Himalaya Airlines scheduled flight to Doha from End of May.
May 23, 2016 – Himalaya Airlines established with a joint venture of Nepal and Tibetan investment, is set to take off for its regular commercial flights from May 31 i. e. Jestha 18. The airline is going to start its scheduled flights for Doha, capital of Qatar.
The Vice President of the company Bijay Shrestha informed that the flight date and time schedule had been set for Doha in a press conference conducted by the airline in Kathmandu today. The Airbus 320-200 series aircraft owned by the company will be used to conduct this regular flight to Doha from Kathmandu. The aircraft is a 158 seater airplane with 8 business class seats and 150 economy class seats.
This regular flight is scheduled to takeoff from Kathmandu at 11 PM and will land at Doha 1 AM the local times. The returning flights from Doha to Kathmandu depart Doha at 2:30 AM the same day. There will be three flights a week for first fifteen days on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday taking off from Kathmandu to Doha and Wednesday, Friday and Sunday taking off from Doha to Kathmandu. Ultimately, the flights will be extended to daily flight after the 15 days of the first flight.
Vice President Shrestha informed that he is very happy to announce this regular flight schedule of Kathmandu-Doha-Kathmandu. He also said that the airline is fully dedicated to provide the most convenient service to the passenger contributing the a cultural aspect of the country. He also expects that the flight will help to strengthen the tourism aspect of both the counties and strengthen the relationship between the public of the countries.
Himalaya Airlines has authorized Kliyopatra Travels as its General Sales Agent GSA for Kathmandu-Doha-Kathmandu flight. The company will work for the improvement in market of the airline and also the reservation and booking of the flight tickets.
The airline is dedicated to provide high level service to the passenger in competitive amount of fare. The 60% travelers will be Nepali. Himalaya Airlines is another new name in Nepali aviation dedicated to provide a warm, comfortable and friendly services to its passengers.
This airline established on August 2014 started its very first commercial flight on April 12 flying to Colombo from Kathmandu.
The airline is continuing its effort to obtain permission to initiate its commercial flight to India. Their proposal is in the review as informed to them 10 days before and were demanded to produce some more documents which the airline has completed and they are expecting a positive outcome from them very soon according to Shrestha.
The airlines is aimed to conduct regular flights to Lhasa, Chengdu, Beijing with New Delhi. The airline is targeted to provide services utilizing 15 aircrafts to fly to the various major destinations of Asia in near future. Himalaya Airline was establishes with Tibetan investment of 48.99% share and 51.01% share of Nepali company.
