KASKI, Sept 23: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Sudan Kirati said discussions would be held on regular operation of flights between Pokhara International Airport and Chinese cities during high-level meetings in China.

POKHARA, April 16: Pokhara International Airport, which has been closed since Friday, opened only at 2.30 pm on Sunday. Flights to and from Pokhara had been affected since Thursday evening due to heavy fog.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: On January 15, the bodies of 48 people who died in the accident of Yeti Airlines aircraft in Pokhara have been brought to Kathmandu for postmortem.

POKHARA, Jan 17: On Sunday, an ATR72-500 series plane of Yeti Airlines with call sign 9N ANC crashed in Pokhara killing 72 passengers. The cause of the accident has not yet been identified. There are lots of speculations about the cause of the accident. The government has formed an investigation committee to study the incident. The process of identifying the dead bodies of the crash victims and handing them over to their relatives is currently underway.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Government authorities have decided to send the unidentified bodies of those who were killed in the plane crash of Yeti Airlines to Kathmandu for DNA testing. A helicopter has arrived in Pokhara from Kathmandu to take the dead bodies.

POKHARA, Jan 16: One more body of Yeti Air plane crash victim has been recovered.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: The post-mortem of the people who died in the plane crash of Yeti Airlines in Seti Gorge in Pokhara on Sunday has started.

POKHARA, Jan 16: The post-mortem of the bodies of the people who died in the Yeti Airlines plane crash on Sunday has not yet started.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Airport authorities have set up a call center at the Tribhuvan International Airport to provide information about the Yeti Airlines plane crash that occurred in Pokhara this morning.

POKHARA, Jan 15: After an airplane crash in Pokhara on Sunday morning, as many as 39 bodies have been taken to the Western Regional Hospital so far.

KATHMANDU, A crane is being used for search and rescue at the plane crash site of Yeti Air in Pokhara.

Biggest ever domestic flight crash

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KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The plane crash of Yeti Airlines that happened today in Pokhara has been found to be the biggest crash in Nepal's domestic flights so far.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: Deepak Regmi, administrative officer of District Administration Office Kaski, said that the bodies of the passengers who died in the plane crash that happened this morning in the gorge of Seti River in Pokhara were brought to Gandaki Hospital.

My name is Arun Tamu. I was at home on Sunday morning. The site where the plane crashed  is not far from my house. Suddenly we heard a loud sound. After that, when we rushed to the scene, we were the only people from the village. It took some time for the police to come but we started the rescue effort.

POKHARA, Jan 1: Pokhara International Airport has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Top leaders of other political parties have also come to Pokhara along with the PM.

POKHARA, Dec 21: Pokhara International Airport will be officially operational from January 1. As a part of the preparation for the same, the private sector airlines, ATR-72 aircrafts belonging to Buddha Air and Yeti Airlines landed at Pokhara International Airport for the first time on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, April 17: The newly-constructed Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) is set to see the start of domestic flights to and from the airport on the new runway from April 21. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has started preparations to start operations of the airport under the directive of Minister for Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation Prem Bahadur Ale Magar.

Although the international airport is ready for operation if we consider the development of physical infrastructures, the operation of the airport is still uncertain as some of the critical issues related to this are not yet resolved.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Bahadur Ale has said that Pokhara International Airport will be operational within eight month.

Under-construction Pokhara Int’l Airport in photos

CHIPLEDHUNGA, March 3: Tourism entrepreneurs in Pokhara have demanded that the under-construction Pokhara International Airport be named after late Civil Aviation Minister Rabindra Adhikari.

POKHARA, Dec 14: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari has claimed that the construction of Pokhara International Airport would be completed before the stipulated date.