The US-Bangla airlines today added a second wide-body Airbus 330-300 aircraft with 436 seat capacity aspiring to spread its wings to Europe as the country's first ever private carrier.
“As part of future plans with the new addition, Airbus will operate London, Rome routes along with Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam in Saudi Arabia,” said a press release issued by the carrier.
Earlier, on 31 March, US-Bangla Airlines conducted a test flight with its first and newly leased Airbus A330-300 plane (S2-ALA , Built year 2013), which has a seating capacity for 436 passengers. With the second Airbus A330-300 addition today, the US-Bangla fleet reaches to 24 aircraft.
Currently, the US-Bangla airlines will utilize the newly-added aircraft on its Dubai, Sharjah, Muscat, Doha and Kuala Lumpur routes, it added.
The Airbus 330-300 landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 5:30 am this morning from Guangzhou, China as another wide body addition to the US-Bangla airlines.
At present, US-Bangla Airlines is the largest airline in Bangladesh considering the number of aircraft with two Airbus 330-300, nine Boeing 737-800, 10 ATR 72-600 and three Dash 8-Q400.
The carrier currently operates flights on international routes to Kolkata, Chennai, Male, Muscat, Doha, Dubai, Sharjah, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Guangzhou.
Apart from the international routes it also operates regular flights on all seven domestic routes.
The second Airbus wide body aircraft (S2-ALB) , Which is a A330-343E viariant , was built in the year 2014 and was a part of the Cebu Pacific Airlines from May 2014, before being stored in March 2022.
