Sri Lankan Airlines held a media conference followed by cocktails at the
Crystal Room of the Taj Samudra Hotel to launch and introduce the
FlySmiles partners. To keep to the promise to be the Frequent Flyer
Programme that Rewards and Delights, they joined with no less than ten
major companies worldwide and signed agreements with Malaysia Airlines,
Etihad Airways, Dialog Telecom, American Express, Standard Chartered,
Travelling Connect, Hertz, Taj Hotels and Palaces, Siddhalepa, and Deccen
Aviation (Lanka). SriLankan Airlines CEO Manoj Gunawardena said "SriLankan
Airlines welcome our new partners to the world of FlySmiles. The FlySmiles
partners also gave brief introductions, and with the formalities over lead
to fraternising with the visitors from several parts of the world, among
whom were Brigitte Tan from Hertz and Richard Wolfe of Travelling Connect
from the Netherlands.
The saree was much in evidence among the members of the
airline staff and Nirmali Paldano wore a sand toned saree with a double
border, the border on the outside in a black and sand print, with the
inner narrower border in a turquoise. Sharada Iyer from Etihad Airways had
her pink saree bordered in gold and ivory, she wore with a gold blouse
while Desiree Premachandra contrasted her blue silk saree bordered in
coral and gold, with a blouse in the coral and a necklace of agate beads
with a disc pendent at the base. Theruni Ratanatunge had her gold hued
saree patterned in dots in red and aquamarine in a Satya Paulish fashion.
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