2 hajj flights leave Dhaka for KSA

Staff Reporter :
The two hajj flights left Dhaka for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Sunday. Among them, the first flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines left Dhaka with 415 hajj pilgrims in the early hours of the day while Saudi Arabian Flynas Airlines’s XY 5412 flight departed Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 9:25 pm. The national flag carrier’s aircraft ‘BG-3001’ departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 3:20am.

The first hajj flight launching ceremony of Flynas Airlines was held at the ground floor, area adjacent to C-Gate at 6:30 pm yesterday at HSIA.

State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali, State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh Isa Bin Yusuf Al Duhailan, Member of Parliament from Dhaka-18 Constituency Habib Hasan, Biman Bangladesh Chairman Mustafa Kamal Uddin, Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry Secretary Md Mokammel Hossain, Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Air Vice Marshal Md Mofidur Rahman, President of Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) M. Shahadat Hossain Taslim, Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Shafiul Azim and other high officials were present at the time.

Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday inaugurated the Hajj Activities-2023 at the Hajj Office in the capital’s Ashkona area.

This year, a total of 122,221 pilgrims from Bangladesh are going to perform hajj. Of them, 61,111 will fly by Biman and the rest either Saudia or Flynas.

The Hajj is expected to be held on June 27 depending on the sighting of the moon.