US-Bangla starts daily flights to Muscat tomorrow

US-Bangla Airlines is going to operate daily flights to Muscat from Dhaka via Chittagong from tomorrow to cater to the growing passenger traffic on the international route.

The airline will add one more flight from the capital with its existing six weekly flights to make it a daily flight to the Gulf city, the private carrier said in a statement yesterday.

It will fly from Dhaka at 9pm and from Chittagong at 10:45pm every day and will arrive in Muscat at 2am.

The flight will start from Muscat at 3am every day and will arrive in Chittagong at 9:30am and in Dhaka at 10:40am.

Since the introduction of its flights on the route on November 11 last year, the private carrier has received tremendous response from passengers, leading US-Bangla to announce daily flight operations on the route.

The two-way fare on the Dhaka-Muscat route, including taxes and surcharges, starts from Tk 38,607 and the ticket price for the Chittagong-Muscat route starts from Tk 40,557.

US-Bangla also operates on Dhaka-Kathmandu and Dhaka-Kolkata routes.

The airline also plans to expand international flights to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok, Doha and Guangzhou this year.

At present, it has two Boeing 737-800 and Dash three Dash-8Q400 aircraft in its fleet. US-Bangla, which started its journey in July 2014, also plans to add another Boeing 737-800 to its fleet in February.

On the domestic front, US-Bangla flies to Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Jessore, Sylhet, Saidpur, Rajshahi and Barisal.