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Nepal Airlines privatisation still stuck

The long-overdue privatisation of state-owned Nepal Airlines has become a political hot potato, but with Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress ...

"Pokhara will be a game changer"

https://youtu.be/9nLOSr_RZIkAt a time when most airlines around the world are folding, and Nepal’s own carriers struggle to stay airborne, Buddha Air has...

Nepal to lift quota on flights

Faced with criticism from migrant workers and Nepal’s embassies abroad for allowing only a limited daily quota of passengers to fly into...

Kathmandu airport gets facelift during lockdown

Nepal’s sole aerial gateway is spruced up and adopts precautions as it prepares to receive passengers

Nepal quarantines passengers on Singapore flight

All 85 passengers from a Silk Air flight from Singapore carrying a Dutch national of Nepali origin have to self-quarantine after landing...

Turkish and Visit Nepal 2020 sign MoU

The secretariat of Visit Nepal Year 2020 has signed a partnership agreement with Turkish Airlines to promote Nepal in the carrier’s international...

Thai marks 51 years in Nepal

Thai International introduced Nepal to the jet age with its first regular flights between Bangkok and Kathmandu on 4 December 1968, and...

Chaos at airport due to runway repair

An investigation committee has been formed after a scheduled Dubai-bound Airbus 330 of Nepal Airlines was canceled on the night of 2...

More than luck in Lukla

Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days...

What can Nepal learn from Ethiopia?

Nepal and Ethiopia have travelled similar trajectories as nations. Both are ancient landlocked former monarchies, both suffered ruinous wars, both struggle with governance...

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