Bangladesh’s largest private airline GMG Airlines has added Riyadh to its list of destinations by launching direct flights from Dhaka.
The inaugural flight landed at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia M Fazlul Karim and high officials of King Khalid International Airport were present when GMG’s maiden flight to Riyadh arrived.
The airline is deploying its Boeing 767-300 ER aircraft to operate the direct flights to Riyadh thrice a week.
GMG, earlier, entered the lucrative Saudi Arabia market by launching flights to Jeddah in August.
GMG Managing Director Shahab Sattar said, “Adding Riyadh is a big boost for the airline considering the large number of Bangladeshi migrant workers living in Saudi Arabia.”
“GMG Airlines is expanding its global network to connect more destinations.”
The pioneer in aviation business in Bangladesh has taken up a substantial modernisation project to accelerate its growth. As part of this project, GMG Airlines changed its logo in May.
To serve demand of the increasing number of customers, GMG Airlines added new aircraft to its fleet, launched a new web portal and gradually expanded the network of destinations.
GMG will soon manage electronic tickets via interfaces from a range of devices, such as cellular phones, check-in kiosk, online check-in, boarding cards and baggage handling through a departure control system.
The airline started operations on April 6, 1998 with domestic services and launched international flights in September 2004, flying to Chittagong and Kolkata
