US-Bangla Airlines spreads is wings in the Chinese sky from last thursday. The airline has been operating flights on all domestic routes for last four years and also continued flying to seven destinations worldwide recently. Yet another feather has been added to the success of US-Bangla airlines as it managed to start flight operations to and from China as the first airline in Bangladesh. The airline started its journey to Guangzhou, China last night.

In a press release, US-Bangla Airlines informed that almost all Bangladeshi airlines tried for the permission to fly to China since independence in 1971. Despite all those efforts, for the first time, Civil Aviation Authority of China issued permission only to US-Bangla airlines. Primarily the airline will start flight operations 3 times a week in both ways.

US-Bangla airlines plans operating flights with its 164 seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft which has 156 seats for the economy class and 8 seats for the business class passengers. At present, the airline has 4 Boeing 737-800 and three Dash 8-400 aircraft in its fleet. The airline also informed that it will include three Boeing and three Dash 8-400 aircraft by this year.

Fare for one way journey to and from Guangzhou will start from 30,408 taka and two way fare will start from 39,442 taka.

The following table includes the information about flight schedule of Dhaka-Guangzhou-Dhaka route. Please note that this schedule and fare may change any time without prior announcement. For confirmation, please do keep contact with your travel agent.

RouteFlight No.DepartureArrivalOperating Days
Dhaka to GuangzhouBS 32510:10 PM03:50 AM+1Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Guangzhou to DhakaBS 32605:00 AM07:30 PMWednesday, Friday and Sunday

US-Bangla airlines started its journey from 17 July, 2014 and continued its operation to seven international route including all domestic routes since then. For US-Bangla Airlines flight schedules and fares, do not forget to read this article.