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Airlines<br />
Fly to Nepal with Himalaya Airlines!<br />
Direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Kathmandu five times a week<br />
Nepal offers breathtaking views of nature<br />
and is home to the tallest mountain in the<br />
world. Travellers are now able to enjoy<br />
Nepal by flying directly to its capital,<br />
Kathmandu, with Himalaya Airlines!<br />
A Nepal-China joint venture, the airline<br />
will operate direct flights, five times<br />
a week.<br />
In a special inaugural flight ceremony<br />
which took place on February 10, the<br />
flight from Kathmandu to Kuala Lumpur<br />
saw Nepali Ambassador to Malaysia,<br />
H.E. Dr. Niranjan Man Singh Basnyat,<br />
Charge d’affaires a.i. at the Kathmandubased<br />
Malaysian Embassy, Ahmad Phadil<br />
Mohamed Ismail, Nepal's Culture,<br />
Tourism & Civil Aviation Minister, Jiwan<br />
Bahadur Shahi, Malaysia Airports<br />
Managing Director, Datuk Badlisham<br />
Ghazali and Himalaya Airlines President,<br />
Zhao Guo Qiang.<br />
Zhao said, "We are really thrilled to launch<br />
direct flights to Kuala Lumpur as this is<br />
one of our core markets in the Asia Pacific<br />
region and we have around 700,000<br />
Nepalese working here. For the upcoming<br />
weeks, we have received an overwhelming<br />
response for the flight bookings which<br />
has given us confidence that we are here<br />
to stay. This definitely is going to<br />
contribute towards the cordial relationship<br />
as well as business development between<br />
Nepal and Malaysia."<br />
Meanwhile, Badlisham said, "Himalaya<br />
Airlines, a full service carrier, has showed<br />
growth in its route networks since it<br />
started operations in May 2016. This<br />
latest destination to Kuala Lumpur<br />
emphasises the ongoing commitment<br />
to connect Nepal directly to Asia Pacific<br />
countries. This inaugural set-up will<br />
definitely make KLIA into a more effective<br />
hub for connecting business travellers<br />
and tourists from Nepal to destinations<br />
in South East Asia.<br />
"There is a strong demand for direct<br />
flights to Kuala Lumpur and indeed<br />
Malaysia is steadily becoming an<br />
increasingly important and huge market<br />
in the South East Asian region. The new<br />
direct flight will also usher in a boost in<br />
trade and tourism and help us continue<br />
forming stronger ties between both<br />
countries," he added.<br />
The event also witnessed a cake-cutting ceremony<br />
between Malaysia Airports' Managing Director,<br />
Datuk Badlisham Ghazali (second from left) with<br />
representatives from Himalaya Airlines<br />
US-Bangla Airline and Malaysia Airports' representatives<br />
during the inaugural flight ceremony held at KLIA, recently<br />
US-Bangla Airlines<br />
flying to<br />
Kuala Lumpur<br />
from March<br />
Malaysia Airports has welcomed yet another airline to its family as private<br />
carrier US-Bangla Airlines has begun flying from Dhaka to Kuala Lumpur<br />
since March 1.<br />
The airline will operate five weekly flights from Dhaka to Kula Lumpur with<br />
a 164-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft. It will fly from Dhaka at 8pm every<br />
day, except Friday and Saturday and will arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 2am,<br />
local time.<br />
The airline began operating in July 2014 and now flies to Kathmandu,<br />
Muscat, Singapore, Bangkok and Kolkata from Dhaka. Within Bangladesh,<br />
US-Bangla flies to Chittagong, Cox's Bazaar, Jessore, Sylhet, Saidpur,<br />
Rajshahi and Barisal.<br />
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