Captain Tasmin Doza becomes ‘first’ female director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines

She has been made the director of flight operations, an official says

Captain Tasmin Doza has become the ‘first’ female director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

She was made director of flight operations by an office order on Monday, the flag carrier’s spokesperson Boshra Islam told bdnews24.com.

She said Tasmin has been appointed the first woman director at Biman and her tenure began on Monday.

Born in 1968, captain Tasmin was commissioned as a cadet pilot in 1993. She was promoted to first officer of advanced turboprop technology aircraft in 1996.

She served as the base training and line check captain of the Fokker F-28 aircraft from 2004 to 2009, according to Biman.

From 2014 to 2019, she worked as the designated check pilot of the airline's Boeing 737 aircraft.

She also worked as flight data monitoring team leader and flight operations inspector of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, or CAAB.

In her most recent role, she had served as chief training officer of the flight management department.

After completing secondary and higher secondary education at Holy Cross school and college in Dhaka, Tasmin graduated in architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, or BUET.

She trained to fly the Piper PA-38 model aircraft from the Bangladesh Flying Academy in 1988.

According to Boshra, Tasmin received training on advanced turboprop technology aircraft from British Aerospace in the United Kingdom in 1995, on Airbus A-310 from Flight Safety Miami in the United States in 1998 and on Fokker F-28 aircraft from Garuda Indonesia Training Center in 2001.

In 2010, she received training on the Boeing-737 from Boeing Training and Flight Service in Singapore and on the Boeing-787 Dreamliner from the same institution in 2019.

She has flown nearly 13,000 hours as a pilot and co-pilot and nearly 3,000 hours as a trainer on the Fokker F-28 and Boeing-737.