Biman Bangladesh Airlines will charge $200 dollars per ticket for hajj pilgrims in case of changing travel date and the cost per ticket will rise to $300 dollars, if any pilgrim changes the travel date less than 24 hours of his/her scheduled flight.
The airline will not refund ticket money, if any pilgrim fails to travel on the scheduled flight, Biman said in a statement on Tuesday (Jun 25).
The national flag carrier has completed all preparation to start this year’s hajj flight from Jul 4 with the first flight BG-3001 will leave Dhaka airport carrying 419 pilgrims at 7:15am.
State Minister for Civil Aviation M Mahbub Ali and State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah will be present at the airport to see off the pilgrims, reports BSS.
As many as 127,198 pilgrims from Bangladesh are set to perform hajj this year.
Biman will carry 63,599 passengers, which is about half of the number of total hajj pilgrims. The remaining pilgrims will be flown by Saudi Airlines, the national carrier of Saudi Arabia.
This year for the first time, the immigration formalities of some Bangladeshi pilgrims will be completed in Dhaka.
Biman will operate 189 pre-hajj flights, 157 dedicated and 32 scheduled flights between Jul 4 and Aug 5 by its own four Boeing 777-300ERs.
The airline will operate 11 flights on Dhaka-Madina route for the first time this year. Apart from Dhaka, 19 hajj flights will be operated from Chattogram while three from Sylhet.
Biman will operate 176 post-hajj flights, 147 dedicated and 29 scheduled flights from Aug 17 to Sept 15.
So far Biman carried 1,060,444 pilgrims since 1973, according the statement.