US-Bangla Airlines

Air travel tax may surge

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 to resume Dubai-Dhaka flights from June 18

US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dubai-Dhaka route from June 18.

US-Bangla and Novoair will resume flights to Cox’s Bazar from tomorrow

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 plans flights on Dhaka-Dubai route from Feb 1

US-Bangla Airlines has planned to operate flights on Dhaka-Dubai-Dhaka route from February 1.

Biman, US-Bangla to resume flights to Muscat from early October

Biman and US-Bangla Airlines today decided to resume their flights to Muscat, Oman from October 2 and 1 respectively.

US-Bangla to operate two weekly flights to Muscat

US-Bangla Airlines has decided to operate two weekly scheduled flights on the Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from October 1.

One more weekly US-Bangla Airlines flight on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from Sept 1

US-Bangla Airlines has announced an additional weekly flight on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from September 1.

US-Bangla resuming flights on Dhaka-Doha route on Aug 31

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.

US-Bangla resuming Dhaka-KL-Dhaka flights from August 16

US-Bangla Airlines is going to resume flights on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka route from August 16, after five months of suspension due to Covid-19.

August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018

Kathmandu Post report on US-Bangla crash baseless: Bangladesh expert

A Bangladeshi investigator, who is closely involved with the Nepali official investigation into the crash of US-Bangla Airlines plane, terms “baseless” the findings of a report obtained and published today by a Nepali newspaper.

August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018

Nepal newspaper report ‘fictitious’, ‘irreverent’: US Bangla

Rejecting a Nepal newspaper report over the investigation findings on the US-Bangla plane crash led by their government, the authorities of US-Bangla Airlines say the report was 'fictitious' and 'irreverent'.

August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018

US-Bangla pilot was mentally stressed, reckless: Nepali probe report

The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in March, killing 51 people, appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure and was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu.

July 31, 2018
July 31, 2018

2 held with 32 gold bars at Dhaka airport

Customs officials detain two persons including a driver of US-Bangla Airlines with 32 gold bars weighing over three kilogrammes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018

Poor luggage handling: Minister suggest job cut of aged Biman staff

Expressing dissatisfaction over delay in luggage handling at airports, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal suggests cutting jobs of aged employees of the national carrier to gear up its operations.

April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018

Kathmandu Plane Crash: Questions over Nepal's probe

US-Bangla Airlines yesterday raised questions over the primary investigation report of the Nepalese authorities on the March 12 crash of its plane at Kathmandu airport that left 51 dead, 27 of them Bangladeshis.

April 22, 2018
April 22, 2018

US-Bangla questions Nepal’s probe into March 12 crash

US-Bangla Airlines raises question over the primary investigation report of the Nepalese authorities on the March 12 crash of its plane at Kathmandu airport that killed 51, twenty-seven of them Bangladeshis.

April 10, 2018
April 10, 2018

US-Bangla Airlines to fly to China from April 26

Private airliner US-Bangla Airlines is set to expand its wings to China from April 26 as the first ever Bangladeshi carrier to explore Chinese air.

April 2, 2018
April 2, 2018

Sadharan Bima pays US-Bangla Tk 5.74cr in insurance claims

Sadharan Bima Corporation has paid $0.7 million or Tk 5.74 crore to US-Bangla Airlines in the first instalment as compensation against the carrier's insurance claim for the aircraft that crashed in Kathmandu last month.

March 28, 2018
March 28, 2018

US-Bangla plane crash: 3 survivors released from DMCH

Three survivors of the ill-fated US-Bangla plane crash are released from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).