Air Bangladesh was an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It was founded in 2000 and dissolved in 2005.

Code data

• IATA
  International Air Transport Association
  The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...
  
   Code: B9
• ICAO Code: BGD
• Callsign: AIR BANGLA

Fleet

Air Bangladesh (no relation to Biman Bangladesh Airlines

Biman Bangladesh Airlines

Biman Bangladesh Airlines , partly transcribed from English into Bengali and the other way around) is the flag carrier airline of Bangladesh. Its main hub is at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, and also operates flights from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, earning revenue...

) operated only one older jet aircraft, a Boeing 747-269B(SF)

Boeing 747

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 (registration

Aircraft registration

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 S2-ADT). The aircraft was acquired by Air Bangladesh in August 2004 and was painted in a basic and Kalitta Air

Kalitta Air

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Ban in the European Union

Air Bangladesh was banned from entering EU airspace. The reasons for this decision were safety deficiencies, as well as poor transparency of the airline's operations. the Commission assessed that Air Bangladesh should be submitted to a strict operational restriction.