Tag: #Kathmandu Airport
Articles tagged with #Kathmandu Airport

Pokhara’s tourism woes
Despite huge potential, the lake city takes a hit due to cuts in flights at Kathmandu’s airport

Kathmandu airport to cut flight hours
Travellers should expect more than normal congestion November-March due to airport expansion project

Air passengers at mercy of winter delays
Airlines are not to blame when poor visibility due to pollution closes Nepal’s airports

Angel meets an angel
Photo: JANAK KAPALIJust before all flights were grounded during the Covid-19 lockdown last year, dog trainer Janak Kapali was at Kathmandu…

Flying home in a pandemic
Tackling tests, paperwork and conflicting emotions while flying across the world to Nepal

Nepal’s domestic flights resume
All photos BIKRAM RAISix months after being grounded due to the Covid-19 lockdown, Nepal’s domestic airlines took to the air again on Monday,…

Flights to Nepal limited by airport capacity
A Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul on 3 September was the first scheduled departure in nearly six months from Kathmandu.Ten international…

The long journey back to Nepal
Social distancing upon embarking at Kathmandu Airport.After the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, it was not immediately apparent that the…

Kathmandu airport gets facelift during lockdown
Nepal’s sole aerial gateway is spruced up and adopts precautions as it prepares to receive passengers

Coronavirus Nepal Lockdown Month 2
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace

Awesome party
Photo: PMOWhen the CPN (UML) unified with the CPN (Maoist) two years ago, most hoped that it would lead to the UML-isation of the Maoists,…

Long road back to Shangrila
Look east : Sunrise near Phaplu in Solu Khumbu after recent snowfall. Photo : MANISH PAUDELEver since Time magazine printed a story in 1992…

THE NEPAL BRAND
On new year’s day, President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated Visit Nepal Year 2020, aimed at attracting 2 million tourists this year, at a…

New, improved TIA
Now that G Adventures has listed Nepal as Number 1 of the Top 12 Destinations Worldwide for 2020, we can all sit back, relax and give every…

Between existence and extinction in Nepal
THE 6TH EXTINCTION: This orchid with medicinal properties, Dactylorhiza hatagirea, (Panchaule) is an endangered species.Nepal is situated at the…

Jet closure benefits Nepal Airlines
Photo: WIKIMEDIAThe suspension of all flights by Jet Airways this week has been both a curse and a boon for Nepal. The Indian private airline…

Chaos at airport due to runway repair
PIC: BIKRAM RAIAn investigation committee has been formed after a scheduled Dubai-bound Airbus 330 of Nepal Airlines was canceled on the night…

Try Visiting Nepal
Photo: KUNDA DIXITCharles Shobhraj once claimed that he could pass an elephant through Nepal’s customs, and that is still true at Kathmandu…

Viral videos of 2018
As the sun sets on 2018, Nepali Times takes you back to the most popular videos of the past year on its YouTube Channel, the ones that readers…

A year wasted
After ten years of blood and 12 years of trying to come to terms with why it was shed, Nepalis had great hopes for 2018.Last year this time,…

What can Nepal learn from Ethiopia?
DREAM COME TRUE: Capt Pradeep Shrestha in the cockpit of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (left) says there is no reason Nepal airlines cannot replicate…

Adventurers in a vanishing land
The world, and Nepal, have changed since the days of Wilfred Thesiger and Freya Stark

20 by 02
Confusion over the two ends of the runway also reflects a separate tragedy of the mismanagement of Kathmandu…

HOPES DASHED
Once more Nepal has hit the international headlines for all the wrong reasons. The tragic crash of a Bangladeshi airliner on Monday that killed…