Who protects us from monopolies? Kathmandu:India is witnessing a sea change in the way it does business. There is no more evidence of this than in the aviation sector. Whereas government owned Indian Airlines (IA) and Air India (AI) used to enjoy monopolies, this is no longer the... 13 Feb, 2006
Airport investment at record high London, January 25: Airports around the world invested a record total of $36 billion last year to pay for new runways, terminals and modern facilities to cope with steady growth in international air travel. Big projects included a new terminal for... 25 Jan, 2006
TAKING STOCK : Open the skies Rakesh Wadhwa Kathmandu: The evidence is staring us in our face.Government is inefficient. Get it out of our lives. Restrict it. Let it perform only its core functions. We will benefit greatly. Consider the opening of the skies between New Delhi and... 01 Sep, 2005
American in RID custody Kathmandu, August 15:Police today handed over Meeryn Leroy-Fiscback, the American national who was held with fake American currency at the TIA yesterday, to the Revenue Investigation Department, Pulchowk. Fiscback was held at the TIA with fake US... Horoscopes 15 Aug, 2005
LETTERS Rocky days for RNACWith intense competition in the aviation industry at both national and international levels, coming days will be even tougher for the state-owned RNAC. With the entry of national and international airlines into Nepal, RNAC needs to... 14 Aug, 2005
ONCE-OVER ANI stalls operationKATHMANDU: Air Nepal International has temporarily stalled its operation after a ground handler at the Tribhuvan International Airport caused damages to the ANI aircraft at 8.00 pm on Thursday. ANI, in a press statement issued on... Travel 13 Aug, 2005
Mega Pakistani aviation deal in the offing Karachi, August 3:A fledging Pakistani airline is set to ink one of the country’s biggest civil aviation deals by purchasing 10 Airbus aircraft for $1.25 million.Airblue, which took to the skies a year ago, is to sign the deal with Airbus Industrie... 03 Aug, 2005
UK may ban PIA flights Himalayan News ServiceIslamabad, July 10:Under pressure to check human smuggling from Pakistan, UK has threatened to ban Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights if Islamabad doesn’t urgently sign a pact to prevent the practice. Interior... Women 10 Jul, 2005
RNAC moves into profitability Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, June 30:Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC), the national flag carrier, once labelled as a‘financially bankrupt’ airlines, is slowly generating profits for the past two and half years. Despite RNAC being a... 30 Jun, 2005
RNAC Anniversary special : RNAC flies through troubled skies Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu,June 30:It has been a long, chequered road for Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC), the national flag carrier, that is completing 47 years on July 1, 2005. Following the adoption of liberal market policies by the... 30 Jun, 2005
PIA cuts air fare Lahore: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the state-run carrier, has been forced to slash its fares for US and European destinations by 15 percent because of low-fare flights offered by foreign airlines to these regions. Sources in Pakistan... 02 Jun, 2005
TAKING STOCK : Pay less, fly more Rakesh WadhwaKathmandu:The air wars continue unabated. The fight for customers on the Kathmandu – Delhi route has intensified. The battle has been carried over to the domestic routes as well. Cosmic Air started it by being the first to reduce fares... 22 May, 2005
