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'GMG Airlines' is an airline based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the GMG Group of Companies, it is Bangladesh's leading private airline operating domestic and regional services. Its main base is Zia International Airport, Dhaka.^[1]

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History

Destinations

Fleet (to be expanded)

Livery

External links

References

History

The airline was established in 1997 and started operations on 6 April 1998. It is wholly owned by the industrial conglomerate GMG Group. It began with domestic operations and launched international services on 8 September 2004, with a service from Chittagong to Kolkata. GMG began regular flights to Bangkok, Delhi, and Kathmandu on October 20, 2006. It started services to Kuala Lumpur on 24 January 2007 and increased the service to daily flights in July 2007. GMG's current international destinations are Kolkata, Delhi, Kathmandu, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur. The airline is scheduled to start operations to Singapore, Hong Kong, Karachi, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, and Muscat within 2007 and is currently in the process of expanding its fleet. GMG is the first private airline in Bangladesh to fly overseas.^[2]

Destinations

GMG Airlines operates services to the following destinations:^[3]
;Bangladesh

★ Barisal (Barisal Airport))

★ Chittagong (Shah Amanat International Airport)

★ Cox's Bazar (Cox's Bazar Airport)

★ Dhaka (Zia International Airport)

★ Jessore (Jessore Airport)

★ Sylhet (Osmani International Airport)
;South Asia

★ India

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★ Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)

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★ New Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)

★ Nepal

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★ Kathmandu (Tribhuvan International Airport)

★ Pakistan

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★ Karachi (Jinnah International Airport) [begins November 2007]
;Southeast Asia

★ Malaysia

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★ Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)

★ Thailand

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★ Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport)

★ Singapore

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★ Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport) [begins January 2008]

★ China

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★ Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Airport) [begins January 2008]
;Middle East

★ United Arab Emirates

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★ Dubai (Dubai International Airport) [begins November 2007]

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★ Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi International Airport) [begins November 2007]

★ Qatar

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★ Doha (Doha International Airport) [begins November 2007]

★ Kuwait

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★ Kuwait (Kuwait International Airport) [begins November 2007]

★ Oman

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★ Muscat (Seeb International Airport) [begins November 2007]

Fleet (to be expanded)

The GMG Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of March 2007): :

'GMG Fleet'

Type	Total	Routes	Notes
Boeing 777-300	(1 on order)	International
[Boeing 767-200 ER]]	(2 on order)	International
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	3	International
Bombardier Dash 8 Q100	2	Domestic
Bombardier Dash 8 Q300	2	Domestic

★ First Class is Offered Only On Selected Routes.

Livery

The main body of the planes are white. The belly, and a small bit of the side are blue with yellow stripes. The tail is dark blue with the emblem of the Golden Deer.

External links

★ GMG Airlines

References

1. Flight International 3 April 2007
2. GMG denied a level playing field, gets permission to fly from nowhere to nowhere, M.I. Ali, Weekly Holiday, 2004-01-04; ''Retrieved: 2007-09-04''
3. GMG Airlines Summer 2007 Schedule and Fare Chart