Pokhara Airport

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Pokhara Airport
IATA: PKR – ICAO: VNPK
PKR
Location of airport in Nepal
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)
Serves Pokhara, Nepal
Elevation AMSL 2,712 ft / 827 m
Coordinates Coordinates: 28°12′03″N 083°58′55″E / 28.20083°N 83.98194°E / 28.20083; 83.98194
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 1,433 4,701 Asphalt
Sources: CAAN [1] and DAFIF [2][3]

Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK), is a regional airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. The airport was established on 4 July 1958 and is operated by the government (Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal). It offers regular connections to Kathmandu and Jomsom; and seasonal connections to Manang. Following a new agreement on air travel between India and Nepal,[4] Pokhara is to be the site of Nepal's second international airport. Construction started in the southeast of Pokhara in 2009 but is only progressing slowly.[5] In 2011 Buddha Air, a Nepali private airline, began international flights from Pokhara to Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, India,[6] and has announced plans to fly to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in the future.[7]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Agni Air Jomsom, Kathmandu [8]
air viva Kathmandu [9]
Buddha Air Kathmandu, Lucknow [10]
Guna Airlines Kathmandu [11]
Nepal Airlines Jomsom, Kathmandu, Manang [12]
Sita Air Jomsom, Kathmandu [13]
Tara Air Jomsom, Kathmandu [14]
Yeti Airlines Kathmandu [15]

Incidents and accidents

  • 6 November 1997 – A Necon Air Avro 748-100 (9N-ACM), after a flight from Kathmandu, suffered a hydraulic system failure after landing at Pokhara Airport and ran off the runway. The pilot steered the plane back on the runway after 100 metres (330 ft), but it ran onto the ramp and struck another Avro 748 (9N-ACW) of Nepal Airlines), which was parked engineless. There were no fatalities among the 44 passengers and 4 crew.[16]
  • 22 August 2002 – A Shangri-La Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, on a flight from Jomsom to Pokhara, crashed into a hill which was under complete cloud cover following 3 days of continuous rain. All 3 crew and 15 passengers were killed.[17]

Flight Booking

Domestic airlines are not selling tickets for Pokhara directy to the customers. They are selling their flight ticket by the local travel agencies and agents. So you can book your Pokhara flight ticket with local travel agencies. Buddha air, Yeti Airlines and Simrik air are the operating their regular flights in this sector. You can get detail flight schedule and booking options online.

References

  1. ↑ Pokhara Airport at Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, accessed 4 March 2011
  2. ↑ Airport information for VNPK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  3. ↑ Airport information for PKR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  4. ↑ "International Pokhara: Buddha Air eyes Indian tourism and pilgrim market", Nepali Times issue #274, 30 October 2010, accessed 4 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Construction of international airport in Nepal's Pokhara inaugurated", Xinhuanet, 9 December 2009, accessed 4 March 2011.
  6. ↑ "Buddha Air Lucknow flight", buddhaair.com, accessed 28 September 2012.
  7. ↑ "Buddha Air plans to start Pokhara-New Delhi flight", "Tour Nepal", accessed 28 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "Flying Schedule". Agni Air. Retrieved 8 June 2010. 
  9. ↑ "Real-time Schedule". air viva. Retrieved 12 September 2012. 
  10. ↑ "Flight Schedule". Buddha Air. Retrieved 20 December 2010. 
  11. ↑ http://www.gunaairlines.com/destination/index.php
  12. ↑ "Schedule Effective from 15 May 2010 to 30 October 2010". Nepal Airlines. Retrieved 7 June 2010. 
  13. ↑ "Destinations". Sita Air. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  14. ↑ "Flight Schedule". Tara Air. Retrieved 20 December 2010. 
  15. ↑ "Scheduled flights". Yeti Airlines. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  16. ↑ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 18 November 2006
  17. ↑ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 19 November 2006

See Also

List of airports in Nepal

External links

Media related to Pokhara Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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