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Goma Air to Add New Airplane

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Goma Air to Add New Airplane
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September 25: Goma Air is adding an 18-seater LET airplane. Providing air services to the rural parts of Mid-western region, the airliner is adding the new plane in its fleet observing the demand of its passengers. The airline which is operating from hubs at Surkhet and Nepalgunj is buying the new aircraft at Rs 340 million.

According to the company, it is purchasing the LET-410 UVP-E-20 plane from Aircraft Industries of Czech Republic. The plane will be landing on the third week of December this year in Kathmandu. Meanwhile, a purchase agreement has signed between Manoj Karki, Managing Director of Goma Air and Robert Erhart, Commercial Director of Aircraft Industries.  With the addition, Goma Air will have three airplane of same type. “We are the only company in South Asia to fly the aircraft of this type,” claims the company.

The airplane will arrive in Kathmandu in five days crossing a route of Czech Republic, Greece, Saudi Arabia and Oman. On a commercial flight, the aircraft can fly with the capacity of 1,800 kilogramme cargo and passengers. The aircraft is capable of making flights on minus 50 degree in minimum and 50 degree in maximum temperature. After the addition of this airplane, Goma Air which is making its third hub at Pokhara will start flights to Jomsom and Manang.

Compared to Dornier and Twin Otter planes that are flying over the Nepali skies, the aircraft can make flights on Instrument Fight Rule (IFR). Similarly, the airplane can fly on a height of 14,000 feet from sea level and can land on the height of same level. “The 1050 liter fuel capacity airplane can make continuous flight for three hours,” informs the company. Likewise the company already started providing training to the pilots to fly the Let airplane.    

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