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Seven of 12 special flights depart
Migrant workers gathered in front of Saudia office in Dhaka today (April 18, 2021).
Seven out of 12 scheduled special flights left the Dhaka airport as of 9:00pm yesterday.
Of the seven flights, Biman Bangladesh Airlines operated two flights, one each on Dammam and Riyadh route; Oman Air operated one flight to Muscat; US-Bangla Airlines operated three flights, one each to Doha, Dubai, and Muscat; and Emirates operated one flight to Dubai, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), told The Daily Star.
Amid the nationwide lockdown that has been imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus, around 1,600 expatriate workers remained stuck and could not return to their workplaces in Saudi Arabia, Muscat, Dubai, and Doha on these flights, sources at the HSIA said.
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The return of several thousand Bangladeshi expatriate workers to different countries, especially Saudi Arabia, suffered a major blow today the first day of the beginning of weeklong special flights from Dhaka due to a cancellation of a total of eight flights.
Of the eight flights, Biman was forced to cancel five flights four bound for Saudi Arabia and one bound four Singapore while Fly Dubai cancelled two Dubai bound flights, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan told The Daily Star.
Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal, managing director and CEO of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, told this correspondent even after getting slots (authorisation to either take-off or land), the Saudi authorities cancelled landing permission of Biman s four flights at the last moment.
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