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Biman flight schedule faces disruptions

Hundreds of passengers suffer

Staff Correspondent
Air passengers are getting stuck at different airports and enduring immense sufferings due to disruption in flight schedules of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for the last two weeks.
The national flag carrier is either cancelling flights on some routes or delaying most other flights for several hours, after an aircraft was grounded at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
The situation turned worse for 350 passengers after the Biman's flight on Sylhet-Dhaka-London route remained grounded at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet for over 19 hours since Friday afternoon as the auxiliary power unit of the aircraft went out of order.
As the Biman did not take any step to take the stranded passengers to hotels, children and elderly passengers faced immense sufferings at the airport.
Frustrated at the flight delay, passengers staged a demonstration inside the airport on Saturday mom ing.
The Biman officials said the flight left Sylhet around 11:00am on Saturday after the necessary repairs.
The officials said each week the Biman had been cancelling at least one flight to Delhi and Bangkok.
Besides, a backlog of passengers and cargos have been created at different stations as the Biman is operating flights by comparatively smaller Boeing 737 aircraft in place of A 310 that remained grounded since January 25.
At a press conference on January 27, Biman Managing Director Kevin John
Steele said, “One of our aircraft faced some technical problems and the comprehensive repair will take another three-four days."
However, the aircraft has not yet been repaired and it is not even clear how long it would take to be repaired as necessary spare parts have not been bought.
Apart from this, most of the flights have been delayed three to four hours due to aircraft shortage.
The Biman now have two Boeing 777, two B 737 and one A 310 and a DC 10 operational.
The recently purchased new Boeing 777-300 is expected to be in operation after being inaugurated by the prime minister tomorrow.
However, the world's last serving passenger carrier, DC 10, will go into retirement from February 20.