IANS[ WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2005 12:04:42 PM]
NEW DELHI: Air Sahara will resume its daily service to Kathmandu Sep 1, exactly seven months after a royal coup and declaration of emergency forced the airline to shut operations to the Himalayan kingdom.
'We should resume services to Kathmandu Sep 1. It's a sector that has a lot of demand and we've lost out on revenue after the political events in Nepal, but things on the flight services front should be normal soon,' Air Sahara president Ronojoy Dutta said.
Air Sahara cancelled flights between Delhi and Kathmandu after King Gyanendra Feb 1 sacked the Sher Bahadur Deuba government and declared a state of emergency with the army's help.
The day Gyanendra took over, an Air Sahara morning flight had reached Kathmandu and hovered over Tribhuvan international airport before returning to Delhi as air traffic controllers refused permission to land.
Following the closure of Nepal's airspace, other Indian airlines - Jet Airways and State-run Indian Airlines - also cancelled services to the country.
India's Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had said that flights would resume only when the Nepal government created a conducive situation.
'We hope to resume services before Sep 1 as we're losing revenue every day, but these things are not just in our hands. The feedback from our partners (travel agents) indicates that the passengers want this (flight) to be operational as soon as possible,' Dutta said.
Dutta added that the airline was looking to launch operations on the Hong Kong and Bangkok routes, subject to a go-ahead from the government and availability of airport slots."
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