NOVOAIR, the premium and largest private airline of Bangladesh, has added three new ATR 72-500 aircraft in its fleet. The three 68 seater ATR 72-500 aircraft were officially inaugurated by Mr. Rashed Khan Menon MP, Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism in the conference room of HSIA, Tuesday. Moreover, operation of Saidpur, Barisal and Rajshahi flights were also inaugurated at the event. This inclusion increased NOVOAIR’s aircraft count to 6.
AVM M Sanaul Huq, outgoing Chairman and AVM Ehsanul Gani Chowdhury, newly appointed Chairman of CAAB, high officials of HSIA, EBL and NOVOAIR were present at the occasion.
Daily 2 flights are being operated to Saidpur, said Mr. Mofizur Rahman, MD of NOVOAIR. In addition to that, from 1 April weekly three flights to Rajshahi and from 2 April weekly four flights to Barisal will be operated. With this NOVOAIR has now covered all 7 domestic destinations.
He said, esteemed passengers of Chittagong, Jessore, Cox’s Bazar, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Barisal can now travel across the country by connecting flights touching Dhaka with only 6000 taka. This will benefit not only tourism, but also businesses be expanded – he hoped.
At present, NOVOAIR operates domestic flights from Dhaka to Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Jessore, Sylhet and Saidpur and international 3 weekly flights to Yangon. Very soon, regional destinations such as Guwahati, Kolkata and Kathmandu will be connected into NOVOAIR network
DHAKA: 22 March 2016
NOVOAIR Press Release