Dubai government-owned Emirates has a 10-year contract ending in March 2008, to manage SriLankan Airlines which is Sri Lanka's national carrier.
Emirates also has a 43 percent equity stake in the airline.
Emirates top official in Sri Lanka, Srilankan Chief Executive Peter Hill said earlier that a delay in finalizing deal was affecting forward planning at the airline.
However, Emirates President Tim Clark was quoted in March as saying that it was up to the Sri Lankan government, struggling to cope with the intensifying Tamil Tiger separatist war, to persuade the Middle Eastern airline to continue the arrangement.
"They [Sri Lankan government] have basically got to persuade us that it's worth our while," Clark told the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai.
Clarke was also quoted as saying the Sri Lankan government's creation of a new airline, Mihin Air, w