Novoair offers 15% discount on fares

Novoair, a private airline in Bangladesh, has announced a 15 per cent discount on the ticket price for all routes.

To enjoy the offer, passengers have to purchase tickets from the Novoair pavilion at the Dhaka Travel Mart-2023, which is scheduled to kick off at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka on May 18, the carrier said in a press release yesterday.

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The tourism fair will continue until May 20.

The 7-fleet carrier operates 19 flights daily, including 18 flights on domestic routes and one on the Dhaka-Kolkata route.

The airline said it would provide a free hotel stay for two nights in Cox's Bazar if passengers buy return tickets for two on the Cox's Bazar route. Passengers will have to travel by June 25.

Mes-Bah-Ul Islam, head of marketing of Novoair, said the carrier transported 770,000 passengers in 2022.

It aims to carry more than 800,000 air travellers in 2023.

Islam said increased prices of aviation fuel in the domestic market, reduction in the flow of passengers on the Dhaka-Jashore and Dhaka-Barishal routes after the opening of Padma Bridge, and reduced purchasing capacity of general people for high inflation has affected demand for domestic air travel.

Yet he said, overall domestic air travel might increase this calendar year from a year ago.

Local carriers transported 50.5 lakh domestic travellers in 2022, which was slightly below the number of passengers carried in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the aviation industry, according to data by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh.