Lukla Airport (LUA)

Lukla, Kathmandu, & Co: A brief guide to all the airports of Nepal

Kiran Bhatta / February 7, 2025

The tales of the airports in Nepal are quite fascinating. It houses what, often wrongly, is dubbed to be the […]

Karan Bhatta / January 29, 2025

As per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary “Widebody aircraft is a large jet aircraft characterized by a wide cabin”. To be more

In the early days, cattle would often graze on Lukla’s runway while children played nearby. Whenever an aircraft was about

Kiran Bhatta / January 24, 2025

Tribhuvan International Airport – the aerial entrance to Nepal – was inaugurated by King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah in 1955

Karan Bhatta / January 22, 2025

Carriers such as Gorkha Airlines and Agni Air once operated in Nepalese skies but had to shut down due to

While the Lukla Airport is known as the Hillary Airport (with the name of the other mountaineer first to Everest-

Pradip Bashyal, a BBC journalist based in Kathmandu and writer of the brilliant book “Sherpa” shares his thoughts on the