Special Report
Everyone has gone quiet.
Parliament, which finds its voice on matters far smaller than the slow destruction of a national airline, is silent. The COPF Chairman, who built a career demanding accountability from others, has not summoned Sarath Ganegoda to answer a single question under oath for matters we raised before. Mainstream media, which should be doorstepping the SriLankan Airlines boardroom, has looked away. The Colombo think tanks, the transparency advocates, the civil society voices who filled auditoriums with speeches about good governance, have found reasons to be elsewhere.
Money has a way of producing that kind of silence.
So let this be said plainly, without diplomatic cushioning and without waiting for institutions that have already chosen comfort over duty.
Sarath Ganegoda must resign as Chairman of SriLankan Airlines. Today.
Not after a committee reviews the matter. Not after a report is commissioned and quietly buried. Not after the airline deteriorates further and the conversation becomes about managing collapse rather than preventing it.
Under his watch, SriLankan Airlines surrendered its most important market. Over 50 weekly flights to India, gone. Routes that took decades to build, handed to competitors. An airline that once made history now struggles to justify its schedule. A fuel crisis arriving in April threatens to make most remaining routes unviable.
And throughout this period, Ganegoda maintained commercial ties to a conglomerate whose aviation interests ran in direct competition with the airline he was supposed to protect.
The allegations of corporate espionage have not been investigated. The conflict of interest has not been examined. No one with authority has demanded answers.
If the institutions will not act, the record must at least be clear.
Sarath Ganegoda damaged SriLankan Airlines. He must step down and face the consequences.Silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.