Biman is the national carrier of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The corporate body is "Bangladesh Biman Corporation" doing business as Biman Bangladesh Airlines. Biman is a member of IATA. Incorporated in Bangladesh, it came into being on January 04, 1972 initially with a Second World War vintage Dakota, DC-3, gift from the Air force.

Biman's domestic services with the DC-3 were commenced within a month of its inception. Its real journey as an airline started with the acquisition of one Boeing 707 and four F-27 aircraft. Entry into the big league began with induction of three DC10-30s in 1983, which were acquired on the basis of route network and available traffic rights. The fleet size is now six wide-body DC10-30s, four mid-haul Airbus A-310-300s and five F-28s regional jets. Biman now flies to 26 international destinations across 3 continents. Moreover, Manchester is expected to be included in the foreseeable future.

Despite constraints, Biman embarked upon an ambitious program of route expansion. Subsequent to commencing flights and ethnic destinations, Biman also focused on tourist traffics.

Biman is now paying attention to making the airline more attractive to the traveling people by fixing the priority on two objectives. One is to provide more comfort to the passengers and the other is to maintain schedule regularity. The airline has already brought some qualitative changes in its ground and in-flight services. Of late Biman's executive class has been renamed as "MASLIN CLASS". Biman has built its own ancillary and maintenance facilities. Presently Biman does entire maintenance work on its F-28 aircraft. Biman is also doing its own C-check on DC-10-30s and Airbus A310-300 in its wide body hanger at Dhaka.

Checks, repair and maintenance on one DC-10-30, one wide bodied Boeing and two F-28 aircraft can be done at a time in Biman's newly commissioned wide body hangar.

Biman Flight Catering Center (BFCC) - a modern flight kitchen of the airlines, has the capacity of producing 8500 meals a day and is providing excellent cuisine not only to Biman but also to other international airlines such as Aeroflot, Gulf Air, Iran Air, Qatar Airlines, Druk Airways, Dragon Airlines, which are operating through Dhaka.

To meet the growing needs of Biman's manpower, Biman Bangladesh Airlines Training Center (BATC) has been training its ground, flight service and technical personnel. The center has also been turned into a seat of training and technical seminars for other agencies including some foreign airlines.

The airlines reservations and departure control other communications system as well have been fully computerized. Biman is continuously making efforts for office automation in order to improve the traffic productivity. It is also making efforts to introduce Computerised Revenue Accounting System in order to raise real revenue.

In addition to Biman's own Aircraft the experienced ground handling units also providing support for number of Foreign Airlines at Zia Int'l Airport. Namely, Aeroflot, Alitalia, British Airways, Dragon air, Druk Air, Emirates, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Iran Air, Korean Air, Kuwait Airways, Malaysia Airline System, Oman Air, PIA, Qatar Airways, Saudia, Singapore Airlines, Srilankan Airlines, Thai Airways etc.

Biman Poultry Complex, a potential subsidiary of Biman was formed in 1976 which was put into operation in November 1980 to create profit earning concern to augment cash flow of Biman. The Complex is situated at Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka, 40 Km North-West of Dhaka City. This project has a landed area of 75 acres, of which 5 acres poultry shed, 1 acre residential area and remaining 69 acres are agricultural land.

Keeping pace with trends and technology of the time along with a perspective plan for the future which embraces all aspects of an international airline and overall improvement in situation the carrier is now confidently looking forward to the future