They can use that airport as a gateway to get "international" airline status.

South Indian Airports like Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum etc are just an hours flight away. however the landing and parking charges in these airports are exorbitant. Why not park your planes in Sri Lanka during the night and in the morning fly your domestic routes. Lets say this is a new airline with 3 to 5 planes. whole day they fly the domestic routes and in the night have hopping flights: Bangalore-Colombo-Matala, Chennai-Colombo-Matala etc. All your planes parked in the night at Matala. Morning have flights Matala-Colombo-Bangalore, Matala-Colombo-Chennai back to domestic routes

Secondly once the port project develops there could be some business travelers flying to Matala so in future it could be a good investment

 

[Tom M]

gov is shit broke so am i. we both are sailing useless assets

Do you mean you are shit ??? Please don't be so harsh on yourself.

 

[Sugarcane]

This is what I wrote in another thread on the topic

First the Govt of India is not investing - it probably s an airline company from India. They can use that airport as a gateway to get "international" airline status.

South Indian Airports like Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum etc are just an hours flight away. however the landing and parking charges in these airports are exorbitant. Why not park your planes in Sri Lanka during the night and in the morning fly your domestic routes. Lets say this is a new airline with 3 to 5 planes. whole day they fly the domestic routes and in the night have hopping flights: Bangalore-Colombo-Matala, Chennai-Colombo-Matala etc. All your planes parked in the night at Matala. Morning have flights Matala-Colombo-Bangalore, Matala-Colombo-Chennai back to domestic routes

Secondly once the port project develops there could be some business travelers flying to Matala so in future it could be a good investment

You are genius sir, Nobody would have thought about getting free parking of plane in other country.

 

[Soumitra]

You are genius sir, Nobody would have thought about getting free parking of plane in other country.

Dont know whether you have heard of this anecdote. (I dont know whether it's true of not but it shows how Indian businessmen mind work)

There was this Indian Businessman who approched a bank in New York for a loan of $10,000 for a period of one month. The bank asked for a collateral. He offered his Mercedes S class. He returned after a month and paid $10,500 and got his car back.

The bank manager asked him that they did a background check on him and he is very rich so why did he need a $10000 loan and why put his car as a collateral. He replied - I was travelling out of the country and needed a safe spot for parking my car. Where else it is safer than a bank's garage. No where in New York can you safely park your car for just $ 500 for a whole month

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Do you mean you are shit ??? Please don't be so harsh on yourself.

yes i am atm i am broke AF

 

[Han Patriot]

If India buy it, the Indian members will call it a strategic move... To counter China.

This was the same airport China rejected and asked for repayment instead. Now our Lankan friends are pushing it to supa powa India.

 

[HeinzG]

Ironically that ghost airport, which you are referring to is the only other international airport available in Srilanka among all the other 12 combined. So I guess, it's not a ghost airport as you may wish think. Please get some better knowledge before ridiculing others.

Sometime back Indians were calling it a white elephant and a sign of Rajapaksha's corruption. How time changes.

This is what I wrote in another thread on the topic

First the Govt of India is not investing - it probably s an airline company from India. They can use that airport as a gateway to get "international" airline status.

South Indian Airports like Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum etc are just an hours flight away. however the landing and parking charges in these airports are exorbitant. Why not park your planes in Sri Lanka during the night and in the morning fly your domestic routes. Lets say this is a new airline with 3 to 5 planes. whole day they fly the domestic routes and in the night have hopping flights: Bangalore-Colombo-Matala, Chennai-Colombo-Matala etc. All your planes parked in the night at Matala. Morning have flights Matala-Colombo-Bangalore, Matala-Colombo-Chennai back to domestic routes

Secondly once the port project develops there could be some business travelers flying to Matala so in future it could be a good investment

But, it was you people who claimed that the Mattala was useless project done by the Chinese monster loans. I can't understand why is this double standard?

@Gibbs and @Godman

For your attention mates.

 

[faithfulguy]

This was the same airport China rejected and asked for repayment instead. Now our Lankan friends are pushing it to supa powa India.

You need to give it to the Indian media, they can sell an Eskimo a bag of ice in the middle of winter. Look at how the Indian mass gobbled it all up. Only Indians can equate this one airport in the jungle to the whole OBOR project.

 

[Tom M]

You need to give it to the Indian media, they can sell an Eskimo a bag of ice in the middle of winter. Look at how the Indian mass gobbled it all up. Only Indians can equate this one airport in the jungle to the whole OBOR project.

Yet the only other international airport available in Sri Lanka apart from Colombo. What an irony, huh ???

 

[Shahzaz ud din]

Dont know whether you have heard of this anecdote. (I dont know whether it's true of not but it shows how Indian businessmen mind work)

There was this Indian Businessman who approched a bank in New York for a loan of $10,000 for a period of one month. The bank asked for a collateral. He offered his Mercedes S class. He returned after a month and paid $10,500 and got his car back.

The bank manager asked him that they did a background check on him and he is very rich so why did he need a $10000 loan and why put his car as a collateral. He replied - I was travelling out of the country and needed a safe spot for parking my car. Where else it is safer than a bank's garage. No where in New York can you safely park your car for just $ 500 for a whole month

Just few days back one of my Indian friend was telling me how smart the Indians are in doing business.He was referring towards the same story But the person mentioned was Vijay Malya or Malia. Country was UK, city was London and amount of loan taken was $ 5000.May be this is generic story fabricated to impress the people.The characters keep on changing with respect to condition and requirement.

 

[Soumitra]

Just few days back one my Indian friend was telling me how smart the Indians are in doing business.He was referring towards the same story But the person mentioned was Vijay Malya or Malia. Country was UK, city was London and amount of loan taken was $ 5000.May be this is generic story fabricated to impress the people.The characters keep on changing with respect to condition and requirement.

Like I said it is an anecdote - not neccesarily true. But this shows how Indian Businessmen mind works

It is not tooo much of a strech to think that some businessman may think of investing in that airport bcause of this reason. Please note this is totally my own conjecture. I have NOT read any report of news that someone is planning to do this. It is just my feeling that if some airline company wants they can do this