Bangladesh plans to buy aircraft from Airbus
Bangladesh plans to purchase new commercial aircraft from Airbus, a Netherlands-based multinational aerospace company, in order to bolster the fleet of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and thereby tap into the growing aviation industry.
'We definitely have plans to buy aircraft from Airbus to increase the size of Biman's fleet and we are working on it,' said M Mahbub Ali, the state minister for civil aviation. but he did not elaborate on how many planes would be bought or when.
state minister was speaking to media after the first-ever Bangladesh Aviation Summit, organised by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism in collaboration with its France and UK counterparts at a city hotel in Dhaka.
He went on to say that while Airbus previously submitted proposals for selling aircraft to Biman Bangladesh, the matter was brought up again during the summit.
According to aviation experts, Biman Bangladesh now boasts one of the youngest fleets in Asia with 21 modern aircraft comprised of four Boeing 777-300 ER, four Boeing 787-8, two Boeing 787-9, six Boeing 737-800, and five De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Q400.
Biman owns 18 of the 21 planes while the remaining five are operated on lease. To bolster its fleet after becoming a public limited company in 2007, Biman Bangladesh went on a shopping spree the following year, spending around Tk 19,020 crore on new planes.
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