Bangladesh approves Fly Jinnah for Karachi-Dhaka route
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Bangladesh has approved Pakistan’s private airline, Fly Jinnah, to operate direct flights on the Karachi-Dhaka route, resuming air connectivity between the two cities after nearly a decade.
“They (Fly Jinnah) applied to us, and we have approved it,” Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) chairman Air Vice Marshal Md Monjur Kabir Bhuiyan told The Daily Star this evening.
Before launching operations, Fly Jinnah has to appoint a local General Sales Agent (GSA) in Bangladesh.
“Now they (Fly Jinnah) will appoint a GSA (General Sales Agent). Once they request slots and frequencies, we will provide them. Our part is currently complete,” Bhuiyan said.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan’s state-owned flag carrier, last operated direct flights on this route until February 2015.
Fly Jinnah, a budget airline, is a joint venture between Pakistan’s Lakson Group and UAE-based Air Arabia, a low-cost carrier headquartered in Sharjah.
Reference Link:- https://www.thedailystar.net/life-living/travel/news/bangladesh-approves-fly-jinnah-karachi-dhaka-route-3815401
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
