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TIA Running Short of Parking Bays

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TIA Running Short of Parking Bays
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August 14: Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), the country’s one and only international airport, is currently facing shortage of parking space for aircraft. The airport has only nine parking bays at the international section. Four out of nine such bays are usually occupied by the aircraft belonging to Nepal Airlines and Himalaya Airlines. This has caused congestion in the airport by limiting the parking space for  international flights to only five parking bays. This has ultimately affected the overall  operation of the airport.

According to Prem Nath Thakur, spokesperson of Tirbhuvan International Airport, 31 airlines are currently performing 89 to 100 international flights to and from the TIA despite the limited parking space.  The lack of adequate international parking bays has raised challenges to perform flight operation for the airport.

Thakur informed New Business Age that the two recently procured wide-body Airbus A330as well as  the narrow-body Airbus A320 along with Boeing 757aircaft belonging  Nepal Airlines and three Airbus A 320 narrow-body aircraft of Himalaya Airlines are usually parked at the airport.

Spokesperson Thakur says that the airport has informed the airlines that their parked aircraft have caused difficulties in day-to-day operation of the airport due to lack of parking space. We are cooperating with Nepal Airlines to help them operate the aircraft and have requested Himalaya Airlines to operate the parked aircraft. We have informed the airline companies about the urgency to not hold their aircraft and free the parking bays.

According to a source, the airport officials have even requested Himalaya Airlines to return back its aircraft if it has no destination to operate its aircraft and NAC has been requested to provide its flight schedules.

Meanwhile, the runway develops cracks on a daily basis due to the absence of quality maintenance work at the airport, informed sources told NBA. The airport authorities fill the cracks temporarily and run the airport with quick maintenance work. Civil Engineering Department  of TIA has formed a quick response maintenance team to come with a quick solution to overcome the cracks on the runway.

The domestic parking bay section of the airport too has been congested with the increasing number of aircraft procured by the domestic airlines operators.

 

                                                        

 

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