Dhaka: Australia's borders for international travel are likely to remain closed till late 2021, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg flagged the distant date in his post-budget address to the National Press Club in Canberra in early October.

10 October, 2020

Dhaka: Qatar Airways makes San Francisco it latest US destination. Beginning December 15, the carrier will operate four flights a week to San Francisco from its hub in Doha.

Qatar Airways will fly the 8,087-mile route with Airbus A350-900...

Dhaka: Internationally, tourism will plunge between 60 – 80 per cent by the end of the year. The UN World Tourism Organisation makes the forecast in their latest report.

The prediction, broad and probably conservative, will put mill...

Dhaka: Singapore Airlines will resume scheduled passenger flights to Dhaka from October 20 after a hiatus following the coronavirus pandemic.

The airline will operate twice weekly flights every Tuesday and Thursday using the Airbus A3...

Dhaka: Qatar Airways on October 7 announced it has increased flight frequency to nine weekly flights to and from Bangladesh.

The airline's flight 638 will depart Doha at 18:05 and reach Dhaka at 02:10 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sa...

Dhaka: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that the airline industry will burn through $77 billion in cash during the second half of 2020 (almost $13 billion/month or $300,000 per minute), despite the restart of operations. The slow recovery in air tr...

Dubai: Emirates has announced it will resume flights to Budapest (from 21 October), Bologna (1st November), Dusseldorf (1st November), Hamburg (1st November) and Lyon (4th November), expanding its European network to 31 destinations, and offering customers around the world c...

Dhaka: The US Embassy in Dhaka has started accepting interview-waiver applications for B1/B2 (tourism, business, and medical) visas along with non-immigrant visa categories -- C, C1/D, F, I, J, M, O, and Q.

However, processing time could ...

Dhaka: Saudi Arabian authorities on October 4 reopened the Muslim holy places for Umrah pilgrimage after a six-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Following coronavirus protocols, the first batch of Umrah pilgrims arrived in the...

Dhaka: Standard Chartered Bangladesh has received all the regulatory approvals for issuing BDT 850 crore zero-coupon bond, and the bank is going to begin subscription in October.

"We are going to open the private placement of the bon...