According to the forum members, 28 GSA companies are currently active in Bangladesh
This is the second Pakistani airlines after Fly Jinnah to be greenlit for flights between the countries
Passengers are experiencing severe difficulties due to frequent flight diversions caused by low visibility amid dense fog during winter, as pilots are unable to land aircrafts in the absence of a Category 2 Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Dhaka airport.
Says its regional director Solomon Bekele
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has reduced flights on five international routes due to financial losses and a decline in passengers.
The civil aviation ministry has found several Biman officials, including high-ups, fully responsible for the syndicate that artificially hiked the prices of flight tickets to Malaysia in May this year.
The travel agents are facing an “existential crisis” due to the countrywide internet blackout as all activities of around 4,000 travel agents have remained halted since Thursday night.
Uncertainty looms over the fate of hundreds of Saudi-bound Bangladeshi migrant workers as Saudia airlines cancelled multiple flights following the countrywide internet shutdown since Thursday night.
Singapore Airlines has recently appointed a new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from this month.
Singapore Airlines has appointed Timothy Ouyang as new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from September.
For the first time in the country’s history, Biman Bangladesh Airlines has earned the capabilities to carry out C-check, a major maintenance work of the state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in the country with its management.
A new airline, Air Astra, is set to take off in January next year, becoming the eleventh private operator to enter the industry in the past 25 years.
US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dhaka-Chennai route from September 5 under Air Bubble Agreement between Bangladesh and India.
Body of Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was flown to Dhaka from India’s Nagpur this morning.
Norwegian Air said on Tuesday it would not need to raise more cash as easing Covid-19 travel restrictions lifted bookings, although the budget carrier which has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings did not provide a 2021 outlook.
“If any doctor was on board the flight or if I were a doctor, the early demise of Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum could have been prevented,” said Bangladeshi expatriate Abdul Karim, who was on Biman’s Muscat-Dhaka flight that had to make an emergency landing in India’s Nagpur on August 28 after its pilot in command Capt Nawshad suffered a heart attack.
The body of Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qaiyum, who passed away in a Nagpur hospital yesterday, is likely to reach Dhaka on Thursday morning.
Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot who passed away today after suffering a heart attack mid-flight on Friday, was responsible for saving the lives of 149 passengers on December 22, 2016.
