Flights on China, domestic routes resumes

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DHAKA, April 20, 2021 (BSS) – Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh
(CAAB) has decided to resume flights on domestic routes under limited
scale from tomorrow while allowed four airlines to operate flight from
and to Bangladesh to China.

Limited numbers of scheduled passenger domestic flight will be
resumed from tomorrow, a CAAB circular said here tonight.

The resumption will be taken place after 16 days of suspension as
CAAB imposed ban on passenger flight operations on all domestic routes
following countrywide restriction to check spread of COVID-19 from
April 5.

Moreover, the CAAB decided to allow Biman Bangladesh Airlines,
Us-Bangla Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Chine Strother Airlines
to resume flights between Bangladesh and China.

Meanwhile, The US-Bangla airlines today announced that they would
operate a weekly flight on Dhaka-Guangzhou-Dhaka from Saturday next.

On Monday, CAAB extended the ongoing ban on all international
flights another week till April 28 following the government’s decision
to extend the existing lockdown.

As per the earlier decision, special flights to Saudi Arabia, Oman,
Qatar, UAE, and Singapore will continue amid the flight suspension, so
that stranded Bangladeshi expatriate workers here can go back their
workplaces, CAAB official source said.