Civil Aviation

Nepal Airlines is one of the main fixed-wing operators in Nepal and the flag carrier of the nation. It was Nepal Airlines that first operated to /from the most dangerous airport in the world– Lukla Airport. The person who was seminal to the construction of Lukla Airport– Sir Edmund Hillary – saw the loss of…

Nepal Airlines used to operate to cities like London, Frankfurt, and Paris, which house not only the busiest international airports in the world but also the busiest global airports. It can well be said that Nepal Airlines was the first operator to the most dangerous airport in the world– Lukla Airport. But in 2019, the…

Widebody aircraft have revolutionized the field of air travel. Widebodies fall in the list of the biggest commercial aircraft ever made such as the Airbus A380, among others. The widebody Airbus A350-900 is also deployed to operate on the longest one-stop flight that spans more than 10,000 nautical miles, while the Airbus A350-900 ULR is…

On December 24, 1999, Indian Airlines Flight IC-814 departed Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM) in Kathmandu, Nepal, bound for Delhi — a journey scheduled to take around two hours. Instead, it would circle the skies and tarmacs of five countries for the better part of a week. The hijacking is remembered as the worst to have…

Nepal is a nation that has many abandoned airports. When an aircraft first landed in Nepal, it was in a field where cows grazed– hence the name Gauchar Airport. This was pretty reminiscent of Lukla Airport– the most dangerous airport in the world – where when just before the first aircraft landed, grazing cows and…

Nepal already has three international airports: Tribhuvan International Airport, Pokhara International Airport, and Gautam Buddha International Airport. With problems existing in Pokhara International Airport, and virtually no international flights running, do we really need Nijgadh International Airport as well? Nepal has a list of many failed airports already. The Dharan Airport’s scam is something that…

It has not even been ten years that one of the main airports in Nepal – Pokhara Airport – transitioned from its domestic status into an international one. Its picturesque location, coupled with the most beautiful offerings in the city that is Pokhara, could have made it one of the busiest airports in Nepal, if…

Of all the aerodromes in Nepal, perhaps the most sumptuous looking of them all is Pokhara International Airport. The towering mountain that lies to the opposite of its magnificent entry, the obvious lack of danger associated with other airports such as Lukla Airport, the ability to serve the go-to touristic city in Nepal- Pokhara, are…

Dharan Airport could have been one of those names that could have been added in the list of all the (non-)functional airports of Nepal. And that too, quite a while ago. In 2003, some of the biggest businessmen arrived in Dandha Ghopa (a place in Dharan) making an astonishing offer to the villagers that buoyed…