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BIMAN-DOMESTIC FLIGHT
Biman to resume domestic flights from July 25
DHAKA, July 22, 2020 (BSS) – Biman Bangladesh Airlines today decided
to resume its domestic flight operation on three destination –
Chattogram, Sylhet and Syedpur – from and to the capital from July 25,
airline official said.
The national flag carrier is going to resume its domestic operation
after practically four months as it operated only one flight to
Syedpur when the government reopened internal air connectivity on June
1 after more than two months of suspension for containing outbreak of
COVID-19 pandemic.
After operating the lone flight on the first day of flight
resumption, Biman kept suspending its operation on domestic routes due
to lack of passengers, however, two private carriers – US-Bangla
airline and Novoair – have been operating domestic flights since June
1.
The government had first resumed the air connectivity on the three
routes – Chattogram, Sylhet, Saidpur – out of its seven domestic
destinations while it reopened flight operation to Jashore, Barisal
and Rajshahi on June 11, July 12 and 21 respectively.
Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) is yet to give
permission to operate flights to the last domestic route on Cox’s
Bazar as airport in that destination was not prepared to follow CAAB’s
prescribed health guideline.
According to CAAB guideline, airlines are operating flight keeping
at least 30 percent seats vacant on each flight to ensure social
distancing by keeping at least gap of a seat between two passengers if
they are not from the same family.
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