US-Bangla Airlines will resume flights on Dhaka-Chennai-Dhaka route from Sunday maintaining all health protocols under air bubble agreement with India. US-Bangla flights will leave Dhaka for Chennai at 10:30 am on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday and will land Chennai at 12:40 pm. Read US-Bangla Airlines to operate regular flights to Muscat from Sept 1 On the same day, the flights will leave Chennai at 1:30 pm and land at Dhaka at 4:30 pm, said a press release. The one-way fare on the route(including surcharge and taxes) has been fixed at Tk 12,399 while the fare will be Tk 19,893 with return facility. Read: US-Bangla Airlines enters 8th year

The air bubble flights between Bangladesh and India may be resumed on September 3 before the restart of scheduled international passenger flights, according to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka. Flight operations under the air bubble will begin with seven frequencies per week – for carriers of either country. Any passenger from India can travel to Bangladesh irrespective of Covid vaccination status. About the restriction of passengers on narrow-body aircraft, the Indian carriers have intimated that there are multiple configurations of narrow-body aircraft in their fleet. So, instead of a blanket restriction of 140 passengers per aircraft, the Indian civil aviation ministry proposed that the capacity may be restricted to a specific percentage of the installed seat capacity of the aircraft, for example, 90% or 95%. Also, the proposal did not restrict visa types; only tourist visas are still closed. In addition, the permission has not been limited to vaccinated persons and no quarantine requirement specified. The only limiting fact is the number of flights, seven per side every week.

Bangladesh reiterated the importance it attaches to signing of the Teesta water sharing agreement with India and sought increased cooperation between two Border Forces with a view to bringing down border killings to zero, during the Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two countries on Friday.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami on Wednesday assured that the planned December virtual summit between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi is not being seen as a substitute for an in person visit by Prime Minister Modi.

Bangladesh and India want to resume flight operations through a special "air bubble" arrangement "as soon as possible" after finalising the "technicalities".