Three international airlines to operate flights to Bhairahawa
Kathmandu, October 14: International airlines have prepared to operate commercial flights at the Gautam Buddha International Airport in Bhairahawa, which has been unable to conduct commercial international flights for a long time after the construction was completed.
According to Pratap Babu Tiwari, General Manager of Gautam Buddha International Airport, Kuwait’s Jazeera, Dubai’s national flag carrier FlyDubai and Thailand-headquartered Thai Air Asia have decided to operate commercial flights to Gautam Buddha International Airport. All three airlines have obtained permission to fly from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. The airport has prepared a flight schedule.
FlyDubai will start regular flights to Gautam Buddha International Airport from November 9. It will be the company’s first flight to the airport. The flights will be operated seven days a week on the Dubai-Bhairahawa and Kathmandu-Dubai routes.
According to GM Tiwari, FlyDubai’s flight from Dubai to Bhairahawa will be at 1:45 pm and to fly to Dubai via Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 3:30 pm. CAAN has permitted flights. Meanwhile, Tiwari said that the technical team of FlyDubai will visit Gautam Buddha Airport to get information about the service facilities.
Accordingly, Jazeera Air is resuming flights from October 28. The airline, which had previously suspended flights, is set to resume flights to Bhairahawa. Jazeera operates three flights a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Jazeera’s flight will arrive in Bhairahawa at 7: 30 a.m. and fly back to Kuwait at 8: 30 a.m. Two years ago, Jazeera started flights to Bhairahawa with the inauguration of Gautam Buddha International Airport. It stopped the Bhairahawa flight citing technical reasons.
Thai Air Asia is also planning to fly to Gautam Buddha Airport soon. The technical team of the airline visited Gautam Buddha Airport a few days ago. GM Tiwari informed that the technical team was briefed by the airport in detail about the facilities provided by the airport, the bases for flight operations such as market analysis, and other benefits related to other operations. However, it is not known when the airline will start flying.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Thai Air Asia Shantisuk Klaodchaiya expressed confidence that the flight would play an important role in strengthening not only the air connectivity network between Nepal and Thailand but also the cultural and people-to-people ties between the two countries.
People’s News Monitoring Service.
