Sichuan Airlines to operate Chengdu – Kathmandu flight
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Kathmandu : Sichuan Airlines of People’s Republic of China will operate flight from Chengdu to Kathmandu via Lhasa from January 2015
The flight will commence in January 2015, operating daily using a two-class, 132-seat Airbus A319 aircraft. The departure and arrival times will be announced at a later date.
Airbus says its single-aisle A320-series, which includes the smaller A319, are suited to high altitude airports due to its “exceptional take-off and climb characteristics”.
More than 113,000 Chinese people visited Nepal in 2013, making it the mountainous nation’s second largest tourism source market, behind India. China and Nepal also recently revised their bilateral Air Service Agreement (ASA) to provide 70 weekly flights between the two counties by 2016, up from current 35 flights.
At present , Air China operates 10 weekly flights between Chengdu and Kathmandu, include daily direct services.
Likewise, the China Eastern Airlines has commenced daily services between Shanghai and Kathmandu, with a stop in Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province. Previously the airline served the Kunming-Kathmandu route direct, without the Shanghai extension.
The new flight services will be operated using a single-aisle Boeing 737 aircraft.
Dec. 8, 2014
Elsewhere in the South Asia region, China Eastern flies to Colombo, Dhaka, Delhi, Kolkata and the Maldives from either Shanghai or Kunming. – traveldailymedia.com dec 7 2014
