Last week, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Sudan Kiranti said that up to 10 aircraft will be purchased for Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) in the current fiscal year.
As per sources, today, the Nepal Airlines Corporation has called for tenders for purchasing three aircraft.
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The national flag carrier stated that a call for tenders has been made for the procurement of three planes for operating flights in remote areas. NAC is in the process of buying three Twin Otter planes for this purpose.
It is said the NAC is purchasing these aircraft through its internal resources. Nepal Airlines currently has only two Twin Otter aircraft for operating flights in the domestic sector.
Nepal Airlines is currently facing acute shortage of aircraft for its regular routes due to non-operational Chinese planes. Nepal Airlines has decided to sell those five Aircraft purchased from china at Rs 666 crores at a price of just Rs 22 crore.
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Eight years after acquiring a batch of Chinese planes it had hoped to fly on underserved mountain routes, but it didn't work as planned, Nepal Airlines finally decided that planes need to be disposed off, after the direction of the Ministry of Finance of Nepal.
In 2012, the corporation had made a purchase agreement of four Y12E and two MA60 aircraft from China. One of these planes was non-operation due to accident, while the remaining five were sitting idle in the parking lot of Tribhuvan International Airport.
