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Nepal Airlines is likely to resume direct flight operations between Kolkata and Kathmandu around October-November this year.
Flight services had been stopped some three years back for want of aircrafts. As of now, Air India is the only carrier to have direct flights between the two cities.
According to Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Ambassador of Nepal to India, the flight services will resume around Durga Puja or latest by Diwali, later this year.
“It will be thrice-a-week service to begin with. And the services will be scaled up depending on the volume of the business,” he told reporters on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Nepal Airlines will operate a narrow-bodied Airbus 320, having a seating capacity of 160. “Our national carrier has currently purchased two new aircrafts; which will be used for resumption of services along the Kolkata-Kathmandu route,” the Ambassador added.
Nepal Airlines currently has direct flight services to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
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