DHAKA, May 4, 2019 (BSS) – The country’s four local airlines including
national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh so far cancelled 10 flights and
rescheduled others mostly on domestics routes since this morning as the
severe cyclone is passing over Bangladesh.
Novoair was forced to cancel highest seven flights while Biman, US-
Bangla Airlines and Regent Airways each cancel one of their flight since this
morning, officials of the airlines told BSS.
“We have cancelled Dhaka-Chattogram-Dhaka flight and delayed our
morning’s Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka flight to afternoon,” said Biman’s General
Manager (PR) Shakil Meraj said.
Mesbah-ul-Islam, marketing and sales head of Novoair, operates highest
number of domestic flights currently, said they cancelled six domestic
flights – three to Chattogram and one each to Jashore, Cox’s Bazar and
Saidpur and one international flight to Kolkata.
“So far, we had to cancel only our Saidpur flight, however, we
rescheduled other flights including the Kolkata one,” said US-Bangla Airlines
General Manager (Marketing Support & PR) Kamrul Islam.
Besides, Regent Airways cancelled its Kolkata flight as the Indian civil
aviation authority shut down Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International
Airport there due to the Fani, Regent Airways director marketing and sales
Sohail Majid said.
The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) is keeping country’s all
the airports operational with extra causation under weather alert due to the
Fani.
“Our all airports are functioning following standard operating procedure
(SOP) with due caution,” CAAB’s Member (Operation) Air Commodore M Mostafizur
Rahman said.