Dhaka : Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited, the national flag carrier - that is yet to get out of limping existence_ has been crowned with a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) - the number 42 in 49 years.
On January 4, 1973, Biman Bangladesh Airlines was born, through a...

Dhaka : The private airlines of Bangladesh are still struggling and searching for solid ground because of government neglect and wrong policies.  
Even now when the struggling domestic airline industry needs and expecting, all types of positive support for surviv...

Dhaka : Already struggling for survival, three operating airlines of the country-Biman Bangladesh Airlines, NOVOAIR and US-Bangla Airlines-due to situation created by Covid-19 pandemic, are going to bear heavier burden because of latest hike of jet fuel price.
The fue...

Dhaka : The tourism and aviation sectors of the country, worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic similar to other countries in the world, received no bailout package in the national budget.
Lack of bailout package for tourism, hospitality and aviation sectors has come...

_By Raquib Siddiqi
Dhaka : It is not an exaggeration to say that the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the global airline industry into a tailspin. The potent combination of trip cancellations and country-specific restrictions on international flights, has created a stagge...

Dhaka : Covid-19 has hit the global airline industry very hard,  and similar to other countries, airlines of Bangladesh-both public and private-are now searching ways to survive the unusual crisis, created by the pandemic for more than a year now.
Of the three op...

Dhaka : The second wave of coronavirus has hit the aviation sector of the country with a serious blow while it was in efforts to revive from the losses it incurred last year following the first wave of the virus spread. The second hit further rubs salt into the wound of the ...

Dhaka : A new tourism master plan for Bangladesh to facilitate the country's tourism industry in using its abundance of resources and potentials to flourish was scheduled to be prepared by June this year by the national tourism organisation Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB)...

Dhaka : In just 48 years since its creation, Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC), the national tourism organisation of the country, have had 37 chairmen, if tenures of three other persons who were made in-charge are not taken into account.
Despite huge potentials, t...

Dhaka : The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), has - after long last - taken initiative to make domestic air travel of the country more efficient and user-friendly. With the completion of the current development plans, sufferings of the air travellers are expecte...