378 Bangladeshis Return Home from Dubai on Special Flight Amid Middle East Conflict
A total of 378 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, due to suspended flights amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, have returned home.
On Thursday, March 5, at 7:07 am, a special flight operated by US-Bangla Airlines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Earlier, in a statement, Md. Kamrul Islam, General Manager (Public Relations) of US-Bangla Airlines, said the special initiative was taken to stand beside expatriate Bangladeshis and set a humanitarian example in light of the ongoing situation in the Middle East.
He said a special flight had been operated on the Dhaka–Chattogram–Abu Dhabi–Dhaka route to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in the United Arab Emirates.
According to sources, the first flight to repatriate stranded Bangladeshis from Dubai departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7:20 pm on Wednesday, March 4. The flight later departed from Dubai for Dhaka at night local time and landed in Dhaka on the morning of Thursday, March 5, carrying 378 passengers.
Another flight will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Dubai at 5:15 pm on Thursday. The same flight will then leave Dubai at 10:00 pm local time for Dhaka with stranded Bangladeshis on board.
It has been learned that the two special flights are being operated using an Airbus A330-300 aircraft.
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