No disruption of domestic flights: NAC

Kathmandu / November 6: The Nepal Airlines Corporation has said as the air fuel was being airlifted from Kolkata, India, the operation of domestic flights would not see any problem.

Every day, the NAC is importing 40 tons of aviation fuel in two flights. The fuel is being used for domestic flights.

NAC Spokesperson Ramhari Sharma said the domestic flights would not be fully disrupted. Few flights can be halted, but. For some days, the domestic flights won’t be interrupted, he added.

Since the unofficial Indian blockade on Nepal, NAC has imported 700,000 litres of air fuel. Earlier, Nepal Oil Corporation’s office at Tribhuvan International Airport had urged the domestic airlines to cut at least 50 percent of flights.

Chief at Branch Office, Pradip Yadav, on Friday evening, informed that a meeting held at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation decided to make three flights daily to import aviation fuel from Calcutta. With this decision, the NAC is to make three flights to import the fuel from tomorrow. RSS