Four regular flights to operate from Phaplu to Kathmandu weekly

Kathmandu: Four regular flights will operate weekly from Phaplu Airport in Salleri, the headquarters of Solukhumbu, to Kathmandu. Nepal Airlines has started operating four weekly flights on the route.

Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) informed that Nepal Airlines has run flight services every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. The Phaplu-Kathmandu air services that had been halted for a protracted time due to technical glitches with the aircraft are now back in operation.

According to a senior official of CAAN in Phaplu, Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, the resumption of flights has been made possible after the maintenance of the aircraft. The flight that was in operation once a week was ‘grounded’, which resulted in a suspension of Phaplu-Kathmandu services for a long time.

According to the station chief of the Nepal Airlines in Phalpu, Tenzing Sherpa, flight services on this route had remained completely disrupted since mid-December 2024 through mid-April 2025.

Mahesh Adhikari, a local businessperson from Salleri, said, ‘With the resumption of regular flights, the compulsion to travel the disaster-torn ‘BP Highway’ to get to Kathmandu has ended. Yet, the air service must be regular and reliable, not just temporary.’

In the past, flight disruptions have caused several complications for travel, business, emergency treatment, and essential tasks. Karma Sherpa, senior vice president of the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN), mentioned that tourism business operators are elated about the resumption of flights in the tourist district.

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