SriLankan Airlines Triumphs at National Project Management Excellence Silver Award 2018


Maldives
PUBLISHED August 08, 2018

SriLankan Airlines has recently won the Silver Award for the Best Managed Project in the Travel & Logistics Sector at National Project Management Excellence Awards 2018 in recognition of its revolutionary Book now Pay later project, which opened up the world of air travel for persons without credit cards to book air tickets over the internet.


"This accolade is of great significance as SriLankan Airlines competed with leading corporate organisations in the island." "Said SriLankan Airline's Head of Information Technology Chamara Perera, who received the award on behalf of the airline at the ceremony.


"It is a testament to the strategic vision, instrumental leadership and teamwork demonstrated by everyone who helped the airline to implement an array of customer-centric digital initiatives. Book Now Pay Later was a project that involved multiple departments at the airline, including SriLankan IT and E-Commerce."


Book now Pay later is an amazingly simple solution which integrates airlines IT systems with several local banks and foreign exchange houses that brings unprecedented convenience to air travellers. It is specially designed for those who dont have credit cards, those whose credit limits are insufficient for their travel requirements, or credit card holders who simply dont want to use their cards to make purchases online.      


Through this customer-centric system, travellers in Sri Lanka can book their tickets from the official Srilankan airlines website for any flight. When the customer chooses the Pay later option, he/she receives a confirmation e-mail with a booking reservation number and guidelines on how to make the payment. 


The system will hold the booking up to 48 hours for the payment to be made, which can now be done through all branches of Bank of Ceylon, Cargills Bank, Commercial Bank, Hatton National Bank and Sampath Bank, and all Cargills Food City outlets island-wide. This facility has also been introduced in the United Arab Emirates by SriLankan through Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE-based foreign exchange and worldwide money-transfer company.


The National Project Management Excellence Awards 2018 were presented by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Sri Lanka Chapter to honour achievements of best practitioners of Project Management in eight categories, who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the country or a large community of the country.


Furthermore, the awards also aim to improve the practice of project management whilst demonstrating leadership and initiative by advancing project management concepts, techniques, best practices and theories. 


PMI is the globally recognised leading professional membership association for the project, programme and portfolio management profession with over 2.9 million professionals across the globe.

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