US-Bangla Airlines plans to operate flights on the Dhaka-Dubai-Dhaka route from February 1, starting off with 14 per week, the airlines said in a press release.

The departure from Dhaka will be at 6:30pm every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Landings at Dubai International Airport are expected at 10:00pm.

Subsequently on these scheduled days, the flights will leave Dubai at 11:30pm and reach Dhaka at 6:00am the next day.

Every Tuesday, the flights from Dhaka will be at 5:30pm, reaching Dubai at 09:00pm, on Wednesday at 3:55pm and 7:25pm and on Saturday at 5:00pm and 8:30pm respectively.

Minimum one-way fares for economy class will be at Tk 54,999 while return tickets Tk 73,000. For business class, it will be Tk 79,200 and Tk 153,526 respectively.

The airline has also decided to soon operate flights to Abu Dhabi.

Apart from tourists, there are more than one million expatriate Bangladeshis in different cities of the United Arab Emirates, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

US-Bangla Airlines is currently operating flights to Muscat, Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Kolkata, Chennai and Guangzhou. It also plans to operate flights to Male and Colombo shortly.

It has 13 aircraft in its fleet, four of which are Boeing 737-800 and 6 brand new ATR 72-600. There are plans to add four new aircraft soon.