DHAKA: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Tuesday opened the doors to a new world-class medical facility in Abu Dhabi for its employees.The complex includes an aviation clinic, employee visa medical centre, as well as an Emirates ID centre.Located at Etihad

DHAKA: A 13-member newly elected committee of Aviation Operators Association of Bangladesh (AOAB) has taken over the charges with effect from December 7. Anjan Chowdhury (Square Air) and Masudur Rahman (Galaxy Airlines) were again elected as President and Secretary General. The other

DHAKA: US-Bangla Airlines has won the best award at home for the current year in consideration of its in-flight service, number of flights, on-time performance, reasonable fare and number of destinations.Bangladesh Travelers Forum conferred the award to the airlines, a press release, sent

DHAKA: Biman passenger sales agent and cargo sales agent received Biman Bangladesh Airlines ‘Top Sales Award’ in London. Bangladesh civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon handed over the award to the agents on November 3, said a press release. Biman Board chairman

DHAKA: US-Bangla Airlines is set to organize a three-day ‘Customer Success Summit Cox’s Bazar 2015’ from November 26.The program, first of its kind in Bangladesh aviation history, will be held at Ocean Paradise Hotel in Cox’s Bazar district, says a press release issued by the USBA

CHITTAGONG: One of the cabin crews of US-Bangla Airlines (USBA) with absolute politeness told the passenger sitting beside the emergency exit of the jet, ‘In case of any emergency you might do some help to us.’ The passenger also agreed accordingly.However, such politeness is rare in

DHAKA: Biman Bangladesh Airlines started collecting increased excise duty from passengers of its domestic and international flights following a government decision.The increased excise duty has been imposed since June 4, says a press release.According to the release, domestic air

BARISAL: After two months of national career’s flights between Dhaka and Barisal, private airliner US-Bangla Airlines announced their operation in the same route from July 10.They will operate flights four days (Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) in a week.The airlines sources said

DHAKA: Air Arabia, known as low-cost airliner, has come out with a special holiday package to Cairo and Istanbul for people travelling from Dhaka.Air Arabia Dhaka office assistant manager (sales) Mohammad Maniruzzaman told banglanews that the return airfare from Cairo is priced at Tk

DHAKA: Despite directives of the Prime minister Sheikh Hasina twice, Biman Bangladesh Airlines is yet to fix name plaques inside of its four Boeing aircrafts. Her expectations and instructions over the national career are thus being ignored time to time.PM herself named newly added four

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines will remain an international full-fledged service carrier and not a regional carrier.It will also retain all the domestic routes.Termination letters were sent to 20,000 employees Monday. Of that number, a total of 6,000 staff will have their contracts terminated

Dhaka: Emirates Airlines is being blessed with immense facilities in Bangladesh though the country’s national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines is not getting any facility in the Sheikdom of Middle East.For last few years Bangladeshis are even not given any visa by UAE.Last year during

DHAKA: Sri Lanka’s lower cost airliner Mihin Lanka will purchase foods from Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) from Tuesday.The declaration was made when a Mihin Lanka delegation including general manager Aruna Ratnayake and station manager Misbah Al Ahmed Mazumdar visited BFCC in

DHAKA: Emirates Group, comprising Emirates airline and dnata, plans to hire over 11,000 new staff in the coming year across its business, in line with its projected growth across six continents.This would increase its staff size by six per cent by March 2016. Approximately half of the

DHAKA: Emirates, a global connector of people, places and business has recognised winners of its recent quiz competition to publicise the launch of its new route to Chicago, USA.At a ceremony held at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday, Ismail Bhuiyan, Emirates’

DHAKA: Le Méridien Dhaka has recently joined hands with International Club (IC) for the annual tennis tournament event - 2014 Interclub Tennis Competition which began on September 21, 2014 where all the Expatriate Clubs in Dhaka are participating. Participating Clubs include – Bagha

DHAKA: Emirates, a global connector of people and economies, will grow its services to and from Milan with the upgrade of one of its daily Boeing 777-300 services to an A380 from 1st December.  This will be the first ever permanently scheduled A380 service to Milan Malpensa Airport.

DHAKA: Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, launched its fourth flights on Dhaka-London-Dhaka route on Friday.  Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon formally inaugurated the flight at boarding bridge-16 of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city

DHAKA: Biman Bangladesh Airlines stopped its Dhaka-Frankfurt route after six months of inauguration due to frequent loss. The last flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines left Dhaka for Frankfurt on Monday carrying only 21 passengers. Sources said the flight left Dhaka at noon and the

FROM DUBAI: Can you imagine watching over 1,800 channels of premium entertainment or enjoying latest and best movies, television programs, audio and games at 35,000 feet above sea level?  Sure, you can, only if you are a passenger of Emirates. You can also make phone call, use internet,