Day 1.

Outside Dubai Airport's Terminal 2 at 1am on a Thursday morning for my 3:15am Flydubai flight to Dhaka. I had last visited India in 2010 and Sri Lanka in 2015, and was keen to travel back to South Asia again.



And in the Marhaba lounge after going through immigration and security. I had bought my Flydubai ticket to Dhaka 11 months prior during one of their regular sales for a very reasonable $184 return.


My flights for the trip were:
Day 1: Flying Flydubai (FZ) from Dubai to Dhaka (DXB-DAC).
Day 3: Flying Novoair (VQ) from Jessore to Dhaka (JSR-DAC).
Day 4: Flying Flydubai (FZ) from Dubai to Dhaka (DAC-DXB).



Boarding ontime just before 3am. Almost all of the passengers were Bangladeshi workers who were heading home. With Flydubai charging to check luggage and being a full flight, the overheads inevitably filled up quick. When one guy decided he would just keep his bag on his lap, one of the flight attendants dropped the niceties and shouted "This is not a public bus, you cannot keep your bag on your lap and will have to put it in the hold!"


Looking down on Pakistan just before dawn as we fly east about an hour after takeoff.


A dose of Starbucks and Netflix halfway through the ~4.5 hour flight.