Chandana counts 24 years experience in the airline industry having shuttled between two reputed international airlines – SriLankan Airlines and Emirates of the UAE. He worked for AirLanka, Emirates, SriLankan Airlines and is back with Emirates as its Country Manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
In 1984 he joined Air Lanka’s sales team and in 1986 moved to Emirates where he later took up national responsibility for airline sales as Sales Manager – Sri Lanka. With extensive experience, he re-joined SriLankan Airlines in 1998 as Senior Manager Sri Lanka/Maldives. His strong negotiating and communications skills as well as his understanding of human behavioural aspects, brought him to lead Sri Lankan Airlines global corporate communications strategy as Head of Corporate Communications.
Leadership and Empowerment of employees is Chandana’s management credo, and he is a great believer of freedom for his employees – a unique management style which he has adopted throughout his long, successful career.
