Saudi Airlines Selling Tickets for 4th Day

For the fourth consecutive day, Saudi Airlines will sell tickets to help Bangladeshi expatriates return to their workplaces in the kingdom.

Since the morning, people who have already got their tokens have been collecting tickets.

Tickets will be given on Sunday to those keeping tokens from 1,401-1,900 while on Monday those from 1,901-2,300 will get theirs, reports UNB.

Saudi Airlines started issuing tickets for Bangladeshi expatriates on Thursday morning, a day after migrant workers demonstrated in Dhaka for return tickets to the kingdom.

They came home with return tickets but could not go back due to a shortage of Biman flights amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In front of the Expatriates' Ministry of Welfare in Eskaton, migrant workers demonstrated demanding the extension of visas and Iqamas and the arrangement of return tickets to Saudi Arabia.

On Wednesday evening, as both Biman and Saudi airlines were granted permission to operate flights, the Foreign Minister said Bangladeshi expatriates would be able to return to their workplaces.

The Saudi government has agreed to extend visas to those Bangladeshis who want to return to the kingdom, but their visas have expired, AK Abdul Momen said.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the most popular destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Bangladeshis sent back US$ 18.355 billion in remittances last year. Of that number, Saudi Arabia sent back $3.647 billion (19.87 percent).