Hajj flight leaves for Saudi Arabia for 2nd day
Published : 05 Jul 2019, 13:24
The Hajj flight left Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Jeddah for the second consecutive day on Friday.
The first Hajj flight of this year has departed for Saudi Arabia with 417 pilgrims aboard on Thursday.
This year, a total of 127,198 pilgrims will go to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. Of them, Biman will ferry 63,599 pilgrims, 7,198 of them will go under government arrangement and 56,401 will go under non-government arrangement, according to the Biman Bangladesh.
The national flag carrier will use its Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft to transport pilgrims. Regular Jeddah-bound flight will also carry them from Bangladesh. Biman will operate 304 dedicated flights and 61 regular flights to ferry pilgrims to the kingdom. Return flights will start on Aug 17.
Source: dailysun