By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Sept. 2: After halting for about six months, regular international flights to and from Kathmandu have resumed.
The regular international flights in the sole international Airport of the country, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), have been suspended since March 23.
According to the TIA sources, a wide-body plane of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) left for Narita of Japan as the resumption of regular International flight at around 1 am on Wednesday.
Archana Khadka, spokesperson of NAC, informed that it’s flight to Narita boarded around 50 passengers in today’s flight and it would return to Kathmandu Wednesday afternoon taking 231 passengers from Narita.
Flight operation department of the TIA informed that a plane of Himalaya Airlines is going to Chongqing of China on Wednesday as another regular flight.
Devendra KC, general manager of TIA, said that altogether three to four international flights, including chartered ones would be allowed to operate from the TIA on a day as per the decision of the government.
The government has decided to allow bringing maximum 800 passengers a day for which three to four international flights will be operated, he said.
The TIA informed that three chartered flights, two from Doha and one from Kuwait, were operated on Tuesday to bring 416 Nepali citizens stranded there.
Despite the resumption of regular flights, the scheduled repartition fly will also continue as per the plan of the government to bring the stranded citizens home, KC said.