Regent airways, a private airliner, plans to spread its wings, introducing a few more new routes within next three months.
After launching its commercial operation in South and South East Asia, the airliner is now going to commence three more international routes for four new destinations in four countries like Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
“It will be a big jump for us to introduce three more new routes within a very short time as we are going beyond the boundary of South and South East Asia for the first time,” Ashish Rai Choudhury, chief operating officer (COO) of Regent airways told the Dhaka Tribune.
Massive expansion work on different routes is still going on under the $100m new investment programme, which will create 1000 more new jobs in Bangladesh, he added.
According to the strategic plan, Regent is going to introduce its maiden flights en route for Dhaka- Muscat-Dhaka. It will also run its flights on Dhaka-Colombo-Male and Dhaka-Jeddah-Dhaka routes.
Regent officials noted that it got permission in all the routes from the respective civil aviation authorities of those countries.
Regent management is now working on setting up offices, appointment of General Sales Agent (GSA), recruiting manpower in different positions for those new routes.
Meanwhile, Regent also got a slot en route for Dhaka-Kathmandu-Dhaka. But it is yet to begin its flight there because of the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal.
Regent Airways, a sister concern of Habib Group in Chittagong, currently operates its flight in four international destinations along with its regular domestic flights.
Regent began its domestic commercial operation on 10 November 2010. It launched its first international flight en route Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka in 2013.
It also launched commercial flights en route Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka, Dhaka-Bangkok-Dhaka and Dhaka-Singapore-Dhaka.
At the same time, the airliner plans to increase frequencies in Dhaka-Singapore and Dhaka-Bangkok routes. Regent airway has five aircrafts in its fleet as yet.
