Air Slovakia Tuesday announced to kick off its flight operation from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka to London via Bratislava from the next month with a very competitive ticket tariff.

The inaugural flight will fly on December 6 for the capital of the East European country. Air Slovakia will be the second airlines after British Airways to operate direct flights from Dhaka to London.

Air Slovakia's Chairman HS Sidhu told a press conference in Dhaka Tuesday that his airlines would initially operate a flight once a week, private news agency UNB reported.

"The number of flights may be increased to two or three a week depending on the demand from passengers," he said.

Air Slovakia now operates flights from India to different European destinations. It has flight operations in 35 destinations across the world, mostly in Europe.

(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2007)