Kathmandu, Jan 12. Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation will increase flights as well as begin flying to new destinations from March 2001, a press-release of the corporation said today.

Flights to New Delhi will increase from 12 flights a week to 14, according to the airlines. Similarly one more flight will be added to Bangalore, bringing it to three. Weekly flights to Mumbai from Kathmandu will also increase from 3 to 4, Singapore from 2 to 3 and Hongkong from 3 to 4.

With the induction of the new Boeing 767 in December, RNAC has also decided to fly twice weekly directly to Osaka, Japan. Only a third flight will stop over at Shanghai, China. At present, all three flights to Osaka are via Shanghai.

RNAC is also expanding its wings to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where it will fly twice a week. It is also planning two flights a week to Seoul of South Korea via Shanghai.

The airlines has four Boeing aircraft in its fleet operating international services. A Boeing 767 was leased from Lauda Air only recently.