The New Nation - Internet Edition

BUSINESS REPORT

The Best Air, a private aviation company, launched its flight to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates from September 8 last.

A flight of the Best Air took off from Zia International Airport at 5:00pm on September 8 last for Dubai, the busiest commercial city of the Middle East.

Syed Fahim Munaim, Press Secretary to Chief Adviser, formally inaugurated the flight at a ceremony held at the Zia International Airport in Dhaka.

Civil Aviation and Tourism secretary Syed Mohammad Zubair was present on the occasion. The Ambassadof of Thailand, Ambassador of Sri Lanka, Ambassador of Bhutan, Ambassador of the Philippines, Ambassador of Iran, Ambassador of Maldives, Ambassador of Korea, Ambassador of Palestine, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh Chairman Air Commodore Saquib Iqbal Khan Majlish and Best Air chairman M Haider Uzzaman were present.

Besides, Director of Administration and HR of Best Air Group Captain (Retd) M Alamgir, Director of Regulatory Affairs Ali Reza Khan, Director of Engineering Jalal Uddin Ahmed, Director of Marketing and Sales Farhad Hossain, Director of Customer Services M Moniruzzaman, Finance Adviser Sadique Ahsan and Best Air officials and employees were present.

Best Air has been operating Dhaka-Dubai-Dhaka flights four days-Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday-in a week. Best Air's flight operations to Dubai will undoubtedly add a new dimension to the field of manpower export from Bangladesh.

It may be mentioned that Best Air has introduced wide-bodied, modern and convenient MacDonald Douglas (MD)-83 aircraft for operating flights between Dhaka and Dubai. Having 162 seats, all the seats of the aircraft belong to the same class.

Flying from Dhaka to Dubai with return ticket will cost US$550, while the one-way Dhaka-Dubai flight will cost US$285.