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Biman Bangladesh targets final DC-10 operations and celebratory tours

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More news on Biman Bangladesh’s final DC-10 operations, as it prepares to withdraw the final scheduled service of this class of aircraft.

Before it wings off to retirement, it will have more flights to do. As well as covering flights to Kuwait, it will also be flying to Hong Kong on Tuesdays:

BG078 DEPART DAC 13:00 ARRIVE HKG 19:00
BG079 DEPART HKG 20:30 ARRIVE DAC 22:30D

Operates Tuesday only until 11th February 2014
Booked Equipment: McDonald Douglas DC-10 
From 18th February, Booked Equipment: Airbus A310

But all good things have to come to an end, and so Biman has confirmed that

  • The DC-10 is going to be donated to an Aviation Museum either in the EU or the USA (a change from the USA)
  • The last DC-10 flight will operate from Dhaka to Birmingham UK via Kuwait for a technical stop on 20th February, departing DAC at 08:30, arriving BHX 16:00. Tickets will be available through the Biman Website
  • Biman will operate “Scenic Tours” from Birmingham airport (BHX) on
    • Saturday 22nd February
    • Sunday 23rd February
    • Monday 24th February
    • Flights will operate 09:00, 12:00 and 15:00 hours on the days above operating Birmingham to Birmingham, operating for an hour.
    • Tickets will be bookable by Biman’s website
    • The last flight will also be sold by Ian Allen Travel too (24th February, 15:00)
  • Biman will be selling DC-10 and F28 memorabilia too closer to the date

Tickets are due to go on sale on the 14th January 2014. Prices have not been announced – although I’m hoping they’re “reasonable” (as your writer wouldn’t mind a ride on one!).

So, why has Birmingham Airport UK been selected for this? It seems its to foreshadow a new service from Birmingham Airport, connecting it to Dhaka and to New York-JFK. The service has no start date, as it is currently awaiting the runway extension of Birmingham Airport to be completed

Still, I’ll be looking forward to seeing this bird in my local skies…

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Comments

  1. Raphael says

    Prices for the very last flight on Monday are apparently 150 GBP for aisle seats and 200 GBP for a window seat. Those could be the prices for the other flights as well or they could be slightly lower as they are somewhat less ‘special’.

  2. Euan says

    Indeed details are available here – http://www.biman-airlines.com/about/news?id=46e17663-312b-46ba-93d6-3d7e508f36b8

    Due to an overwhelming response from aviation enthusiasts from around the world, we are going to operate scenic flights on the weekend of Feb 22, 23 and 24 from Birmingham airport. The first flights to go on sale will operate on the Monday, Feb 24th at 0900, 1200 and 1500 with a block time of an estimated one-hour. If as expected, they sell out quickly we open up the Sunday, Feb 23rd flights up for the same times of 0900, 1200 and 1500. As these sell out then we will open up the Saturday flights also at the same times – 0900, 1200 and 1500. As with the last commercial flight from Dhaka, we are keeping the prices for these scenic flights at reasonable levels with prices of ₤150 for a window seat and ₤100 for an aisle seat. Please note that for the last commercial flight ever on Monday Feb 24 @ 1500, prices have been set slightly higher at ₤200/₤150. In order to keep the flights as “special” as possible we are only selling 152 of the 319 seats on the aircraft – therefore all are window or aisle seats.

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