[ALOCHONA] Aviation: Best Air & United Airways to start international flights

Best Air, United Airways to start
int’l operations soon
Courtesy New Age 1/4/08

With the government permitting flights on international routes, two new generation private airlines have started their full-swing preparations for landing on lucrative foreign destinations.
   A Civil Aviation ministry meeting on March 24 recommended some international route permissions for Best Air and United Airways, officials concerned said.
   Syed Mohammed Zobayer, secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, confirmed New Age on Sunday that recommendations for international routes for Best Air and United Airways had been forwarded to the civil aviation authority.
   Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh Shakeb Iqbal Khan Majlish told New Age that they would start work on completing necessary documentations within a day or two.
   ‘Not only Best Air or United Air, we want all private airlines to fly the international routes if they attain necessary capacities,’ he said, indicating government’s supportive policy for new generation airlines.
   He hoped that by the end of April, CAAB would complete all necessary documentations regarding designations of the airlines for international routes.
   Best Air and United Airways permissions, in principle, for Bangkok, Dubai, Kolkata, Kathmandu, Chennai, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait and Bahrain. Most of the frequencies are permitted from Dhaka and some from Chittagong.
   Kunming, London routes have also been provided, on condition, to the Airlines
   Chairman of Best Air M Haider Uzzaman told New Age that they would start flying Dhaka to Bangkok from April 14 as almost every necessary preparation had been completed in advance.
   ‘After Bangkok, Best Air will be flying to Kuala Lumpur, Kolkata, Chennai and Dubai,’ he said.
   Best Air, with its major stakes owned by Kuwait-based Aqiq Aviation, now operates a wide-body Boeing 737, 118-seat aircraft in domestic route and plans to use same aircraft in Bangkok route.
   But for flying on the new routes, Best Air has leased another 737 while negotiating at least another, said Haider. ‘Our second aircraft will land in Dhaka in April 15.’
   Captain Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury, chairman and managing director of the United Airways, told New Age that the Airline was almost ready to start operation on the Dhaka-Kolkata route towards the end of May and to Kathmandu immediately after.
   United Airways is wholly owned by Bangladeshis and Non-resident Bangladeshis and it is the only private airline having two brand new Dash 8-100 aircraft, each having 37 seats.
   Officials of the airline told New Age that they would be able to operate flights in regional routes using their own aircrafts but they started negotiation to lease an 266-seat Airbus 310.
   Ahmed said United had plans to invest Tk 2,000 crore in the next five years to spread its wings on international routes.\

 

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