107 flights canceled on Dhaka-Saudi route, more than 16 thousand passengers suffer

BanglaPress Desk: Due to restrictions at airports in Saudi Arabia, a total of 107 flights—both direct and transit—from Bangladesh have been cancelled. This has caused significant inconvenience to 16,620 passengers so far.
Muhammad Kawsar Mahmud, Assistant Director of the Public Relations Department at the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), shared this information in a statement issued to the media on Friday (October 16).
The statement notes that the cancelled flights include 44 direct flights and 63 transit flights.
Among the airlines operating direct flights, 17 flights by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, 10 by US-Bangla Airlines, 10 by Saudia, and 7 by Riyadh Air have been cancelled.
Meanwhile, among the transit flights, 22 flights by IndiGo, 14 by Emirates, 9 by Qatar Airways, 7 by SalamAir, 6 by flydubai, 4 by Air India, and one by EgyptAir have been cancelled.
According to the available information, these flights were disrupted due to operational restrictions at Saudi Arabian airports, forcing changes to passengers' travel itineraries and causing them considerable hardship.
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