Biman Bangladesh Airlines

Biman Bangladesh Airlines ; বিমান বাংলাদেশ
IATA code :	BG
ICAO code :	BBC
Call sign :	BANGLADESH
Founding:	1972
Seat:	Dhaka , Bangladesh
Turnstile :	Dhaka
Home airport :	Dhaka
Company form:	State company
IATA prefix code :	997
Management:	Md Zakiul Islam ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program :	Loyalty Club
Fleet size:	18th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.biman-airlines.com

Biman Bangladesh Airlines ( Bengali বিমান বাংলাদেশ Bimān Bāṃlādeś ) is the state-owned airline of Bangladesh based in Dhaka and based at Dhaka Airport .

history

Boeing 707 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in 1981 in London

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines

Biman Bangladesh was founded on January 4, 1972 and made its first flights in February of the same year on a Douglas DC-3 from World War II , which was given to the airline by the Bengali armed forces. A short time later, a Boeing 707 and a Fokker F-27 were acquired, with which international flights were possible.

The name Biman comes from the Bengali word biman , which translates as "airplane" and originally comes from Sanskrit - vimāna is a name for a flying machine mentioned in ancient Vedic literature .

In August 2006, the company announced that it would have to discontinue part of its international flights because it could not afford to pay for repairs to five of its then 13 aircraft. The Fokker F28 were at this time until her retirement in 2013, the oldest aircraft in the fleet, the two newly acquired in 1996 with Year 1977 Airbus A310-300 recent. Biman Bangladesh was also the last airline in the world to use the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in passenger service after Northwest Airlines withdrew its last copies in 2007. Among other things, it operated the penultimate passenger DC-10 ever made. Biman received its first copy on August 16, 1983.

Due to the increasing unreliability of the older aircraft in particular, Biman had already submitted proposals to the government on several occasions to acquire new aircraft, most recently in 2005 plans to purchase the Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 for a total of one billion US dollars - these plans however, were not implemented due to a lack of financial resources. On April 22, 2008, however, the airline finally announced the order for four Boeing 777-300ER and 787-8 aircraft each .

In January 2010, the company introduced a new color scheme with a Boeing 737-800 that was newly added to the fleet . However, just a few months later, both the new color scheme and the new logo were replaced by the old corporate design . In the same year, several Boeing 777s, which have since been given up again, were leased with an average age of 10.0 years.

On October 25, 2011, the company received its first new Boeing 777-300ER, which is also the 300th model of this model delivered. The second machine followed on November 22, 2011. With the 777-300ER, the company is introducing a new color scheme for the aircraft at the same time as the 2010 version was withdrawn. For the first time in the company's history, the planes are also equipped with personal in- flight entertainment .

From February 22nd to 24th, 2014 the airline celebrated the retirement of its last McDonnell Douglas DC-10 after the last scheduled flight on February 20th with several sightseeing flights from Birmingham . The machine was the last passenger DC-10 still in service worldwide, it was replaced by a new Boeing 777-300ER . The original plan was to transfer the machine to the USA as an exhibit, but this was canceled at short notice - the machine was instead scrapped in Dhaka.

As of October 27, 2014, the discontinuation of flights from Dhaka to Frankfurt am Main , which had only started a few months earlier, was announced.

Destinations

Boeing 737-800 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in the recently introduced livery

Airbus A310-300 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines

The airline operates several domestic connections within Bangladesh as well as numerous connections to Asia as well as to Europe and the Middle East . Due to the low occupancy rate, the flights to the only German-speaking destination, Frankfurt am Main , were suspended after only six months at the end of October 2014.

fleet

Current fleet

As of March 2020, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines fleet consists of 18 aircraft with an average age of 6.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Boeing 737-800	6th		with winglets fitted	162
Boeing 777-300ER	4th			419
Boeing 787-8	4th		+ 4 options; First delivery in August 2018	271
Boeing 787-9	2		First delivery in December 2019	298
De Havilland DHC-8-400	2		operated by Smart Aviation	74
total	18th	-

Former aircraft types

Incidents

In its history, Biman Bangladesh has recorded seven aircraft casualty incidents, two of which were fatally:

The Fokker F27 S2-ABJ crashed on August 5, 1984 in 1974

On February 10, 1972, a Douglas DC-3 ( aircraft registration number unknown) had an accident on a training flight near Dhaka. The 5 crew members on board were killed.

On November 18, 1979, a Fokker F-27 had to make an emergency landing in a field due to an engine failure during a test flight and was irreparably damaged in the process. There was only the crew on board who survived the incident.

On April 3, 1980, a Boeing 707-300C crashed while taking off from Singapore . Shortly after the machine took off, it hit the runway due to a failure of all four engines . A possible cause is an incorrectly executed abortion by the pilots. All 74 people on board survived, the machine was damaged beyond repair.

On August 5, 1984, another Fokker F-27 (registration number S2-ABJ ) from Chittagong crashed while approaching Dhaka . After two unsuccessful attempts to land, the plane hit the water on the third 550 meters from the runway, killing all 49 people on board.

On December 22, 1997, a Fokker F28-4000 on Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight 609 coming from Dhaka hit a field shortly before the runway in Sylhet , all 89 people on board survived.

The Fokker F28 S2-ACH crashed on October 8, 2004 in 1995

On October 8, 2004, another Fokker F28-4000 (registration number S2-ACH ) with 4 crew members and 79 passengers on board on Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight 601 shot over the wet runway into a canal as it landed at Sylhet Airport and was irreparably damaged; however, there were no fatalities.

On July 1, 2005, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ER with 216 people on board on Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight 048 landing in Chittagong from Dubai came off the runway during bad weather and got stuck in the mud. Everyone on board survived and the heavily damaged aircraft was taken out of service.

On March 12, 2007, the nose landing gear collapsed during the take-off of an Airbus A310-300 operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines (S2-ADE) at Dubai Airport . There were no casualties among the 250 people on board, but the machine was irreparably damaged and later scrapped.

On May 8, 2019, a De Havilland DHC-8 crashed while landing in Rangoon in Myanmar . All 33 occupants survived the incident with minor injuries, in which the aircraft broke into three parts (see also Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight 60 ) .

Web links

Commons : Biman Bangladesh Airlines - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Data about the airline Biman Bangladesh Airlines in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Web presence of Biman Bangladesh (English)

Individual evidence

↑ airwise.com - Biman Bangladesh Cuts Flights Because Of Case Wose accessed on August 28, 2006 (English)

^ The Independent - Bangladesh Biman plans fleet renewal ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

↑ aero.de - Boeing receives order for eight machines from Biman Bangladesh Airlines ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 22, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aero.de

↑ airliners.net - Photo of a Boeing 737-800 in the new design of the Biman Bangladesh accessed on January 8, 2010

↑ ch-aviation - Biman Bangladesh (English) accessed on December 12, 2015

↑ airfleets.net - Fleet age Biman Bangladesh (English) accessed on November 7, 2015

↑ aero.de - Boeing delivers 300th aircraft in the 777-300ER program from accessed on October 25, 2011

↑ ^a ^b biman-airlines.com - 2nd Boeing 777 joins the fleet ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on November 22, 2011

↑ biman-airlines.com - Biman News (English) accessed on January 19, 2014

↑ ch-aviation.com - Biman's last DC-10 not destined for Seattle museum (English) accessed on February 21, 2014

↑ touristik-aktuell.de - Biman Bangladesh Airlines: From Frankfurt flights accessed on October 16, 2014

↑ biman-airlines.com - Destination Map ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 7, 2015 @1@ 2