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The Kathmandu-Rumjatar flight has resumed while the road traffic has been blocked due to the flood. Rumjatar Airport in Okhaldhunga was not in operation since 2076.
Flights from Kathmandu to Rumzatar Airport in Okhaldhunga have started from Sunday. Currently, the airport in Rumjatar has been re-opened to fly two days a week.
Ramhari Khatiwada, the MP elected from Okhaldhunga, who is also the Chairman of the State System and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives, informed that the Rumjatar Airport has been re-opened for two days a week . "Summit Airlines aircraft will take flight on Sunday and Nepal Airlines aircraft will take flight every Wednesday," he said, "Flight was suspended at Rumjatar Airport in 2076". When people here were sick, they had to charter a helicopter and pay a minimum fare of 280,000. Today only 8 patients have come to Okhaldhunga from Kathmandu. 7 patients referred from Okhaldhunga have boarded a plane and gone to Kathmandu.'
The 19-seater aircraft of both airlines will take off at Rumjatar Airport . It is said that this airport has been re-operated to prepare for regular operation.
The civil aviation authority allowed Summit Air and Nepal Airlines to fly to Rumjatar airport after the floods and landslides after the incessant rains on October 11 and 12 blocked roads from Kathmandu to Kavre, Sindhuli and Okhaldhunga via Sindhuli.
Kathmandu-Rumjatar fare is 4 thousand 800 and when coming to Kathmandu from Rumjatar 4 thousand 600.
