Two years after the Pokhara International Airport came into operation, on Thursday, for the first time, a jet aircraft flew with full capacity of passengers.
Airbus A-319 aircraft of Sichuan Airlines landed in Pokhara with 129 passengers from Chhendu, China and landed in Kathmandu from there with 126 passengers. "Due to the non-regularity of international flights from Pokhara International Airport, confusion was spread that there was a technical error," Civil Aviation Authority Director General Pradeep Adhikari, who came from Pokhara on the same flight, told tourism professionals at a press conference held at Kathmandu Airport. Now do the business of making regular flights to Pokhara . The authority will help where it needs to be helped.
The ship from Chhendu landed in Pokhara via the Whiskey-41 air route connecting Pokhara from the sky of Kathmandu. From there, the aircraft landed in Kathmandu via Simra following IFR instrument flight rules.
The Deputy Director General of the Authority, Devchandra Lal Karna, who was on the flight, said that the design of the Pokhara International Airport was based on the capabilities of the Boeing-757, which was owned by the Nepal Airlines Corporation. The American Boeing 757 aircraft with a single gallery is considered to be an effective aircraft for domestic short and international medium distance flights (up to 7 thousand km). The same capacity is the Airbus A-319 plane flown from Pokhara by Sichuan on Thursday.
After landing in Kathmandu, Sichuan, according to the regular flight schedule, it flew to China with passengers. Deputy director Karna said that when this plane took off from Pokhara, which has a 2500-meter long runway, it took off from the middle of the runway.
'Earlier there were many doubts, misgivings and fabrications about Pokhara Airport. Someone said that because of the mountains, big ships cannot fly because of the mountains,'' said Karn, who was the general manager of Pokhara Airport earlier, "today, the confusion has been cleared . The promotional flight of the Airbus aircraft has proved that Pokhara Airport is technically sound.'
This is the third charter flight of Sichuan. It landed in Pokhara with 126 Chinese and foreign passengers participating in the international dragon boat race to be held in Pokhara from Sunday. This plane, which flew from there to Kathmandu, landed at Tribhuvan Airport on the 27th minute.
