Flight disruption pushes migrant workers to uncertainty about job
Several hundred passengers, mostly migrant workers, could not fly to their destinations due to flight disruption at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday and Saturday...
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Air passengers suffer due to anti-quota blockade
Air passengers, especially those departing for overseas jobs, have suffered because of blockade of roads and railways by anti-quota protesters across the country on Wednesday as many had to reach the airport in Dhaka hours before their scheduled journeys...
4.42kg of gold seized at Dhaka airport
The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation seized 4.42 kilogrammes of gold from a flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh capital Dhaka early Wednesday....
China Southern Airlines to launch Dhaka-Beijing direct flight
China Southern Airlines will inaugurate direct flight from Beijing Daxing International Airport to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka connecting the capitals of the two nations for the first time on July 15....
One dead as Delhi airport terminal roof collapses months after Modi inauguration
The roof of a terminal building at New Delhi鈥檚 international airport partially collapsed in heavy rains early Friday, killing one person, rescuers said, months after a refurbishment project was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Climate protest targets private jets at UK airport
Climate activists on Thursday gained access to a UK airport and sprayed private jets with orange paint a day after Stonehenge was attacked.
Indian relatives grieve as bodies of 45 Kuwait fire victims return
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport on Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home...
Lionised in London
WHOEVER designed Istanbul airport must have been inspired by the phrase: 鈥榃alk that extra mile鈥�. Passengers have to walk over endless travelators until they reach the immigration counters. Turkey admits only the fittest...
Hundreds of migrants from Bangladesh stuck at Dhaka, KL airports
Thousands of Bangladeshis were stuck at Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur airports on Friday amid a last-minute rush before Malaysia shut its doors to migrant workers on...
HSIA鈥檚 3rd terminal to be fully operational by this year: minister
Civil aviation and tourism minister M Faruk Khan on Thursday said that the newly built third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport would be opened by the end of this year, or beginning of the next year...
Saudi Airlines cabin crew held with 2kg gold at HSIA
Law enforcement agencies arrested a Bangladeshi cabin crew member of Saudi Airlines on Tuesday night at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, along with two kilograms of gold...
Ctg seaport, airport suspend all activities due to cyclone 鈥楻emal鈥�
Authorities in Chattogram suspended operations at the Shah Amanat International Airport, the seaport, and the Bangabandhu Tunnel on Sunday due to cyclone Remal...
Two Chinese citizens held with 46 gold bars at HSIA
The officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate on Thursday arrested two Chinese citizens along with 46 gold bars from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka...
Incoordination holding off expressway link worrying
INCOORDINATION between two projects erecting elevated expressways 鈥� the Dhaka-Ashulia elevated expressway and the Dhaka elevated expressway 鈥� has left uncertain the connection between the expressays meant in the Dhaka airport area...
Microbus catches fire on Dhaka Elevated Expressway
A microbus caught fire on Dhaka Elevated Expressway in front of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday...
Connection between 2 expressways in limbo
The lack of coordination among the authorities in implementing development projects becomes evident once again in a latest instance in which the building works to connect the two under-construction expressways, to be done in the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in the capital, remains in limbo...
Gold heist probe report submission deferred to June 30
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday extended till June 30 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over some 55 kilograms of gold theft from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport鈥檚 customs house鈥檚 warehouse.....
E-gates at airports, landports still hardly used
Forty-four electronic gates installed at the country鈥檚 three international airports and two land ports have failed to improve passenger services at the...
Air Arabia flight makes emergency landing following hydraulic glitch at Ctg airport
An Air Arabia flight with 168 passengers and seven crew members made an emergency landing at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport Friday morning following a hydraulic glitch at brakes, airport officials said....
Turkey therapy dogs join Istanbul Airport staff
Six-year-old Kuki and one-and-a-half-year old Alita recently joined the staff of Istanbul Airport, one of the busiest in the world, with a mission to provide solace for stressed travellers...
Fugitive death-row convict in rape case arrested at Dhaka airport
Members of Rapid Action Battalion in a drive arrested a fugitive convict who was sentenced to death in a case filed over gang-raped of a college student in 2012....
CAAB mulls Rajshahi airport runway expansion聽
The Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh is discussing the possibility of expanding the runway at domestic Shah Makhdum Airport, Rajshahi, to...
Sri Lanka leases white elephant airport built with Chinese loans
Sri Lanka said Friday it had leased a white elephant international airport built with Chinese loans to a foreign joint venture, as the island nation鈥檚 bankrupt government seeks to offload loss-making assets...
1kg gold seized at Ctg airport
The members of the National Security Intelligence and Customs Intelligence seized one kg of gold from three Dubai returnees at Shah Amanat International Airport on Monday...
Bus driver arrested over death of CAAB engineer
Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday arrested the driver of Raida Paribahan bus that rammed a motorcycle near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, killing a...
CAAB engineer killed as bus ploughs through HSIA fence
An engineer of the Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh was killed on Friday after a speeding Raida Paribahan bus ran over him near the under-construction project site of the third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka....
Tehran airports resume flights: state media
Tehran's two major airports resumed flights on Friday, state media reported, following a brief suspension after explosions were heard in central Iran....
Dubai airport, roads still plagued by floods
Dubai鈥檚 airport, one of the world鈥檚 busiest, witnessed major disruption for the third day in a row on Thursday after the heaviest rains on record drenched the desert...
9 flights from Dubai to Dhaka cancelled for rough weather in UAE
At least nine flights destined to Bangladesh were cancelled and two other flights bound for Dubai were delayed on Wednesday as unprecedented rainfall and flooding sent the United Arab Emirates into complete chaos, causing sufferings...
Two cargo flights land in Dhaka coming directly from Israel
The landing of two cargo flights at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh capital Dhaka coming directly from Tel Aviv in Israel has created controversies in social media....