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Although the government had restricted operations of domestic and worldwide flights in the wake of nationwide lockdown, the national flag provider, Nepal Airlines Corporation( NAC), has actually been carrying out chartered flights under special conditions.
According to the Corporation, a total of 22 global and 11 domestic flights have actually operated so far.
Of the overall chartered international flights, 9 were cargo flights, of which six took-off for Guangzhou while one flight each brought cargo from Changsha, Beijing and Kunming.
All of these flights were performed to bring medicines and equipment for the government to respond to Covid-19 crisis.
13 passenger flights were performed during this lockdown duration.
Amongst the guest chartered flights, six removed for Japan, three for Hong Kong, 2 flights to Australia, and one each to Bangladesh and India.
Amongst the traveler chartered flights, flights to Japan brought Nepalis working and studying in Japan.
On the other hand, other flights were repatriation flights.
Additionally, NAC has been set up to fly to Australia on June 8; and to Hong Kong on June 3, 4, and 5.
& On the basis of demand of particular embassies and the federal government, we are carrying out global and domestic flights under unique conditions.
In the coming days, we will be conducting flights based on the requirement of concerned authorities, & said Archana Khadka, Spokesperson for NAC.
Meanwhile, the domestic flights were run to collect swab
samples for Covid-19 PCR tests.
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