Repatriation flights restarts from today

KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has announced that the fifth phase of repatriation flights will begin from Tuesday (today). A meeting held on Monday at MoCTCA published a new schedule for the repatriation flights.

According to the ministry, Air Arabia will conduct a flight from Sarjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday while on Wednesday, Etihad Airways and Fly Dubai will conduct one flight each from Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE.

Similarly, on August 27 Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) will evacuate Nepalis from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Himalaya Airlines will repatriate people from Dammam in Saudi Arabia and Turkish Airlines will repatriate people from Turkey.

On August 28, both NAC and Himalaya Airlines will repatriate passengers from Malaysia while Qatar Airways will repatriate passengers from Doha in Qatar.

On August 29, Silk Air will evacuate Nepalis from Australia while Korean Air will bring Nepalis from South Korea. On August 30, NAC, Himalaya Airlines and Malindo Air will be conducting one flight each from Malaysia while on August 3 NAC and Himalaya Airlines will repatriate Nepalis from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, respectively.

On September 1, NAC will conduct repatriation flights from Doha and Kuwait while Himalaya Airlines will conduct a flight from Doha.