Bahrain Air launches Bangladesh routes

Bahrain Air has inaugurated its new route from the kingdom to Bangladesh with a non-stop flight to the capital, Dhaka. "Initially, we will operate three flights to Dhaka and four to the port city of Chittagong," the carrier's managing director Ibrahim Al Hamer, who piloted the inaugural flight, said. "We may increase the frequency, depending on the loads." The carrier plans to carry around a million passengers this year and hopes to break even by year-end 2011.