Biman Bangladesh Airlines has convened a meeting of board of directors today though the civil aviation ministry dissolved the board led by Chairman Jamal Uddin Ahmed three months ago.
As the court ordered the authorities to hold annual general meeting by March and as the country’s law requires a company to hold a board meeting before AGM, there was no alternative to calling the meeting, said Biman Acting CEO M Asaduzzaman.
The board meeting today will set a date for AGM, which, official sources said, could be later this month. All pending decisions are also expected to be settled at the meeting.
Asaduzzaman said the ministry dissolved the board “due to its failure in holding AGM in time,” and a new board would be formed after the upcoming AGM.
Officials said the board crisis had just added to the woes of long-struggling national flag carrier. They said the process of making a number of major decisions halted because of the situation.
The airlines had to stop the preparation to start scheduled operation in five routes which included Dhaka-Delhi, Dhaka-Hong Kong, Dhaka-Colombo, Dhaka-Male and Dhaka-Guangzhou.
At a meeting on 27 December last year, the board decided to resume flights to Delhi in February and to Hong Kong in April, and to commence operation in the three new routes in April.
The meeting said the working papers on launching operation in Guangzhou, Colombo and Male routes were ready while preparation of business case to resume Delhi and Hong Kong routes was near to completion.
Although Biman was supposed to start sales at least two months before commencement of operation, lack of decision hampered the work.
