History and Background
United Airways Limited, a public limited company was founded by Capt. Tasbirul Ahmed Choudhury a Sylheti British-Bangladeshi expatriate, and few other aviation professional, businessmen and entrepreneurs in 2005. It also obtained the Air Transport Operating License (ATOL) from Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh on 28 June 2005.
The airline started operating scheduled domestic flights on 10 July 2007, its maiden flights being Dhaka-Sylhet and Dhaka-Chittagong, with its Dash 8-100, purchased from Island Air. In a few months, domestic routes such as, Dhaka-Cox's Bazar, Dhaka-Jessore, and Dhaka-Barisal started and international service to Kolkata from Dhaka and Chittagong began with its Dash 8-100s. Another Dash 8-100 was delivered in 2008 (Ex Island Air).
In 2009 the airline received a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (ex Flightline), and launched flights to London, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu.
In 2010, it started the Dhaka-Jeddah route and Sylhet-London direct flights with newly obtained Airbus A310-300 (ex Czech Airlines), while an ATR 72-212 (ex Precision Air) and another McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (ex Medallion Air) took delivery.
In 2011, it added a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (ex Sky Express), another Airbus A310-300 (ex Blue Line) and an ATR 72-212 (ex Merpati Airlines) and they started the routes Dhaka-Bangkok and the route Dhaka-Rajshahi-Saidpur.
In 2012, it began flights to Muscat from Dhaka and Chittagong, it restarted the Chittagong-Kolkata flight, and also it resumed flights to Bangkok.
In 2013, it added its fourth McDonnell Douglas MD-83, and will lease two more ATR 72-200 to start flights to Ishwardi. Furthermore, it plans to purchase three 18-seater British Aerospace Jetstream 31 Airliner aircraft for domestic services to smaller airports such as Barisal Airport and STOL Airports such as Comilla STOL Airport, and a British Aerospace Jetstream 31 Corporate for charter flights in Bangladesh, however their date of arrival is unknown as it was originally scheduled to arrive in September 2012.
The airline also plans to launch flights to Doha, Singapore, Karachi, Yangon, Dammam, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Jakarta in the near future.
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