NAC to send aircraft to C Check to Israel

Just a month before the official opening of ambitious national campaign Nepal Tourism Year 2011, the national flag career is sending one of its aircraft to C Check to Israel.
"We are sending one of the two Boeing 747s aircraft for C Check in the third week of December to Israel,” said a source at the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC). "There is a strong possibility that for around 45 days the NAC might have to fly only one aircraft reducing half of the international flights."
On January 14, the ambitious NTY 2011 is going to be started officially. At a time when the national flag career needed more aircraft, the sending of one of its aircrafts would definitely hit the tourist arrivals.
Though there are over two dozen foreign airlines flying to Nepal currently, only two Nepali airliners fly on the international route. Apart from the national flag career, Buddha Air -- a private airliner – has also started flying to Bhutan recently. It is planning to start flying to Indian city of Kolkata and Patana by October.
The national flag career has two age-old 180-seater Boeings that are flying on Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Qatar, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New Delhi route. Earlier too, the NAC is sending its aircrafts to C Check to Israel, turn by turn reducing the flights to half.
Meanwhile, the other NAC aircraft that has been grounded due to its faulty gear will take another week to be fixed. "Though, we have ordered the spare parts from Canada, it will take some time to resume the suspended flights, the source added. “The spare parts cost NAC around Rs 300,000,” it said.
Due to the suspension of the flights on Kathmandu-Delhi-Kathmandu route, NAC is incurring a huge loss as according to the Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration, fuelled by the Indian tourists, the South Asian arrivals have seen a continuous growth of 35.1 per cent in August compared to the same month in 2009.