The Hajj flight has started on a sour note with 163 pilgrims facing lot of hardship on the first day of the flight as Biman’s Boeing 747 aircraft, leased from Nigerian airlines Cabo, did not get clearance from Saudi Arabia. As its newly acquired Boeing did not get the requisite certificate, Biman finally pressed […]
The first Hajj flight from Bangladesh took off for Saudi Arabia Thursday, setting off plane sorties between Dhaka and Jeddah. The flight left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 5:45am carrying 505 pilgrims on a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet aircraft. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader inaugurated the Hajj flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International […]
