‘Shocking’ Airbus Scandal Spurs SriLankan to Pursue Compensation
- State-owned airline looking into ways of recovering damages
- Airbus admitted to bribery to try to sway plane sales
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The government of Sri Lanka is considering ways of recovering damages, including claiming compensation from Airbus SE, after the European planemaker admitted to bribing executives to win aircraft orders.
“The reputational damage was huge, enormous,” Vipula Gunatilleka, chief executive officer of state-run SriLankan Airlines Ltd., said in an interview at the Singapore Airshow on Wednesday. “That’s why our government is looking at certain remedial action.”