United Airways resumes operation tomorrow
After a three-day suspension over a conflict among board directors, the private carrier United Airways will resume operations tomorrow with domestic flights.
Flight operations on international routes will restart upon receiving clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) and completing GDS (global distribution system) requirements.
The decision of the operational resumption came from a closed-door meeting between newly formed board and immediate past chairman at the latter's residence this evening.
The new board requested Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury, who had stepped down from the post over the conflict, to retake the charges and he accepted.
The top brass of the troubled private carrier sat in the close-door meeting this afternoon.
The airline's flight operations director, M Eliash, earlier on Wednesday evening announced the suspension following the new board failed to come up with plans to keep the company afloat.
Members of the new board, reconstituted on Monday last after its founder Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury was forced to resign from the post of chairman and managing director, did not come to office for the next three days to steer the carrier out of the crisis.
The abrupt flight suspensions created sufferings for the carrier's passengers. Some 2,300 to 2,400 inbound and outbound passengers stranded due to the flights suspension.
Set up in 2007, the lone listed airline has 11 aircraft -- two Airbus 310-325s, five MD-83s, three ATR 72s and one DASH-8 100.
It was operating domestic flights to Chittagong, Sylhet, Jessore, Cox's Bazar, Rajshahi, Saidpur and Ishwardi. On the international routes, it was flying to Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, Kolkata, Jeddah, Bangkok, Muscat and Singapore.
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