nepal airlince corporation is the flag carrier airline of Nepal. Its head office is in the Nepal Airlines Corporation(NAC) Building in Kathmandu,and its main base is Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu.
The airline was established in July 1958 as Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) to be Nepal's first airline. The airline's first aircraft was a Douglas DC-3, used to serve domestic routes and a handful of destinations in India. The airline acquired its first jet aircraft, Boeing 727s, in 1972. As of April 2016, the airline operated a fleet of nine aircraft.On 30 April 2015, Nepal Airlines received its second Airbus A320, Lumbini. The aircraft was filled with 5 tonnes of aid material to be flown from the Airbus factory in Hamburg, to Nepal on delivery of the aircraft. The aid material will be used in the relief effort for the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.In 2015, Nepal Airlines flew 253,658 travellers, up 22.87 percent compared to the previous year of 206,430 passengers.[3] Similarly, it flew 42,535 domestic air passengers in 2015, increase of 21.60% compared to previous year.Nepal Airlines has aimed to add 2 Airbus A330 aircraft and 2 Airbus A320 aircraft by 2017.
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