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International flights resume after six months

By Our Reporter

Regular International flights have resumed from Wednesday after a halt of about six months. The regular international flights to and from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) were suspended since 23 March.

According to TIA source, a wide-body plane of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) left for Narita of Japan as the resumption of regular international flight at around 1 am on Wednesday.

Flight operation department of TIA informed that a plane of Himalaya Airlines flew to Chongqing of China on Wednesday as another regular flight.

Altogether three to four international flights, including the chartered ones, will be allowed to operate in the TIA in a day as per the decision of the government.

The government has decided to allow bringing a maximum of 800 passengers a day.

Three chartered flights — two from Doha and one from Kuwait were operated on Tuesday to bring 416 Nepali citizens stranded there.

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