The first Hajj flight of this year left Dhaka for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with 410 pilgrims at 4:20 am on Thursday morning. Hajj pilgrims left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Saudi Airlines flight.
Then 415 pilgrims left Dhaka for Jeddah in a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 7:20.
Religion Minister Faridul Haque Khan inaugurated the Hajj flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and other officials were present at this time. Religion Minister Faridul Haque Khan later boarded the aircraft and exchanged greetings with the pilgrims.
Before this, immigration of pilgrims started at 11 pm on Wednesday. It ends at three o’clock in the night. Director of Bangladesh Hajj Office Muhammad Kamruzzaman told Buss that two flights have left for Jeddah since dawn. A total of seven flights will go to Saudi Arabia today.
Another Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight will leave the airport at 11:20 am. Flynns flight is scheduled to leave at one o’clock.
According to sources from the Ministry of Religion, 83 thousand 311 people have registered for Hajj this year. However, more than 40,000 pilgrims have not received visas. The holy Hajj can be celebrated on June 16, subject to sighting of the moon.
