A total of 107 flights from Dhaka to Riyadh and Dammam airports were cancelled from October 10 to Friday due to the closure of the 2 airports, leaving 16,620 passengers stranded.
Kawser Mahmud, assistant director of the public relations department of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), confirmed the information on Friday afternoon.
He said 44 of the cancelled flights were direct flights, including 17 operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, 10 by US-Bangla Airlines, 10 by Saudia and 7 by Riyadh Air.
Another 63 transit flights were cancelled. These included 22 operated by IndiGo, 7 by SalamAir, 1 by EgyptAir, 14 by Emirates, 9 by Qatar Airways, 6 by flydubai and 4 by Air India.
Mahmud said flight cancellations would continue until the situation returned to normal and the airports resumed normal operations.
