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.

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.

Global air travel will bounce back strongly by 2023 as countries roll out Covid-19 vaccines and learn to manage the pandemic, noted the International Air Transport Association (Iata).

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 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.

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.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has planned to resume flight operations to Saudi Arabia from May 29, nine days of flight suspension on this route.

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.

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.

A total of 585 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India due to the ongoing border closure returned to the country through Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria from April 26 to May 15, according to the data of Special Branch of Police in Brahmanbaria district.

Operations at Hili land port in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur resumed today to facilitate return of Bangladeshis stranded in India due to the border closure.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to start operating regular flights on Dhaka-Rajshahi-Dhaka route.

Considering the distress of Bangladeshis still stranded in India, three more land ports -- in addition to Benapole, Burimari and Akhaura -- would be opened for their entry from May 16.

The European Union's executive on Wednesday called on countries of the bloc to temporarily halt non-essential travel from India, to limit the spread of a Covid-19 variant.