Kathmandu-Delhi 6 flights a week from now
KATHMANDU: JULY 19 – Kathmandu-Delhi will now have six flights a week. The Civil Aviation Authority has increased the number of Kathmandu-Delhi flights from two to six a week from Monday.
Gyanendra Bhull, deputy manager of NEA’s flight permission branch, on Sunday issued permission to Nepal Airlines Corporation and Indian flag carrier Air India to operate six flights three times a week with effect from Monday. To break the chain of the second wave of corona infection in April, the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had limited 14 flights a week from April 27 to two in the Kathmandu-Delhi sector.
Since then, even though Nepal has banned commercial flights to other countries, Nepal-India flights have been running twice a week. NEA spokesperson Raj Kumar Kshatriya stated that the cabinet meeting on Saturday decided to increase the number of flights under the air bubble concept after the one-way airfare of the route reached Rs 50,000.
