{"id":803,"date":"2022-08-10T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/?p=803"},"modified":"2022-08-10T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:50:10","slug":"biman-completes-pre-hajj-flights-29992-pilgrims-ferried-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Biman completes pre-hajj flights, 29,992 pilgrims ferried to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Biman Bangladesh Airlines has completed its pre-hajj flights this year \u2013 carrying 29,992 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Giving the highest priority on the religious sentiments of people, Biman has safely ferried 29,992 hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year as per the quota,&#8221; the airlines said in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last pre-hajj flight, BG-3141, left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:55pm for Jeddah yesterday (July 3, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biman has operated a total of 87 pre-hajj flights, including 67 dedicated and 20 scheduled, to carry hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without taking any aircraft on lease, the national flag carrier this year used its four Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft to operate hajj and regular flights to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the sincerity and dedicated efforts of Biman officials and staff, all the flights were operated on time and no hajj flight was cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first hajj flight of this year started on June 5. Biman&#8217;s post-hajj flight will start from July 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the bilateral agreement between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, a total of 60,000 Bangladeshis will be able to perform hajj this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total pilgrims, Biman will carry half of them and two Saudi Arabian airlines \u2013 Saudia and Flynas \u2013 will carry the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, around 1.27 lakh Bangladeshis were allowed to perform hajj. However, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the largest annual Muslim congregation was held on a limited scale in the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biman Bangladesh Airlines has completed its pre-hajj flights this year \u2013 carrying 29,992 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. &#8220;Giving the highest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ttw.com.bd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}