Vietnam yesterday expressed its interest to launch direct flights between Hanoi and Dhaka.

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported.

The national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines has resumed its Dhaka-Abu Dhabi flight from today.

The national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to operate two flights from Dhaka to Abu Dhabi from tomorrow, and five flights from Dhaka to Dubai from October 4.

Bangladesh’s aviation sector will grow almost threefold over the next 15 years, State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali said today.

Two former top officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday submitted their statement before a parliamentary body regarding taking lease of two Boeing 777 aircraft from Egypt, which led to huge losses at Biman.

Air Marshal (retd) Jamal Uddin Ahmed, former chairman of Biman Bangladesh Airlines board and Mosaddeq Ahmed, former Biman MD, today submitted written statements before a parliamentary body over leasing two Boeing 777 aircraft from Egypt that led to a loss of Tk1,223 crore in total.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume direct flights on Dhaka-Kathmandu route from October 9 and Dhaka-Medina and Dhaka-Kuwait routes from October 10.

A new private airline of the country Air Astra has officially submitted its application for No-Objection Certificate (NOC) to the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume direct flights between Dhaka and New York soon, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said.

US-Bangla Airlines is going to start operating flights to Male in Maldives, one of the popular tourist destinations in South Asia, from third week of November.

Different airlines of the country are struggling to survive due to the sky-high surcharge rate imposed by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), according to the country’s private airline operators.

 Four people were killed when a small Russian passenger plane with 14 passengers and two crew on board made an emergency landing in a forest in southeastern Siberia on Sunday, the emergency ministry said.

Good news for the Bangladeshis who want to see the pyramids in Egypt as direct flights between Dhaka and Cairo are set to begin on November 1.

Good news for the Bangladeshis who want to see the Pyramids in Egypt as the direct flight between Dhaka and Cairo is set to begin on November 1.

Singapore Airlines has recently appointed a new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from this month. 

Singapore Airlines has appointed Timothy Ouyang as new general manager for Bangladesh with effect from September.

For the first time in the country’s history, Biman Bangladesh Airlines has earned the capabilities to carry out C-check, a major maintenance work of the state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in the country with its management.

A new airline, Air Astra, is set to take off in January next year, becoming the eleventh private operator to enter the industry in the past 25 years.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on the Dhaka-Chennai route from September 5 under Air Bubble Agreement between Bangladesh and India.