Best Air flies to Colombo, Male from Monday
Best Air, a private airline, flies two new international routes -- Colombo and Male -- from Monday, officials announced yesterday.
"This is for the first time in Bangladesh that a private airline has introduced direct flights to Colombo and Male," M Haider Uzzaman, chairman of Best Air, told a press briefing in Dhaka.
The carrier, which launched its operation on the domestic route in the mid-January this year with a single Boeing 737-200, launched its first international operations on Dhaka-Bangkok route a month earlier.
The carrier attempts to start the second international flights at a time when airlines across the world are cutting down their flights in the face of higher fuel costs.
Best Air, one of the five local carriers, came to share a slice of about 8 percent growth in aviation industry, also suspended its flights on the most-busiest domestic Dhaka-Chittagong route to avoid losses against the backdrop of poor traffic and rising fuel costs.
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