<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In 1941, during the Second World War, the British government built a landing strip at Kurmitola, several kilometres north of Tejgaon, as a spare landing strip for the Tejgaon Airport, which at the time was a military airport, to operate warplanes towards the war fields of Kohima (then in Assam) and Burmese war theatres.</p>
<p class="blog-para">After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Tejgaon Airport became the first civilian airport in what was then East Pakistan, present day Bangladesh. During the 1965 Indo-Pakistani war, the then abandoned airstrip was bombed by Indian Air Force, thinking it to be the Tejgaon Airport as the base.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 1966, a project was taken by the then Pakistan Government to construct a new airport, and the present site north of Kurmitola was selected. A tender was floated for the construction of the terminal building and the runway under the technical support of French experts. A rail station (present day Airport Railway Station) was also built near the site for the transportation of construction materials. However, the new airstrip was only halfway done when the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out in 1971. During war, the airstrip suffered severe damage.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Transport Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">See the available means of transport at Dhaka Airport:</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Bus:</strong> Buses run from the Airport to city centre.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Taxi:</strong> Travel time to reach Dhaka city center is about 40 minutes.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Train:</strong> Biman Bondor Railway Station is the train station that provides service to Dhaka city.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Transfers:</strong> If you want private transportation to and from the Airport, you can book a transfer.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Car Rental: </strong>Rent a car at Dhaka Airport.</p>
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