Four out of 12 special flights, scheduled for today, left the Dhaka airport as of 3:00pm today. Of the four flights, Biman Bangladesh Airlines operated two one each on Dhaka-Dammam and Dhaka-Riyadh routes, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, told The Daily Star. He also said Oman Air operated one flight on Dhaka-Muscat route
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Seven of 12 special flights depart
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Seven out of 12 scheduled special flights left the Dhaka airport as of 9:00pm yesterday.
Of the seven flights, Biman Bangladesh Airlines operated two flights, one each on Dammam and Riyadh route; Oman Air operated one flight to Muscat; US-Bangla Airlines operated three flights, one each to Doha, Dubai, and Muscat; and Emirates operated one flight to Dubai, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), told The Daily Star.
Amid the nationwide lockdown that has been imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus, around 1,600 expatriate workers remained stuck and could not return to their workplaces in Saudi Arabia, Muscat, Dubai, and Doha on these flights, sources at the HSIA said.
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