Air France (AIRF.PA) cancelled two more flights to Moscow on Monday after Russian authorities failed to approve flight plans that avoid Belarus airspace.

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.

Amid pressure by expatriates’ welfare ministry, Biman Bangladesh Airlines today agreed to look into reducing the exorbitant airfare to different Middle East destination resulting in huge financial burden on the country’s expatriate workers.

Sixty-one Bangladeshis and foreign nationals, including Thais, reached Dhaka from Thailand by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

Air France and Lufthansa have received approval from Russia for flight routes to the country that avoid Belarusian airspace, the airlines said on Saturday.

US-Bangla Airlines has increased the number of flights on domestic routes due to the increase in the number of passengers. In the last two days, the private airline operator has added 6 flights to different destinations.

After nine days of suspension, Biman Bangladesh Airlines today resumed flights to Saudi Arabia in line with the new travel advisory issued by the Gulf country.

Around 1,000 Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriates missed their flights in two days since yesterday as they failed to book hotels for quarantine stay in the Gulf country.

Sufferings of Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers centering hotel booking for institutional quarantine reached its climax as Saudi Arabian Airlines announced that they won't be able to facilitate migrant workers from now on regarding hotel bookings.

The validity of iqamas (residency permits), exit and re-entry visas, as well as visit visas of expatriates who are currently stuck in countries facing travel ban, will be extended until June 2, 2021 free of cost, the Saudi Press Agency reported citing a royal order.

Tarik A Alowaidi, country manager of Saudi Airlines in Bangladesh, today asked all Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers to book their hotels for quarantine stays through the airline’s holiday website.

The US State Department on Monday urged against travel to Japan because of a new wave of coronavirus cases just two months before the Tokyo Olympics are set to begin.

Malaysians and other travellers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan who have been given permission to enter Malaysia will now have to undergo an extended mandatory quarantine period of 21 days.

Bahrain is suspending entry of travelers from countries on its “Red List”, which includes India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, from today (May 24), state news agency BNA reported.

Thai border controls will tighten after the discovery of three local cases of the South African COVID-19 variant stemming from illegal border crossings, authorities said on Sunday, as the country grapples to contain its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.

Several thousand Saudi Arabia-bound Bangladeshi migrant workers are facing untold sufferings due to new travel advisory issued by the kingdom that requires medical insurance covering the risk of covid-19 infections and hotel reservations for institutional quarantine.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended flights to Saudi Arabia for five days starting today.

Japan has decided to impose entry ban on travellers who have been in Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka in the last 14 days before arrival to the East Asian country to prevent the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant first found in India.

Sudan will restrict all travellers who have visited India within the prior two weeks, the country's health emergency committee said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia plans to soon reopen to foreign tourists, a senior tourism official said on Monday after the kingdom announced the lifting of quarantine restrictions for certain foreign arrivals.