US-Bangla to increase flights to Kuala Lumpur

FE Team | Published: August 23, 2020 23:30:08

US-Bangla Airlines has decided to increase its flight frequency on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka route to three from two weekly flights from September 1, reports BSS.
The airline will operate flights to Kuala Lumpur from Dhaka on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from September 1 next, says a press release issued on Sunday.
The US-Bangla Airlines, the country's largest private carrier in terms of fleet size, resumed flights to the Malaysian destination on Aug 16 after nearly five months as the busy air route was suspended for containing the Covid-19 outbreak in March.
Both Bangladesh and Malaysian civil aviation authorities took the decision on resumption of flights between the two countries on a limited scale under a set of regulations.
National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines also resumed its operation on the route with two weekly flights, on every Tuesday and Wednesday, on August 18 last, airlines sources said.
Currently, passengers with permanent residency, second home status, diplomatic status, work permit and medical ground under certain conditions only can travel to Malaysia from Bangladesh, official sources of Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) said.
Tourists are not being allowed to travel to Malaysia, it added.
On March 21, the CAAB first imposed a ban on commercial international flight operation to and from 10 countries - Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Malaysia, Oman and Singapore - due to the pandemic.