Organizing a press meet, the company said that the airline had officially commenced flights on its Boeing 737-800 on Monday. The airline´s parent company TUI Nederland had also completed a week-long promotional tour of Nepal for 150 Dutch travel agents, Manfred Lahey, Manager Product Long Haul at TUI Nederland, said. [break]
The company is the Dutch arm of the German company TUI AG, which is one of the world´s largest tourist companies and owns several airlines, hotels, travel agencies, retail stores and cruise and container ships.
Lahey said that the company was excited about the prospects in Nepal for both the airline and the parent company. The company offers an integrated tourism services which combines its airline and travel agencies. The company is offering seven-day and 15-day packages.
Lahey also expressed confidence that other arms of TUI Travel PLC, the tourism division of TUI AG, could also enter the Nepali market if this venture proved to be successful. The airline has appointed Malla Travels as its local agent.
China Eastern launches E-ticketing
KATHMANDU, Oct 12: China Eastern Airlines -- one of the biggest airlines in China -- has started first electronic ticketing with Galileo Global Distribution System (GDS) in Nepal. “Dynamic Travels become the first travel agency to issue electronic ticket of the airlines,” states a press release issued by the airlines on Monday.
Sub-companies of the Shanghai-based carrier are located in eleven provinces of China. The 18-year old airline company operates in 80 international and regional routes and 330 domestic routes, connecting 110 cities of the world.
Galileo has been named ´Best GDS´ in the Asia Pacific region, receiving the coveted Travel Supplier Award at the 20th Annual TTG Travel Award 2009.
SCBN, Tilganga join hands to eliminate blindness
KATHMANDU, Oct 12: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal (SCBN), in its effort to eliminate avoidable blindness, has joined hands with Tilganga Eye Center for conducting at least 15 eye screening camps for underserved population in the Kathmandu Valley and neighboring districts.
Sujit Mundul, chief executive officer of the bank, and Dr Sanduk Ruit, medical director at Tilganga, signed an agreement to this effect on the occasion of the World Sight Day on Monday.
Under the agreement, the bank will be sponsoring cataract surgeries at the Tilganga Hospital for 700 needy patients from the targeted 6,000 OPD cases to be screened in those camps, states a press release. These cataract surgeries and other eye care facilities are being extended from the funds the bank raised through Walkathon, an annual event of the bank, and other charity events.
SCBN has been organizing various awareness and fund raising events for its community initiatives such as ´seeing is believing´ and ´living with HIV/AIDS´. The bank has already sponsored more than 4,000 cataract surgeries in Nepal over the last few years.
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