Staff Reporter :
The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) has extended ongoing ban on flight operation till April 30 to and from all European countries and the nations that restricted the entry of Bangladeshis to their territories as well as on all domestic routes over the coronavirus fear.
The commercial scheduled international flights will remain suspended till April 30 to and from 16 countries – Bahrain, Bhutan, Hongkong, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and the UK, according to a CAAB circular issued on Saturday.
Along with that, it said, all domestic flights will remain suspended till April 30 while cargo, special, air ambulance, relief carrying flights and emergency landing aircraft remain out of this ban.
Currently, flights are being operated from Bangladesh to only China.
This is the third time Bangladesh extended flight suspension period as the government earlier extended it twice from March 31 to April 7 and then from April 7 to 14 while the ban on some international flights first began on March 16.
On March 21, the CAAB imposed a ban on commercial flight operation to and from 10 countries – Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Malaysia, Oman, Singapore and India while suspension of all domestic flight operations was started from March.
