First Hajj flight leaves Dhaka for Jeddah with 419 people on Sunday

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First Hajj flight leaves Dhaka for Jeddah with 419 people on Sunday

Shawdesh desk:

The first hajj flight, carrying 419 pilgrims, is scheduled to leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Saudi Arabia at around 3:20am on Sunday.

‘A Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate the first hajj flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Jeddah on Sunday at 3:20am,’ Biman’s spokesperson Tahera Khondoker told BSS.

Earlier, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday inaugurated the Hajj Programme-2023 at the Hajji Office in the capital’s Ashkona area.

This year, a total of 122,221 pilgrims from Bangladesh are going to perform the holy hajj. The number of hajj pilgrims from Bangladesh was 57,585 last year due to Covid-19 restriction.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 127,198 pilgrims from Bangladesh performed hajj in 2019.

The Hajj is expected to be held on June 27 depending on the sighting of the moon.