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On 17 January 1995, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operating as Royal Nepal Airlines Flight 133 from Kathmandu to Rumjatar, had problems getting airborne at Tribhuvan International Airport. The aircraft struck the airfield perimeter fence and plunged into fields.
The oldest of the country's three international airports, and the hub of air services in the country, is Tribhuvan International Airport, which serves the nation's capital and the country's largest metropolitan city of Kathmandu. Gautam Buddha International Airport, situated at the birth-place of Gautam Buddha (i.e. Lumbini), is the second ...
The airport was opened as a domestic airport called Bhairahawa Airport providing flights to Kathmandu in 1958 and has since been operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. [6] In 1985, the airport was one of the target of the Nepal bombings .
The airport is intended to relieve expected capacity restraints at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu. [3] The 72.5 km long Kathmandu–Terai Madhesh Expressway is being constructed by Nepali Army to help connect the proposed airport and Kathmandu. [4] A construction area sign placed at the periphery of Nijgadh International ...
The busiest airports in Nepal are based on the data from Civil Aviation Authority of ... Tribhuvan International Airport: 7,327,042 Pokhara Airport: ... Code of Conduct;
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of ports of entry in Nepal. [1] [2] [3 ... Tribhuvan International Airport; Land border crossings. India border ...
The airport was established on 4 July 1958, although there is evidence that the airport existed in some form as early as 1946 and would therefore be the oldest airport in Nepal — this fact is, however, disputed. [3] The airport is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. [2]
The airport is Nepal's third international airport and officially began operations on 1 January 2023, [3] with STOL-operations to Jomsom still being operated from the old airport. [5] The airport is expected to handle up to one million passengers per year, [ 6 ] but as of 2024 [update] there have not been any regular international flights.