Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start selling flight tickets for New York from February.
“We are planning to start sale of tickets for our New York flights sometimes during first half of February,” Kevin Steele, managing director of the national flag carrier said during a press briefing on Monday.
“Twice-weekly flights from Dhaka-Birmingham-New York are scheduled to start from June 4,” he said.
Steele said Biman was waiting for the finalisation of a lease agreement with Egypt Air and also for the approvals of the government and its own Board of Directors.
Biman is planning to take on lease two Boeing 777 aircraft from Egypt Air to start the New York flights, Steele said.
“The lease will be taken for 5 years, and – subject to Biman’s board approval this evening – we hope to sign the lease agreement in the next few days, with one aircraft arriving in February, and another in March.”
Biman stopped flying to New York after Bangladesh was banned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of US in 1996.
A country must have a Category 1 rating from the FAA if it intends to conducts flights to the US.
Security is usually their top priority.
Earlier on Aug 17 last year Bangladesh signed an open sky agreement with the United States to resume flights to New York.
More Biman flights
Besides resuming operations to New York the national flag carrier has announced flights for new destinations.
“We will start flying to a number of new destinations this summer, said Steele Biman’s first foreign MD.
“Flight to Frankfurt will restart in April with twice-weekly flights via Rome, and tickets should be on sale in a few days.”
Flights to Guangzhou, Kunming and Guwahati will begin later in the summer, he added.
Source: Bd news24
