Loss Curtailing Step
Biman won't fly to Jessore, Rajshahi from today
Unb, Dhaka
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to discontinue two of its domestic flights on Dhaka-Jessore and Dhaka-Rajshahi routes from today to reduce huge losses. Earlier, the national flag carrier also closed down 10 of its international flights on eight different routes, a source at Biman's flight information department said. The discontinued flights are one on Dhaka-New York route, one on Dhaka-Tokyo, two on Dhaka-Yangon, one on Dhaka-Paris, one on Dhaka-Brussels, one on Dhaka-Frankfurt, two on Dhaka-Bahrain and two on Dhaka-Bombay route. Biman has also decided to close down its eight overseas stations on the closed routes. At present, Biman operates a total of 90 flights on 19 international routes. According to an insider, Biman is now encumbered with a mountainous amount of debt to state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC)- a whopping Tk 1,500 crore in outstanding fuel charges. The BPC supplied aviation fuel of around Tk 45 crore on credit to Biman every month, but recently it decided to stop providing fuel to Biman for non-payment of the arrears for long. Due to the decision of BPC, Biman has been compelled to reduce its number of flights, raising an apprehension among the staff members of Biman of massive retrenchment.
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