Bangladesh's private airline industry is struggling to stay afloat, hobbled by soaring fuel prices, punitive surcharges, and what operators describe as unfavourable policies. Of the 10 private carriers that have entered the market over the past three decades, only two -- US-Bangla Airlines and Air Astra -- remain in operation.
For the first time, domestic air travellers are likely to face a travel tax while people going abroad on airplanes are expected to pay up to 67 per cent higher taxes from next fiscal year as the government looks to increase revenue collection.
US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dubai-Dhaka route from June 18.
US-Bangla Airlines and Novoair will resume flights on Dhaka-Cox's Bazar route from tomorrow (June 1) after around two months following the second wave of Covid-19.
US-Bangla Airlines has planned to operate flights on Dhaka-Dubai-Dhaka route from February 1.
Biman and US-Bangla Airlines today decided to resume their flights to Muscat, Oman from October 2 and 1 respectively.
US-Bangla Airlines has decided to operate two weekly scheduled flights on the Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from October 1.
US-Bangla Airlines has announced an additional weekly flight on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from September 1.
US-Bangla Airlines is resuming its flights on the Dhaka-Doha route from August 31, after nearly five months of flight suspension due to the global Covid-19 outbreak.
A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines has brought back 152 Bangladeshis stranded in Abu Dhabi due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
A total of 305 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in United Arab Emirates, South Korea and India due to the coronavirus lockdown, returned home by three separate special flights today.
A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines repatriated 160 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in United Arab Emirates for over three months following suspension of regular flights due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Biman and US-Bangla Airlines are likely to operate 10 more special flights from India to bring back Bangladeshi nationals stuck in the neighbouring country for over one-and-a-half-months following Covid-19 pandemic, the Bangladesh High Commission in India says.
US-Bangla Airlines will operate eight special flights on the Chennai-Dhaka and Kolkata-Dhaka routes from April 20 – 25, to bring back over 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis.
US-Bangla Airlines has received permission from the government to operate cargo flights in a bid to facilitate the country’s export and import sector.
US-Bangla Airlines, a private air operator of the country, will provide personal protective equipment (PPEs) to doctors, nurses and other staffers of all public and private medical college hospitals free of cost until the coronavirus outbreak is over.
US-Bangla Airlines, one of the leading private airlines of the country, today presented different types of safety equipment, including masks, sanitisers, gloves, along with handheld thermal scanners to The Daily Star.
US-Bangla Airlines has taken long-term lease of two ATR 72-600 aircraft from TrueNoord.
US-Bangla Airlines, one of the leading private airlines of the country, celebrates its 2,000 days of operations in the country.
