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.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has reduced flights on five international routes due to financial losses and a decline in passengers.
For passengers with past experience of the Dhaka airport, the prospect of flying into Bangladesh’s capital has not been a pleasant one, chiefly because of the seemingly interminable delays in getting their checked-in baggage.
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.
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.
Fourteen Bangladeshis, including eight telecom engineers and three Brac officials, who have been stranded in Afghanistan, are making an effort to fly back home in a chartered flight today.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday approved two more Covid-19 vaccines -- Sinovac and Sinopharm, Arab News said.
US-Bangla Airlines will resume daily flights on Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from September 1 after more than three months.
Oman has lifted its travel ban on 18 countries, including Bangladesh, effective from 12 noon of September 1, four months after imposing the ban due to the rise in Covid-19 infections.
The Saudi government has decided that pilgrims who have received Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine will not be allowed to perform Umrah.
A memorandum of understanding between Egyptair and ALO Dhaka Aviation Ltd was signed in Cairo on August 18 -- to start operating two flights per week between Dhaka and Cairo, starting from November 2021.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Biman are at loggerheads over the confusion created over flight operations to and from India.
Foreign Minister and Biman Bangladesh Airlines are blaming each other over the delay in resuming flights with India inconveniencing several hundred passengers.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh and the two local airlines are yet to get the requisite approval from India to resume flights to the neighbouring country from today, leaving hundreds of passengers who bought tickets in a state of suspense.
Although the foreign minister recently said flights with India will resume today, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, US-Bangla and Novoair said they are yet to get any direction from Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) in this regard.
