Nepal Airlines

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Nepal Airlines
नेपाल वायुसेवा
Boeing 757-200 of Nepal Airlines
IATA code : RA
ICAO code : RNA
Call sign : NEPAL
Founding: 1958
Seat: Kathmandu , NepalNepalNepal 
Turnstile :

Kathmandu

Home airport : Kathmandu
Company form: State company
IATA prefix code : 285
Management: Madan Kharel
Fleet size: 10
Aims: National and international
Website: nepalairlines.com.np

Nepal Airlines ( Nepali नेपाल वायुसेवा , formerly Royal Nepal Airlines ) is the national airline of Nepal based in Kathmandu and based at Kathmandu Airport .

history

Former Hawker-Siddeley HS 748 for Royal Nepal Airlines in 1986

Nepal Airlines was founded in July 1958 as Royal Nepal Airlines and started operations with a Douglas DC-3 . A few years later, the Fokker F-27 was the first to modernize the fleet with a turboprop model. In 1970 representatives of Air France took over the management of the company and modernized both the management and the fleet: in 1972 the first jets were added, including the Boeing 727 .

In her early years, Royal Nepal Airlines flew to London Heathrow with a stopover in Frankfurt .

After the political developments in 2006 , in which King Gyanendra lost his power, the word royal was removed from the naming of the government, the military , the police and also the airline . It has been called Nepal Airlines since then .

On July 1, 2013, Nepal Airlines ordered two Airbus A320-200s to replace the outdated Boeing 757-200s . On February 9, 2015, the first A320-200 was delivered to Nepal Airlines.

Since November 2013, Nepal Airlines has been on the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union together with all other airlines from Nepal due to safety concerns . However, flights to Europe were no longer offered long before that.

Airbus A330-200 of Nepal Airlines on approach to Hong Kong

Between June and July of 2018, the company added two Airbus A330-200s to its fleet, which will subsequently be used on long-haul flights to Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Europe. However, this did not happen; the two machines were only used on medium-haul routes instead of on long-haul routes, while the Nepalese aviation authority intervened and investigated irregularities in the procurement of the aircraft. Due to the inefficient operation and a lack of staff for the new Airbus A330-200 (aircraft procurement did not go hand in hand with personnel planning for the new type of aircraft), Nepal Airlines announced in November of the same year that they urgently needed financial support from the government. At that point in time, liabilities of approximately $ 360.5 million had accumulated.

Destinations

Nepal Airlines flies from Kathmandu to numerous domestic cities and international destinations in the Middle East as well as in South and East Asia .

fleet

Airbus A320-200 of Nepal Airlines
Xi'an MA60 of Nepal Airlines

As of November 2018, the Nepal Airlines fleet consists of ten aircraft with an average age of 14.7 years:

Aircraft type number Orders Remarks Seats
( Business / Economy )
Airbus A320-200 2 with Sharklets equipped 158 ( 08/150)
Airbus A330-200 2 274 (18/256)
Boeing 757-200 1 Sale of the last machine planned for spring 2019, not yet completed 190 (16/174)
De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 3 one inactive 019 ( 0- / 019)
Xi'an MA60 2 free, one inactive 056 ( 0- / 056)
total 10 -

Incidents

From 1960 to October 2017 there were 13 total aircraft losses with 100 deaths at the company. Examples:

  • On January 25, 1970, a Fokker F-27-200 Friendship of Royal Nepal Airlines ( aircraft registration number 9N-AAR ) got caught in a heavy thunderstorm with turbulence and heavy squalls after a flight from Kathmandu , Nepal during the final approach to Delhi-Palam airport . The pilots lost control of the plane; it crashed three kilometers east of the airport. One crew member was killed, all other 22 occupants survived.
  • On September 26, 1992, a Harbin Yunshuji Y-12-II (9N-ACI) operated by Royal Nepal Airlines with 14 people on board broke the nose wheel tire when it took off from Lukla Airport. The nose landing gear broke, the machine collided with a dam outside the runway, was badly damaged and had to be written off. All occupants (2 crew members, 12 passengers) survived.
  • On February 16, 2014, another DHC-6-300 Twin Otter operated by Nepal Airlines (9N-ABB) had an accident in poor weather conditions. She was on the flight from Pokhara to Jumla . The pilots lost their bearings and crashed into a mountain near Sandhikhark in the Arghakhanchi district in western Nepal . All 18 occupants were killed (see also Nepal Airlines flight 183 ) .

See also

Web links

Commons : Nepal Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nepal Airlines is looking for partners in the Middle East , accessed on August 26, 2016
  2. ↑ Airbus - Nepal Airlines signs order for two Airbus A320s with Sharklets ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.airbus.com
  3. ↑ Airbus - Nepal Airlines fleet renewal underway with delivery of first A320, February 9, 2015 (English), accessed on February 10, 2015
  4. ↑ European Commission - List of airlines that are prohibited from operating in the EU, accessed on August 21, 2016
  5. ↑ Nepal Airlines adds maiden A330. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, June 28, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ Nepal Airlines under probe regarding A330 procurement. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, September 29, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Nepal Airlines hemorrhaging cash over A330 purchase. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, November 19, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ New A330s put Nepal Airlines in distress , accessed on December 3, 2018
  9. ↑ nepalairlines.com.np - International Destinations (English), accessed on August 21, 2016
  10. ↑ ch-aviation: Airline Information - Nepal Airlines (English), accessed on November 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ Nepal Airlines to end B757 ops in mid-1Q19 , ch-aviation, January 24, 2019
  12. ↑ Chinese aircraft company completes biggest periodic maintenance of MA60 in Nepal China News Service (CNS), July 5, 2016
  13. ↑ Accident Statistics Royal Nepal Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 11, 2017.
  14. ↑ Accident Statistics Nepal Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 11, 2017.
  15. ^ Accident report F-27 9N-AAR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 11, 2017.
  16. ^ Accident report Harbin Y-12 II 9N-ACI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 14, 2018.
  17. ^ Accident report DHC-6 9N-ABP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  18. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident involving the DHC-6 9N-ABO on May 16, 2013 in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report DHC-6 9N-ABB in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.