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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 11:12 pm
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Originally Posted by hillrider
Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, it's 43.6% owned and is managed by Emirates, which will now be able to directly measure the value of oneworld.
The OW site press release states as "SriLankan Airlines is majority owned by the Sri Lankan government and state-owned institutions".
8 Jul 2010 http://www.srilankanewstoday.com/news.php?newsid=1737
The Government has become the sole owner of SriLankan Airlines as it has purchased all shares of the Emirates recently.

The Government has purchased 43 percent of shares from Emirates and its share ownership has increased to 94.6 percent. The balance 5.4 percent shares belong to the SriLankan Airlines employees.
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Wikipedia is never a reliable source.

See today's post on the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...er-merged.html

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