United Airways
| United Airways ইউনাইটেড এয়ারওয়েজ |
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| IATA code : | 4H |
| ICAO code : | UBD |
| Call sign : | UNITED BANGLADESH |
| Founding: | 2007 |
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Dhaka , Bangladesh
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| Home airport : | Dhaka airport |
| Management: | Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 5 (+ 3 orders) |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Website: | www.uabdl.com |
United Airways BD Ltd. ( Bengali ইউনাইটেড এয়ারওয়েজ , UBD for United Airways Bangladesh ) is a Bangladeshi airline based in Dhaka and based at Dhaka Airport .
history
United Airways was founded in 2005 and started operations between Dhaka and Sylhet in 2007 with a De Havilland DHC-8-100 purchased by Island Air .
In 2007, the US United Airlines asked United Airways to change the company name to avoid confusion, which United Airways did not comply with. When United Airways added London as a destination to their route network in 2009 (discontinued in 2010), a British court ruled in 2011 in favor of United Airlines, which also serves London, that United Airways may no longer use the name in Great Britain. Since then, the company has operated as UBD and removed the word "United Airways" in the Latin alphabet from its aircraft.
At the beginning of July 2008 a second McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was bought by the British airline Flightline , which went bankrupt in December 2008 , among other things to serve the guest worker traffic between Bangladesh and Dubai from 2009 onwards. From 2009 to 2010 the company offered a flight to London's Gatwick Airport from Sylhet via Dhaka via Dubai and Istanbul.
In 2012 the UBD subsidiary TAC Aviation Ltd. opened , which was named after its founder, the pilot Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury, a training center for flight personnel in Sylhet and founded the regional airline TAC Airlines , which took over charter flights for UBD from 2013 .
On September 24, 2014, UBD ceased operations for three days for economic reasons after the company had been in deficit for several years.
Destinations
In addition to national destinations, mainly destinations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are served.
fleet
As of April 2019, the United Airways fleet consists of five aircraft (all inactive) with an average age of 26.3 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A310-300 | 1 | inactive | 250 | |
| De Havilland DHC-8-400 | 3 | - open - | ||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | 4th | inactive | 155
161 170 |
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| total | 5 | 3 |
De Havilland DHC- 8-100 and ATR 72-200 airplanes were also used in the past .
See also
Web links
- United Airways website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ flightglobal.com - Court orders Bangladesh's United Airways to repaint fleet, June 28, 2011 (English)
- ↑ thefinancialexpress-bd.com - United Airways opens aviation academy in Sylhet, February 5, 2012
- ↑ ch-aviation - Bangladesh's United Airways suspends operations , accessed September 24, 2014
- ↑ uabdl.com - International Destinations (English), accessed on November 7, 2015
- ↑ United Airways Fleet Details and History. Retrieved June 7, 2019 .
- ↑ ch-aviation - Bangladesh's United Airways to acquire Q400s , accessed on July 10, 2015
- ↑ uabdl.com - Fleet Information (English), accessed on November 7, 2015