Biman grounds four planes

imagesFour aircraft out of 14 aircrafts from Biman Bangladesh’s fleet are grounded because of techincal glitches.

Sources at Biman confirmed that the newly purchased Boeing 777 300 ER, the leased Boeing 777 200 ER, a Airbus 310 and a Dash Q8 400 have all been grounded.

An official of Biman told the Dhaka Tribune that the situation has become unmanageable as four aircraft have been grounded. Scheduled flights to a total of 15 destinations has been cancelled while 3 to 4 flights are delayed daily by around 10/12 hours

“If the management can not repair all four aircraft quickly, passengers will suffer throughout the month,” the official added.

Domestic flight schedule also collapsed as only one aircraft is operating now among the two available aircrafts.

Passengers to and from Riyadh, Dammam, Kuwait, Muscat and Dubai are most affected by this.

Sources said, last week a Dhaka-Kuwait flight was delayed by 12 hours while a Riyadh bound flight was delayed for 7 hours.

A Muscat bound flight left Dhaka 9 hours later while a Dammam bound flight was delayed for 8 hours. This is a regular phenomenon for the airline as its aircrafts suffer from regular technical glitches.

Biman has 10 aircrafts in its fleet to operate on international routes. The airline also leases two Boeing 777 200 aircrafts from Egypt which are also not operational at this time.

At any given time, one out of two engines on Biman planes are out of order and two Airbus 310 aircraft from its fleet are going to end it’s service life in September this year.

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