Bangladesh today reopened international flight operation on a limited scale after nearly three months of flight stoppage for containing outbreaks of COVOD-19 pandemic.
A Qatar Airways’ commercial flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 1:58 am from Doha with 33 transit passengers and flew back to Doha with 274 transit passengers as part of international flight operation’s resumption from Bangladesh, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) chairman Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman said to Bangladesh Songbad Songstha.
On June 11, the government decided to resume the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight on the Dhaka-London-Dhaka route and had given permission to Qatar Airways to operate three weekly flights on Doha-Dhaka-Doha route in the condition of carrying only transit passengers from today.
The CAAB chairman stated they took all preparations to operate the international flight as per a set of health guidelines prepared following the instruction of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Rahman told, he held a coordination meeting on Monday with station managers and ground handlers of airlines to remind them that they must follow CAAB’s health guidelines of ensuring hygiene and social distancing while operating the international flights.
