Sources at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport said airlines canceled 23 domestic and international flights on Saturday. They canceled 40 flights on Sunday and 39 flights today, Monday. Overall, airlines have canceled 102 flights in the last three days. Passengers traveling to the affected destinations faced a lot of difficulties due to the cancellation. People […]
Direct flight operations between Pakistan and Bangladesh began today, Thursday as Biman Bangladesh Airlines launched its inaugural flight from Dhaka to Karachi. The resumption of direct flights after a gap of 14 years is an important milestone in strengthening connectivity and bilateral engagement between the two countries, a press release said. The fully loaded inaugural […]
Bangladesh Biman starts operating flights to Rome initially from 2 April, 1981 and closed on April 6, 2015, after suffering financial losses due to massive fuel consumption by the then DC-10 carrier. Between March 27 and March 31, flight BG-355 will depart Dhaka at 2:00 am local time every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and arrive […]
Two international flights landed at Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport after failing to land at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport due to dense fog. The flights will depart for the destination once the weather conditions become normal. On Saturday, a US-Bangla flight from Doha, Qatar landed in Sylhet at 8:55 am and another US-Bangla flight from […]
Two flights carrying passengers from two Middle-Eastern countries landed at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in India instead of Dhaka due to dense fog last night. HSIA executive director Group Captain Mohammad Kamrul Islam said flights started landing at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) after 9:30 am on Sunday when visibility improved. […]
Flights of seven airlines Jazeera Airlines, US Bangla Airlines, Air Arabia Airlines, Fly Dubai Airlines, Qatar Airways, Oman Air and Indigo Airlines were delayed due to dense fog. Earlier on Tuesday morning, two international flights bound for Dhaka airport carrying passengers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia made an emergency landing at Sylhet Osmani International Airport […]
State-run airlines sold a minor number of tickets (4.5 percent) through their websites. Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director (MD) Shafiul Azeem told Prothom Allo that Biman sold tickets against 77 per cent of the total seats, while they had a target of selling 74 per cent seats. The officials, in many cases, have to keep […]