Dhaka flight back with 6-day-week schedule

Flights between Calcutta and Bangladesh resumed on Wednesday morning.

A US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka landed at the Calcutta airport with 37 passengers around 10.15am and flew back to Dhaka with 30 passengers, airport officials said.

US-Bangla will operate flights between Calcutta and Dhaka six days a week, the officials said.

Several other airlines, including Biman Bangladesh and SpiceJet, have applied for slots to operate flights between Calcutta and Dhaka, they said.

Commercial flights from India to Dhaka had been stalled, like flights to all other international destinations, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Only a few evacuation flights had operated some months ago.