KATHMANDU, June 20: Two more airline companies from abroad will be providing services from and to the Bhairahawa-based Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA).

KATHMANDU, August 13: Air Arabia, which has been flying from UAE to Kathmandu since Monday, has started carrying passengers from both destinations from Thursday. Due to the lack of rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing facility at Nepal's airport, Air Arabia had been carrying passengers coming to Nepal from the UAE since Monday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 29: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has formed a taskforce to probe into the alleged carelessness shown by Air Arabia while conducting a repatriation flight from Sharjah on August 25.

MELAMCHI, March 26: Three people from Sindhulanchowk district are kept in quarantines after authorities confirmed that they returned Nepal in the same aircraft travelled by 19-year-old lady, who was tested positive for COVID-19 upon her arrival at home from France via Qatar. The three had returned Kathmandu on March 17 from an aircraft of the Air Arabia.