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Biman to fly with hajj pilgrims from Ctg on May 14
Special Correspondent
Nation
2024-05-03, 10:31pm
Biman to fly with hajj pilgrims from Ctg on May 14
Chattogram, May 03 - This year's maiden hajj flights from Chattogram will start from May 14.
Biman's Boeing 717, carrying 419 pilgrims, will depart from Shah Amanat International Airport for Madinah at 3:50am on May 14, Biman's Chattogram district manager Md Shahdat Hossain confirmed.
This year, 22 direct flights will be operated from Chattogram to Saudi Arabia for the transportation of pilgrims, he added.
Of them, 20 flights will go directly to Jeddah and two flights will go to Madinah.
Meanwhile, the first flight with pilgrims from Dhaka will leave for Saudi Arabia on May 9. Then the next flights will leave as per the schedule.-UNB