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Flydubai announces 3rd Bangladesh destination

Flydubai will launch direct flights to Sylhet, Bangladesh from April 1, the Dubai discount carrier said in statement on Thursday. pic01257_lwThe service, which will start with five weekly flights and increase to daily flights from May 4, will be operated under a code-share agreement with Bangladesh’s Regent Airways. The Bangladesh airline put its flight code on the flydubai service, an airline spokesperson confirmed. It is flydubai’s third service to Bangladesh.

PIA BD flight operations stop till March 10

Pakistan International Airlines suspended flights operations to Bangladesh on Friday till March 10, owing to harassment of crew and passengers by Bangladeshi security agencies. pia“We have suspended flight operations to Bangladesh till March 10,” a PIA spokesperson said, according to Express News. Citing harassment of PIA crew and passengers as the reason for suspension, the spokesperson added: “The protest will continue till action is taken.” On Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said they have contacted the Bangladesh High Comm...

Biman sitting idle with large planes  

All six Boeing 777s of Biman remain underutilised for lack of long-haul flights and pilots, causing the national carrier to lose crores of taka every year. “More than 20 percent of the operational capacity of the planes remain unutilised, as we could not open routes in line with their capacity,” an official at Biman’s operations department told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, reports the Daily Star. The calculation was made given that each of the six aircraft flies 12 hours a day, the official said. biman-300Sometimes, a shortage of pi...

Biman’s bid to appoint aircraft procurement agency hits snag

Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ move to appoint a reputed international agency for assisting it in sourcing a variety of aircraft faces a setback as it did not yet get any acceptable response. The last date for submission of tender paper was April 24, 2014, but sources confirmed that the response has not been satisfactory at all, reports UNB. “Biman has floated offer several times in this regard, but is yet to get any considerable response,” a well-placed source at Biman told UNB. bimanCurrently, the national flag carrier has no small aircraft for operating ...

Biman’s Dhk-NY-Dhk flight resumption bid looks futile

bimanBiman Bangladesh Airlines’ desperate move to resume its Dhaka-NY-Dhaka flight by hiring crew maintenance insurance (CMI) from a category-1 country looks to be futile as the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) falls far short of attaining the category-1 status. “It’s not possible right now,” said a well-placed source at Biman, the national flag carrier. He mentioned that it is not about hiring aircraft from a category-1 country; it is also related to making the CAAB more time-befitting one through modernising its organogram and addressing sec...

India downgraded in aviation safety, joins Bangladesh, Indonesia

India has joined countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh that have a Category 2 rating in aviation safety. US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authority has downgraded India's aviation safety rating, citing a lack of safety oversight, meaning the country's carriers cannot increase flights to the world's biggest aviation market and face extra checks for existing ones. As of November 22, FAA kept 81 of the 96 countries reviewed in Category 1. India had been in Category 1 since 1997, the FAA said in a statement. air India
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