Lukla Airport (LUA) Archives - Page 3 of 4

Can you land a helicopter anywhere?

Karan Bhatta / February 25, 2025

When a chopper (registered 9N-ALX) landed on a football ground whilst a match was being contested in Syangja district in […]

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

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as “all civil aviation aircraft operations except for

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

Karan Bhatta / January 28, 2025

In the days of the yore, the cattle would graze in Lukla’s runway, and children would play too. A siren

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

Karan Bhatta / April 16, 2024

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

Karan Bhatta / April 7, 2024

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