Dhaka-UK direct cargo flights resume today

Guide load flights from Dhaka to London continue today after Biman Bangladesh Airlines has gotten the testament to restart the administration around a month after withdrawal of a two-year boycott. 

At a question and answer session on Tuesday, Biman Bangladesh General Manager Shakil Meraj said Biman will begin sending direct air payload to the UK with a flight of the national banner transporter, BG-001, from Wednesday morning. 

In an email message on Monday night, Department of Transportation (DFT)- the UK educated Biman about the obtaining of ACC3 or Air Cargo Carrier review confirmation - an essential for starting the non-stop flights to Britain. 

The Biman official said the specialists lost about Tk 150 crore in income because of the restriction on freight flights to European nations over the most recent two years. 

The national banner transporter earned an income of Tk 351 crore for load conveying and dealing with amid the 2014-15 monetary year yet it declined to Tk 315 crore and Tk 244 crore in 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years separately. 

Prior on March 8, 2016, the United Kingdom forced a prohibition on the immediate load transportation from Bangladesh, claiming low safety efforts at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). 

In the previous two years, a far reaching activity was taken to build the general wellbeing at the air terminal as per the European Union's security models.