Your Home in the Sky and the House in Disarray It is long past due for Biman to start fulfilling its potential and becoming a cornerstone of the Bangladesh development story M.K.Aaref Sep 3, 2025 - 07:01 Sep 4, 2025 - 06:27 TORONTO — Biman, our national airlines, finally made history by announcing that it had made a record unaudited profit of Tk 937 crore, roughly USD 78 million, and this euphoric news was followed by the disclosure that it owed Padma Oil around 2,000 crore in unpaid fuel bills. My personal experience with Biman began in 1972, flying between Dhaka and Chittagong in their 40-seater F-27 aircrafts, and later moving on to Boeings, DC-10s, and Dash 8 aircrafts. On a summer evening in July 2023, the arrivals hall at Toronto Pearson International Airport buzzed with an electric anticipation rarely seen amid the usual throngs of weary travelers. As Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG305 touched down from Dhaka, via a stop in Istanbul, cheers erupted from a crowd of hund...
