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Special flight cancelled: Several hundred Middle East-bound workers protest in Dhaka thedailystar.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedailystar.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Axed flights leave migrants in the lurch
An exhausted migrant worker fell asleep on the floor of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital. Photo: Rashed Sumon, Amran Hossain
The return of several thousand Bangladeshi expatriate workers to their workplaces abroad, particularly in Saudi Arabia, suffered a major blow yesterday due to cancellation of eight flights from Dhaka.
National carrier Biman was forced to cancel five flights, four to Saudi Arabia and one to Singapore, while Fly Dubai cancelled two flights to Dubai, and US-Bangla Airlines cancelled a flight to Muscat, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, told The Daily Star.
Special flights cancelled Migrant workers protest in Dhaka 18 April 2021
Migrant workers block the road in front of the Saudi Arabian Airlines office in Dhaka\ s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, after their flights were cancelled on Saturday.
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Several hundred migrant workers demonstrated at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Saturday following cancellation special flights.
They also blocked capital s Karwan Bazar intersection, halting traffic movement on the road.
On the first day of the beginning of the special flights, a total of 14 flights were scheduled to take off and land at the HSIA.
But seven of the flights were cancelled due to lack of landing permission in countries and passengers, official sources said.
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