KATHMANDU, JUNE 17

Today, altogether 554 Nepalis stranded abroad had been repatriated home by the evening.

These people arrived home through three chartered flights.

While 156 Nepalis from Bangladesh were evacuated via a chartered flight of Himalaya Airlines, a chartered flight of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) brought 248 Nepalis from Bangkok, as per Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). Similarly, a chartered flight of Jazeera Airlines repatriated 150 stranded Nepalis from Kuwait.

Meanwhile, a chartered flight of Himalaya Airlines is bringing home 146 stranded Nepalis from Singapore at around 11:00pm, taking the total number of Nepalis repatriated today to 704, as per Rajkumar Chhetri, spokesperson for CAAN.

As per rescue flight schedule, NAC will fly to Saudi Arabia and UAE on Thursday, while Himalaya Airlines will evacuate Nepalis from Malaysia and Oman.

The national flag carrier will fly to Japan and Kuwait, while Himalaya Airlines will fly to Saudi Arabia and Nigeria on June 19.

On June 20, NAC will repatriate Nepalis from Cyprus, Malaysia and Qatar, Himalaya Airlines will repatriate passengers from UAE and Bangladesh. The foreign airlines will conduct two flights that day, of which one will be from Europe.

A version of this article appears in e-paper on June 18, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.