Domestic and International flights cancelled on Thursday

April 21, 2006
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All domestic airlines under the Airline Operations Association of Nepal (AOAN) stalled operations on Thursday expressing solidarity to the ongoing pro-democracy movement of the country.

The Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation failed to operate its scheduled domestic flights even when the passengers had already checked in, report quoted a source at the Tribhuwan International Airport as saying.

“Quite a few passengers, who had reached the airport despite security and curfew hurdles, were all set to board the plane. However their flights were cancelled since the RNAC crew members failed to show up,” The HImalayan Times Daily quoted an unnamed source as saying.

The RNAC should have cancelled its flights in advance instead of causing inconvenience to the passengers, he said.

Mohan Khanal, managing director of the RNAC, said they were forced to cancel the flight due to time restrictions since the crew members reached the airport late. “We had to cancel all the scheduled domestic flights on Thursday since it was impossible to land at certain airports beyond the set time because of the weather factor,” he said.

The national carrier and all the other international airlines including Qatar Airways, Gulf Air, Druk Air, Thai Airways, Indian Airlines with the exception of Biman Bangladesh smoothly operated their international flights on Thursday, said TIA.

The airport, on an average, manages around 30 arrival and departure flights everyday. nepalnews.com pb Apr 21 06