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Hemant Arjyal

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Spheres for course correction

Published On: May 12, 2018 12:18 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

With his Indian counterpart, Nepali PM should take up the issue of additional checks by Indian security officers at TIA. No such arrangement exists anywhere in the world.

It’s logistics, stupid

Published On: April 28, 2018 12:11 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Most likely Bhairahawa airport will be ready first, but we won’t be able to run it effectively unless Indian side grants us more entry and exit points.

Wild goose chase?

Published On: April 14, 2018 12:22 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

It is beyond belief that a B777 flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur should go missing so close to landmass.

Off-the-cuff solution

Published On: March 31, 2018 01:04 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

It is captain’s responsibility to ensure that passengers are landed safely but ATC is also responsible.

The void in the middle

Published On: March 17, 2018 01:18 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

B757 was popular because of the combination of brute takeoff power topped by versatility and economics of operation with sleek architecture.

Nepal saga of Bell-47

Published On: March 3, 2018 01:00 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Whoever flew Bell-47 to and from remote locations did so with nothing more than a basic compass and a map, without weather forecasts

A heartless body #989

Published On: February 17, 2018 12:02 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

NA management is like a body without heart that maintains a layback attitude, passengers be damned.

The flying salesman

Published On: February 3, 2018 12:59 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

His record will remain unbeaten as no one will possibly ever last that long in the job.

The Dubai debacle

Published On: December 2, 2017 12:21 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

New Chinese markets provide the strongest hope for the continuation of A380 program.

Ferry tales

Published On: November 18, 2017 12:45 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Ferry, in aviation parlance, is a task of delivering an aircraft to a designated location. A new aircraft on its first ferry might mostly carry spares/tools and a few personnel trained for its upkeep. On a day-to-day basis, such flights can be nothing more than “repositioning” of an aircraft due to schedule or maintenance related requirements.

Kathmandu rendezvous

Published On: November 4, 2017 12:18 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

What is the point of spending tons of money on BBC and CNN tv ads when the ground reality is so pathetic?

Superjumbo next!

Published On: October 7, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

What would happen in the unlikely event of Nepal Airlines acquiring Superjumbo in its next order?

With or without Nijgarh

Published On: September 16, 2017 12:12 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

The new RNP approach has debunked the hype about the danger of using Kathmandu’s ‘only approach’.

O’Leary’s buses

Published On: September 2, 2017 12:59 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Every time Michael O’Leary makes headline Ryan’s website hits spike up, netting in more sales.

Our own Bransons

Published On: August 19, 2017 12:22 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

He was caught climbing down the window of a girl’s dormitory one night. She was no other than his headmaster’s daughter

Our own Bransons

Published On: August 18, 2017 08:22 PM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

He was caught climbing down the window of a girl’s dormitory one night. She was no other than his headmaster’s daughter

No for ‘neo’

Published On: July 29, 2017 12:20 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

On A380, Airbus and Emirates are stuck together. Having heavily committed Emirates is more struck

Accident of birth

Published On: July 15, 2017 01:01 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

The landing of DC-3 at Simra in 1946 was baffling as Nepal apparently had an operational strip even as it owned no aircraft

Aye aye, captain

Published On: July 1, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Will international civil aviation regulators check if their methods need adjustments during their next audit of Nepali aviation?

Qatar-strophe and Nepal

Published On: June 17, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Nepal Airlines was finally forced to clear a small due to Iran that had been outstanding since 1997