Biman Bangladesh Airlines re-launched its regular fleets to Dhaka-Delhi-Dhaka route on Saturday.
Biman’s BG-097 took off at 12:45 local time thus fulfilling the carrier’s earlier commitment for resuming the operations within the shortest possible time, Biman said in a news release.
A good number of Biman officials were present to give reception to the passengers of the inaugural flight, it said.
The designated flight BG-097 will depart Dhaka on every Tuesday and Saturday at 12:45 and on the same days, another designated flight BG-098 will depart Delhi at 14:45, both local times, said Biman GM Mosharraf Hossain while talking to New Age.
Now with the inclusion of Delhi to Biman’s key-cities network, the number of Biman’s international destination increases to 18.
The airlines and its hundreds of thousands of discerning passengers on the sector have been looking forward to the moment since the new CEO’s announcement of it, only a couple of weeks ago, the Biman release said.
Biman said that starting from 1992; Delhi had been in Biman’s network until September 2012 when the airline had to suspend its flights to Delhi in the wake of an acute shortage of aircraft.
The airline would resume flights to Hong Kong on May 13, another destination that was also closed in September 2012 for the same reason.
With the restart of Saturday’s operation, hundreds of thousands of passengers from both ends will be benefited by availing Biman’s flights twice a week to and from Delhi. The passengers travel by the route mainly for business and medical reasons.
It is hoped that the route would help increase Biman’s revenue substantially too, the release said.
-With New Age input
