Singapore Airlines has recently appointed a new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from this month. 

In a new development, Biman Bangladesh Airlines has adopted a strategic partnership with Sabre solutions to drive revenue growth through digital transformation.

Singapore Airlines has appointed Timothy Ouyang as new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from September.

Bangladeshi travellers returning from India are no longer subject to mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine, according to the Health Department in Benapole.

The government is going to set up facilities to provide Covid-19 test result within four to six hours before flying out of the country, said Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam.

For the first time in the country’s history, Biman Bangladesh Airlines has earned the capabilities to carry out C-check, a major maintenance work of the state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in the country with its management.

A new airline, Air Astra, is set to take off in January next year, becoming the eleventh private operator to enter the industry in the past 25 years.

All travellers entering Malaysia - including citizens - must verify their Covid-19 vaccination certificates with the authorities, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Adham Baba on Sunday (Sept 5).

The flight operation between Bangladesh and India under air bubble arrangement will resume today after a four-month recess due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is lifting a coronavirus ban on travelers from 10 countries including Bangladesh, India, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia, the presidential spokesperson said on Saturday.

Biman and US-Bangla airlines will resume flight operations to India under an air bubble agreement between Bangladesh and India from tomorrow after a four-month hiatus over coronavirus restrictions.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume flight operations on Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka route from September 5 under the air bubble agreement with India.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dhaka-Chennai route from September 5 under Air Bubble Agreement between Bangladesh and India.

A group of 18 Bangladeshi migrants who had been stranded in Lebanon arrived in Dhaka today from Beirut, after the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in close coordination with the governments of Bangladesh and Lebanon, facilitated their return.

Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh are likely to resume from tomorrow instead of today, sources at the civil aviation ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh said.

Flight operations under the air bubble agreement between India and Bangladesh are likely to resume from September 4 instead of tomorrow, sources at the Civil Aviation Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) have said.

Body of Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was flown to Dhaka from India’s Nagpur this morning.

Norwegian Air said on Tuesday it would not need to raise more cash as easing Covid-19 travel restrictions lifted bookings, although the budget carrier which has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings did not provide a 2021 outlook.

“If any doctor was on board the flight or if I were a doctor, the early demise of Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum could have been prevented,” said Bangladeshi expatriate Abdul Karim, who was on Biman’s Muscat-Dhaka flight that had to make an emergency landing in India’s Nagpur on August 28 after its pilot in command Capt Nawshad suffered a heart attack.

The body of Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qaiyum, who passed away in a Nagpur hospital yesterday, is likely to reach Dhaka on Thursday morning.