The first Hajj flight to Saudi Arabia, with 407 passengers hailing from Shah Amanat International Airport, has left for Saudi Arabia. The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight started on Sunday afternoon at 3:46 pm.
Now there are about 9,000 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia going to Saudi Arabia on 22 flights from Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The airport manager confirmed the matter.
Airport Manager Sarwar-i-Jahan said four flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Chittagong will be directly to Medina, 5 to Jeddah. There are a total of 22 flights, including flights from other airlines.
In context, now a total of 1, 26, 798 people from Bangladesh will go to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. Of these, 6,798 people will go to government management and 1 lakh 20 thousand will go to private management.
Now, 528 Hajj Agencies operating under the management of the private Hajj are operating the Hajj. Bangladesh Biman and Saudi Airlines have already been accommodated for carrying passengers. Of these, Biman Bangladesh will operate 64th pilot of 967 passengers and 188 flights on 61831 passengers on Saudi Airlines.
