Himalaya Airlines, a Nepal-China joint venture international airline, launched their service connecting Kathmandu to Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan province on November 20. As the airlines company is exploring new markets before the onset of VNY 2020, it aims at promoting and capturing the outbound tourism potential of the province into Nepal. With the new service, Nepalis will have a convenient, economical and direct connection to explore this new destination in China.
Right after Guiyang, Himalaya introduced their newest flight route between Kathmandu and Changsha. Attracting numerous tourists towards the city every year, Changsha is one of the major tourist cities of the country.
Himalaya flies every Wednesday from Kathmandu to Changsha and back; Himalaya is the only airline operating direct flights between the two cities.
The maiden flight departed from Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) at local time 11:03am on November 20 and touched down Changsha Huanghua International Airport (CSX) at local time 5:19pm. The return flight departed from CSX at local time 6:28pm and touched down TIA at 9:23pm local time on the same day.
“Apart from Beijing and Guiyang, we believe Kathmandu needs more connectivity to other cities of China; in order to take optimum advantage of China’s travel potential. We are very happy to add yet another route in China to strengthen the Nepal-China connectivity. With these newly added routes, we are deepening our trans-border network by providing key links for business and leisure travellers of both China and Nepal,” said Vijay Shrestha, Vice President- Administration of Himalaya Airlines.
