Kathmandu: After a range of more than two months, the Domestic Terminal Building Kathmandu Airport in Nepal, on Thursday, was busy with activities back because Nepal continued domestic flights, with a capacity of 50% seating.
Regular domestic flights were suspended from May 3, a few days after consecutive order forced in Kathmandu Valley due to the spread of Covid-19.
According to the decision, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, continued regular domestic flights from Thursday (July 1), as well as air services to various destinations in this country.
“Resumption of flights has brought more for us.
Lockdown has brought life to be silent for many people, now flights back on the schedule have relieved our transportation mode.
Because the vehicle route is long yet about the road, it has a way, this completes the question of how Reach the goal, “Aarti Devi Poudel, a passenger who arrived at the airport for his flight to Ani.
According to Civil Aviation Authority Nepal (CAN), the supervisory body, a total of 64 domestic flights will operate every day.
Authority has enabled 15 flights every day to Yeti Airlines, 31 to Buddha Air, seven to Shree air, three to Saurya Air, two to Nepal Airlines, two to Tara Water, two to air summit and two to confiscation.
The government has paved the way for domestic flights with conditions not exceeding 50% of the total seating capacity.
The flight is currently targeted at the Trunk route.
During normal days, around 300 flights are used to take off and land in Tia every day, but given the Pandemic Covid-19, the authority has stated that only 64 daily flights will be allowed for now and follow the safety measures before and after Flight.
“We are advised to use cleaners throughout the flight, they (airlines) also gave us facial shield protocols and social distance at least one meter obeyed until we landed here in Kathmandu,” said Januka Shrestha, who returned to Kathmandu from Nepalgunj after two months.
Air service providers have made it mandatory for all passengers to fill out the declaration form on their medical history before the airline will issue boarding passes and airlines must notify every passenger as early as possible through text messages if there is a delay of flights to the airport’s crowd.
Also, airlines have provided face masks and shields for all passengers on each flight to ensure increased aircraft cleaning by focusing on high contact areas such as chairs and seat belts and filter the temperature of passengers twice before going up.
Passengers must get to the airport one and a half hours before their flight.
Tribhuvan International Airport Statistics showed that domestic operators lost 1.73 million passengers last year, which translated into loss of more than 5 billion in passenger income, excluding losses in cargo revenue.
By 2020, domestic passenger traffic at Kathmandu Airport fell to the lowest level since 2009, but airline officials said that domestic operators had recovered almost 90% of the number of pre-covid passengers.
According to statistics, the domestic airline brought 1.45 million passengers in 2020, plunging 54.28% from 2019.