Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG, Dhaka) has postponed the resumption of its flights to New York JFK from June to August after management failed to settle on a suitable ACMI provider.
The Dhaka Tribune reports that eight international operators responded to a tender issued last month namely: China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou), Omni Air International (OY, Tulsa International), White (WI, Lisbon), Air Atlanta Icelandic (CC, Reykjavik Keflavik), Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK), Eaglexpress Air Charter (Kuala Lumpur International), EgyptAir (MS, Cairo International) and a Finnish ACMI firm.
“Although we found lots of response, unfortunately the offers are not satisfactory enough and that’s why the board of Biman has decided to offload a fresh tender for ACMI soon,” Biman’s outgoing Managing Director Kevin Steele told the paper.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has maintained Biman's Category 2 safety status forcing the airline to outsource its planned US operations to other Category 1 airlines.
Flights to New York via Birmingham, GB were to have commenced on June 4.
