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The airport was originally named Gauchaur Airport, after the area of Kathmandu where it was situated. In Nepali , "Gauchaur" refers to a place where cows graze. [ 6 ] The formal beginning of aviation in Nepal is generally placed at Gauchaur in 1949 with the landing of a Beechcraft Bonanza carrying the Indian ambassador, although there are ...
The busiest airports in Nepal are based on the data from Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal ... Airport Year traffic Tribhuvan International Airport: 7,327,042 Pokhara ...
This is a list of airports in Nepal, sorted by location. 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 .
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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. [7] [8] In 1977, the airport was renamed Gautam Buddha Airport in honor of Gautam Buddha, who ...
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 ...
Tara Air Pvt. Ltd. is an airline headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal. [3] It is a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines.Tara Air was formed in 2009 using aircraft from the Yeti Airlines fleet and is based at Tribhuvan International Airport, with a secondary hub at Nepalgunj Airport.
Terminal Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal - Biratnagar Airport . Biratnagar Airport commenced operations on 6 July 1958. [5]On 15 August 2017, during the August 2017 Nepal and India floods the runway of Biratnagar Airport was flooded, along with other parts of India and Nepal, and the airport was forced to suspend its operations.