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Operated and maintained by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, it is the second-largest international airport in Bangladesh after Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is used by the Bangladesh Air Force as a part of 'BAF Zahurul Haq Base'. It was formerly known as MA Hannan International Airport, named after Awami ...
It is located in Kurmitola, 17 km (11 mi) from the city centre, in the northern part of Dhaka. The airport is also used as a base for the Bangladesh Air Force, named BAF Base Bangabandhu. The airport has an area of 802 hectares (1,981 acres). The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) operates and maintains the airport.
Bangladesh has five domestic airports, three international airports (which are also used for domestic flights) and four STOL (short take-off and landing) ports, with one new domestic airport under construction. [1] [2] It also has several airstrips, some built during World War II .
Emirates SkyCargo operates dedicated cargo flights to countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas from its hub at Al Maktoum International Airport . The airline also has scheduled cargo flights to 9 destinations, which do not receive service from Emirates passenger aircraft, namely: Djibouti, Eldoret, Guadalajara, Hanoi ...
The city is served by Shah Amanat International Airport for domestic and external flights. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, the first and only underwater road tunnel of South Asia, is located in Chittagong. The city is the hometown of prominent economists, a Nobel laureate, scientists, freedom fighters and entrepreneurs.
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SilkAir ceased services to Vientiane and Luang Prabang in March 2019 and transferred these routes to Scoot, which began operations to these destinations in April 2019. In FY2019/20, SilkAir transferred nine more routes to Scoot, namely Changsha, Chiang Mai, Coimbatore, Fuzhou, Kunming, Kota Kinabalu, Trivandrum, Visakhapatnam and Wuhan. ...
The national airline was forced to halt its flights to New York, Paris, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Brussels, Yangon and Mumbai in 2006 due to a shortage of funds and aircraft. ^ a b "New Dhaka-Frankfurt service". Biman Bangladesh Airlines. Archived from the original on 24 June 2014. Biman Bangladesh Airlines celebrated its inaugural flight to Frankfurt ...