In this paper, the steady thin film flow on the outer surface of long vertical cylinder of non-Newtonian Johnson Segalman fluid for lifting and drainage problems have been investigated. Adomian decomposition (ADM) and numerical methods are applied for the solutions of the non-linear problems. Expressions for the velocity field and average velocity have been derived for both the problems, respectively. For Weissenberg number W-e = 0, we retrieve Newtonian cases for both the problems. We also obtain the results for Maxwell fluid by taking slip parameter a=1. We also discussed the effect of the Stokes number S-t, the Weissenberg number W-e, the ratio of viscosities phi and the slip parameter a on the fluid flows. (C) 2013 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.