Airbus eyes on long-term presence in Bangladesh

City Desk :
European aviation giant Airbus visibly expects a greater stake with longer presence in Bangladesh as the aircraft builder, virtually a consortium of an intra-European enterprises, is nearly set to add 10 wide body planes to national airlines Bangladesh Biman fleet.

“We see tremendous aviation potential in Bangladesh,” said Morad Bourou-ffala, Chief Representative of Airbus in Bangladesh as a group of Bangladeshi journalists recently visited Airbus Headquarters in the French city of Toulouse, reports BSS.

The Airbus representative said the aviation market was yet to be utilized fully in Bangladesh therefore their company decided to invest in the country “as we believe the (Bangladesh’s) Vision 2041 and we want to part of it”.

He said Airbus intended to assist Bangladesh in building its air transport ecosystem with new generation wide body aircraft and skilled air crews in line with Dhaka’s dream to become an aviation hub.

Airbus’s marketing vice president Antonio da Costa and Wide-body Market Development Manager Juan Camilo Rodríguez joined Bourou-ffala in briefing the newsmen from Bangladesh in Toulouse, regarded as Europe’s aerospace capital.