Govt set to adopt 'Open Sky Policy' for two months
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
FE Report
The government is going to adopt an 'Open Sky Policy' for a limited period of two months enabling airlines of Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia to carry Bangladeshi workers to those countries, official sources said.
"We have taken the move at a meeting with all stakeholders concerned today (Monday) to expedite manpower export," said a high official source who was present in the meeting.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, after a request of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE), arranged the meeting to resolve an impasse in connection to manpower export.
The impasse, due to non-availability of adequate number of seats on the outbound aircraft of all operating airlines has posed a major problem for about 50,000 expatriate workers, whose tenure of visa will expire by the next week, in Malaysia and Middle Eastern countries, sources said.
However, the meeting, headed by Sheikh Altaf Ali, secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, was attended by the representatives of the MoEWOE, Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, local and foreign airlines operators and recruiting agency concerned.
Sources said the meeting observed that currently all local and foreign air operators all together can carry 2100 passengers per day to those destinations while the number of waiting passengers is much higher.
The government is going to adopt an 'Open Sky Policy' for a limited period of two months enabling airlines of Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia to carry Bangladeshi workers to those countries, official sources said.
"We have taken the move at a meeting with all stakeholders concerned today (Monday) to expedite manpower export," said a high official source who was present in the meeting.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, after a request of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE), arranged the meeting to resolve an impasse in connection to manpower export.
The impasse, due to non-availability of adequate number of seats on the outbound aircraft of all operating airlines has posed a major problem for about 50,000 expatriate workers, whose tenure of visa will expire by the next week, in Malaysia and Middle Eastern countries, sources said.
However, the meeting, headed by Sheikh Altaf Ali, secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, was attended by the representatives of the MoEWOE, Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, local and foreign airlines operators and recruiting agency concerned.
Sources said the meeting observed that currently all local and foreign air operators all together can carry 2100 passengers per day to those destinations while the number of waiting passengers is much higher.