Nepali airline starts India flights

Kathmandu: Nepal's campaign to bring one million tourists this year receives a boost this week with a Nepali private airline beginning flights to India.
Domestic airline Buddha Air, which went international last year with flights to Bhutan, Friday launches its inaugural flight to Lucknow, the main city in Uttar Pradesh.
"We are starting with a 47-seater aircraft but will switch over to a bigger one once it catches on," Buddha's marketing manager Rupesh Joshi told IANS. "By March, we hope to start flights to Kolkata."
The 15-year-old airline, with an asset of $30 million and covering nine destinations in Nepal, will be initially running three flights a week to Lucknow in the evening - Wednesday, Friday, Sunday - with a return flight at night.
The inaugural flight with five passengers from Kathmandu, however, will return packed with 44 from Lucknow.
Joshi said the Indian authorities had given permission to run flights to four Indian cities - Lucknow, Kolkata, Varanasi and Patna.
07/01/11 IANS/Economic Times

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