Tribhuvan International Airport

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Coordinates: 27°41′47″N 085°21′32″E / 27.69639, 85.35889

Tribhuvan International Airport
IATA: KTM – ICAO: VNKT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)
Serves		Kathmandu, Nepal
Elevation AMSL		4,390 ft / 1,338 m
Website		www.tiairport.com.np
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
02/20	3,050	10,007	Asphalt
Sources: CAAN ^[1] and DAFIF ^[2]^[3]

Tribhuvan International Airport (IATA: KTM, ICAO: VNKT) is an international airport situated in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Tribhuvan is the sole international airport in Nepal. There are two terminals, one domestic and one international. Facilities include a few shops and cafes. In the international terminal there are several duty free shops. Radisson Hotel Kathmandu operates an executive lounge for First and Business class passengers for different airlines and Thai Airways operates a business lounge for its Business class passengers as well as Star Alliance Gold card holders. A recent extension to the international terminal has made the distance to the airplanes shorter. At the present, about 22 international airlines connect Nepal to various other destinations in Asia, the Middle east and Europe. The airport is about six kilometres from the city center in the Kathmandu valley.

1 Airlines and destinations
2 Past operators
3 Airport Contact
4 Incidents and accidents
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Domestic^[4]

Agni Air (Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Jumla, Nepalgunj)
Buddha Air (Bhadrapur, Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Janakpur, Pokhara, Simara)
Cosmic Air (Bhairawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Nepalganj, Pokhara, Simara, Tumlingtar)
Gorkha Airlines (Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Jumla, Nepalgunj)
Nepal Airlines (Bhadrapur, Bharatpur, Bhojpur, Biratnagar, Dhangadi, Lukla, Nepalgunj, Phaplu, Pokhara, Ramechhap, Rumjatar, Simara, Surkhet, Tumlingtar)
Yeti Airlines (Bhadrapur, Bhairawa, Bharatpur, Birantnagar, Lamidanda, Lukla, Meghauli, Nepalganj, Phaplu, Pokhara, Rumjatar, Simara)

Charter flights are available from Yeti Airlines. Buddha Air, Cosmic Air, Nepal Airlines and Yeti Airlins fly mountain flights.

International ^[5]

Air Arabia (Sharjah)
- Fly Yeti (Kuala Lumpur, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, (starting soon are Doha, Riydah, Singapore, Seoul, New Delhi, Bangkok and Hong Kong)
Air China (Chengdu, Lhasa)
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Dhaka)
China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
Dragonair (Hong Kong)
Druk Air (Delhi, Kolkata, Paro)
GMG Airlines (Dhaka)
Gulf Air (Bahrain, Riyadh, Dammam)
Indian Airlines (Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi)
Jet Airways (Delhi)
Jetlite (Delhi, Hyderabad)
Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
Nepal Airlines (Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka-Kansai, Shanghai-Pudong)
Orient Thai Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi) ^[6]
Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi, Lahore)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
SilkAir (Singapore)
RAK Airways (Nasir Al Jaham) (coming soon)

[edit] Past operators

Aeroflot (Moscow, New Delhi)
Air Nepal International (defunct 2006) (Bangkok, Doha, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna, April 2007)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt,Munich, Karachi)
Necon Air (defunct 2003) (Patna, Varanasi)
Singapore Airlines (Dhaka, Singapore, May 2002)
Transavia (Amsterdam, Sharjah)
Martinair (Amsterdam, February 2006)

[edit] Airport Contact

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[edit] Incidents and accidents

Thai Airways International Flight 311 - July 31, 1992 Airbus 310-304 crashes in Langtang National Park killing all 113 on board.
PIA Flight 268 - September 28, 1992, a Airbus A300B4-203 crashed landed at the airport killing all 167 on board.

17 January 1995 - Royal Nepal Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (9N-ABI), flight RA133 from Kathmandu to Rumjatar, had problems getting airborne at Tribhuvan International Airport, struck the airfield perimeter fence and plunged into fields. Of three crew and 21 passengers, one crew member and one passenger were killed. ^[7]

5 September 1999 - Necon Air Flight 128 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, an BAe 748-501 Super 2B (9N-AEG), collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area 25km west of Kathmandu, while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport. All 10 passengers and 5 crew were killed. ^[8]