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Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bengali: বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইনস) is the national airline of Bangladesh, based at Zia International Airport in Dhaka. It provides domestic as well as international service to Asia and Europe, but derives most of its revenue from flights to Osmani International Airport, Sylhet. It has Air Services Agreements with 42 countries, although it maintains flights to only 18. Until July 2007, the airlines was owned by the Government of Bangladesh; on 23 July 2007, it was transformed into Bangladesh's largest Public Limited Company by the then caretaker government of the country. Created in February 1972, Biman operated an internal monopoly in Bangladesh until 1996. Dogged by corruption and accidents, the airline suffers from an ageing fleet, with some of its long-haul aircraft banned for safety reasons from the US and EU member states. Annual Hajj flights, labour migrants as well as Biman's subsidiaries, form an important part of the ailing carrier's business. Biman has a 2 star ranking out of 5 by Skytrax, a United Kingdom-based consultancy.

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Credit: United States Air Force
Air Force One, a Boeing VC-25, flying over Mount Rushmore. Boeing is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Its international headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois, US since 2001. Boeing is the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, orders and deliveries, and the second-largest aerospace and defense contractor in the world. Boeing is the largest exporter in the United States. Its stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Selected top 10 ranking

Most employees (2008 Fortune Global 500)
1		Wal-Mart Stores
2		State Grid
3		China National Petroleum
4		U.S. Postal Service
5		Sinopec
6		Hon Hai Precision Industry
7		Carrefour
8		Deutsche Post
9		Agricultural Bank of China
10		Gazprom
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Good and featured articles

Featured articles BAE Systems  · BC Rail  · Biman Bangladesh Airlines  · Canadian Pacific Railway  · El Al  · Elderly Instruments  · Holden  · Microsoft  · NeXT  · Odwalla  · Oliver Typewriter Company  · Pan American World Airways (category...) A-Class articles Blue Network (category...)

Featured lists Lists of company acquisitions: Adobe Systems  · AOL  · Cisco Systems  · Condé Nast  · Dell  · eBay  · Electronic Arts  · Google  · Symantec  · Yahoo! (category...)

Good articles Arkia Israel Airlines  · Boosey & Hawkes  · Burger King  · Burger King legal issues  · Crazy Eddie  · eBay  · Facebook  · Flytoget  · Grameen Bank  · Gulf Oil  · Harley Davidson  · Hochtief  · International Speedway Corporation  · Israir Airlines  · Key (company)  · Marine Harvest  · Mr. Lady Records · Mzoli's  · National Westminster Bank  · Pearson's Candy Company  · Pixar  · Poundland  · Sinclair Research  · Slackers CDs and Games  · Tim Hortons  · Union Stock Yards  · Wal-Mart (category...)

  

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Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations Wikify: Barry Callebaut, AED Oil Limited Cleanup: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, PbNation-This article is currently in the format of a forum, however it is more notable as a company(if it is notable at all) than a forum. Expand: Cameco, Japan Steel Works, Mrs. Fields, BW Gas, BAE Systems Information Technology, IndyMac Bank (in the news as of July 11), AIG NPOV: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, written almost entirely by a news and public affairs employee at ACES, so needs some neutral eyes to give it a going over to check for both neutrality, and layout/content inclusion, etc. Other: Tag the pages of any company articles with the portal banner Tag the talk pages of any company articles with the project banner Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them if they would like to join our efforts Contribute to discussions on project guidelines and lists Identify companies for which articles could be created and either create them or list at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/Businesses and Organizations Identify articles for improvement and list here Provide Assessment and peer review of Stave Puzzles

  

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