Kathmandu Airport is open from Sunday night for aircraft landing from the north

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The ban on aircraft landing from the northern point (Runway-Two Zero) of Tribhuvan International Airport's only runway has been lifted from Sunday night.

Kathmandu Airport is open from Sunday night for aircraft landing from the north

In order to connect both points of the runway through a taxi-way, the length of the 3,500 meter long runway was moved to the south by 226 meters (shortened) from the 20th of Chait.

Due to this, mountain flights and domestic flights to land from the Buddh side were banned, while some international airlines flying long distances had to reduce their flights. "From Monday, the runway of Kathmandu airport will be maintained at the same distance", said Engineer Dipendra Shrestha, who is working in the airport's infrastructure, to Kantipur, "The final construction work will be completed on Sunday night". Two new taxiways have been added above the Alpha taxiway that entered the previous runway during the period. Large jet aircraft will use the new taxiway to enter and leave the international apron, which will be moved to the north shortly. Due to expansion of the parallel taxi-way connecting the point of the northern runway and associated works, landing of aircraft from the northern point was prohibited on Chait 19 (April 1).

At that time, the company involved in the construction said that this rule would apply for three months. Director Shrestha said that the work of both taxiways was completed within 77 days. According to him, the construction of parallel taxi-ways on the north runway will further increase the capacity of the Kathmandu airport runway. Now the crew will be able to take the ship up to the threshold from the alpha taxi-way to the north. The rule that international airlines have to reduce the weight of passengers and cargo has also been removed.

Kathmandu Airport aims to serve 10 million passengers annually, according to the Asian Development Bank's master plan of 2016, aprons for 16 narrowbody parking at Tribhuvan International Airport, end-to-end parallel taxi-ways for aircraft entry-departure from both points of the three-kilometer runway. , Hangar and other physical infrastructure and construction work is being done to repair the ship.