Nepal Airlines takes delivery of A330-200 aircraft

Nepal Airlines received (28-Jun-2018) one A330-200 aircraft (9N-ALY), leased from Hi Fly. Nepal Airlines deputy MD Ganesh Bahadur Chand said the airline plans to deploy the aircraft on Kathmandu-Dubai service from 01-Aug-2018, pending approval from Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, and said it will also be deployed on existing services to Doha and Bangkok "for at least a month". He added that Nepal Airlines aims to use the aircraft to launch new services to Riyadh and destinations in Japan and South Korea in the future. [more - original PR]