A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines brought back 159 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Qatar on Thursday.
“A US-Bangla special flight, carrying stranded Bangladeshis, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7:30 am,” said a press release.
US-Bangla Airlines has operated the special flight under the auspices of Bangladesh Air Force Welfare Trust to facilitate the repatriation of Bangladeshi expatriates stranded in Qatar.
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The special flight was operated on the Dubai-Dhaka route with US-Bangla Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, a large number of expatriate Bangladeshis were stranded in various countries for more than three months.