Grounded Biman
Mahmood Choudhury, On e-mail
I have seen Biman passengers abandoned in various airports over the last thirty-five or so years and shuddered. I quit flying Biman about the early 80s, after repeatedly suffering their chronic abuse. I never complained. I was not an important person, nor I knew any big shots to pull a favour for me. You must have heard how Biman people would block seats for sale and try to market them as a favour etc, and then the planes even flew out partially empty. They opened routes to places where Bengalees do not usually fly much. They allowed politicians to take percentage, etc. They did not pay their fuel bills, as you know, and still they could not make it financially viable. Who needs a "dushto goru" ? It is not the case of a blind uncle is better than no uncle at all. The Bangladesh government needs to practise free market behavior and a free market does not allow for bad apples. If a successor company floats itself with a truly customer friendly and competitive spirit they will do fine on their own. The brutal survival of the competent and the fittest is the way to go.
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