Private carrier US-Bangla Airlines launched two international flights -- one on the Dhaka-Bangkok route and another on the Chittagong-Kolkata route -- on Thursday morning.
The flight on the Dhaka-Bangkok route took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital around 10:10am and is slated to land at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport at 1:40pm (local time), said Md Kamrul Islam, general manager (public relations) of the carrier.
The return flight will leave Bangkok at 2:40pm (local time) on the same day and arrive in Dhaka at 4:20pm. The airline will operate flights on the Dhaka-Bangkok route five days a week, except for Mondays and Wednesdays.
Meanwhile, the flight on the Chittagong-Kolkata route took off from Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city around 10:15am and landed at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 11:40pm (local time).
The return flight will leave Kolkata at 12:40pm (local time) on the same day and arrive in Chittagong at 2:10pm.
The flight on the Chittagong-Kolkata route will operate seven days a week.
Apart from operating flights on all domestic routes, US-Bangla now runs flights to global destinations like Singapore, Chennai, Male, Guangzhou, Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Sharjah, Dubai and Muscat.
