Beauties In The Skies
Madini , Roshani, Anusha and Chamika
SriLankan Airlines Captain (Mrs.) Anusha Siriratne (34) and Junior First officer Madini Chandradasa (22) were the first all-female cockpit crew, operating a flight from Colombo to Trichy and back on November 1, 2009. Each leg on an Airbus A320 aircraft took one hour.
They repeated the feat on New Year’s Day 2010 by flying to Karachi and returning, also in a twin-engined A320, with each flight taking three hours and 40 minutes.
Meanwhile Snr.First Officers Chamika Rupasinghe (32) and Roshani Jinasena (26) are now flying the long-haul A330 and A340 aircraft to Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East.
The airline currently has these four women among its 189 pilots. Chandradasa and Rupasinghe are old girls of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo; Jinasena (Ladies College, Colombo and British School) and Siriratne, a mother (Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya).
Geart we are proud of Colombo School girls …we will even happy if and when an outstation or rural school girls makes it..
It[s a rich mans/ woman ‘s jobs.
FLY HIGH LADIES AND KEEP THE SIDE UP! GREAT TO BE RULING IN A MANS WORLD, HOW DO YOU FEEL. GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT LADIES. I AM SURE IT CERTAINLY WAS NOT AN EASY TASK.
To all other women, there is no limit to anything if you put your heart and mind to it, everything is possible. The world is your stage go out and take what is meant to be yours,
Thats the way to go. Now the men can sit at home and change the nappies.
we are proud of you young ladies. i hope to have the pleasure of being served by you the next time i fly. great job and good luck.
Thati, why are you commenting on these young ladies. You know that since you were disbarred in Viriginia and Washington, DC for the crimes you committed against your clients, Mother is the sole provider in the house. You need to stop looking at these young ladies because Mother will send you to live in the basement with me, your con-artist son, since I too am a convicted felon.
Yes your honour,
Mr. Bogollogama,
Just tell us where you wanna be served,
Business Class, First Class
Anywhere you want,
Whether its up in the skies or hidden by the clouds
or even in our home town of Maharagama
And Oh, dont forget to bring your son along
well well they all came from the back door,,,, some of them got thruh the tech exams first time, when deserving cadets with 1000 hrs were left out…. way to go the influenced lot… if my mama is the president ,, then ill be flying not planes rockets too…… …..
hahahah they can fly as long as they had the right people in side to get them what they want………we knoiw how all these four got in,,,,,
this was a really quality post. In theory I’d like to write like this too – taking time and real effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate a lot and never seem to get something done.
well, its typical of you sri lakans to diss our own girls.
for a fact I personnally know chamika since since my school days and I can tell you that she has no political relationship whatsoever to anyone in the government.
she has come a long way and i’m so proud of her.
get over it people.
Proud to be heard as we are Sri Lankan………..
Congratulations ladies……… This is great achievement ………….