Incessant rainfall across the country from Monday night has affected flights. According to Tribhuvan International Airport Office, both flights—domestic and international from TIA have been disrupted due to poor visibility following incessant rainfall.
KATHMANDU: A Nepal Airlines flight that flew to Kathmandu from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was diverted to India’s Lucknow due to poor visibility in Kathmandu. General Manager of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Premnath Thakur said that flight RA-416 was diverted to Lucknow due to poor visibility at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Meanwhile, a Shree Airlines […]
Foggy weather disrupted flights at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Thursday morning. According to the airport administration, some flights arriving to the airport landed as scheduled but most domestic and international flights supposed to have taken off from the airport in the morning got delayed due to poor visibility.
Flights operating from Tribhuvan International Airport have been affected due to poor visibility.
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KATHMANDU: The flights to and from Kathmandu at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) have been affected due to bad weather since this morning. Light rain is occurring in some places of the Kathmandu Valley. The TIA Airport Committee has stated that the take-offs and landings have been affected due to poor visibility. Meanwhile, six flights including […]
KATHMANDU: The flight services to and from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) have been affected due to poor visibility even today. Both domestic and international flight services have been affected. Currently, the visibility of the TIA is 2,000 meters, said Teknath Sitaula, the spokesperson of the TIA. “The flight services have been affected as minimum 2,800 […]
KATHMANDU, Jan 20: Domestic flights have been affected due to bad wing to bad weather witnessed since Thursday morning.
A total of eight airports --- three in terai and five others in the Himalayan region --- have remained shut owing to poor visibility due to the foggy sky as well as snowfall.
According to the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) administration, airports in Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Bhairahawa have suspended their services. They are yet to resume their services as of Thursday noon.
TIA spokesperson, Tek Nath Sitaula told Ratopati that Simara Airport in Bara resumed its services following improvement in the weather.
Similarly, flights to and from the airports in Lukla, Faplu, Simikot, Dolpa and Rara have also been hit hard by the worsening weather conditions.
With visibility below 1000 meters, the flights from and to the airports are not taking place, according to TIA officials. A regular flight required visibility of 1600 to 2000 meters.
Spokesperson Sitaula added that visibility in Kathmandu, Janakpur, Nepalgunj Chandragadhi, Surkhet, Pokhara and Tumlingtar is normal.
He shared that as many as two dozen domestic flights have so far been affected due to poor weather conditions.
International flights, however, have remained unaffected according to Sitaula.
Keshav Bhattarai, an officer at the TIA terminal duty office, informed that domestic flights were affected owing to poor visibility caused by bad weather combined with rainfall since early Monday morning.
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