Pokhara Airport

Pokhara Airport
IATA: PKRICAO: VNPK
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)
Serves Pokhara, Nepal
Elevation AMSL 2,712 ft / 827 m
Coordinates Coordinates: 28°12′03″N 083°58′55″E / 28.20083°N 83.98194°E / 28.20083; 83.98194
Map
PKR

Location of airport in Nepal

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 1,433 4,701 Asphalt
Sources: CAAN [1] and DAFIF [2][3]

Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK), is a regional airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. The airport was established on 4 July 1958 and is operated by the government (Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal). It offers regular connections to Kathmandu and Jomsom; and seasonal connections to Manang. Following a new agreement on air travel between India and Nepal,[4] Pokhara is to be the site of Nepal's second international airport. Construction started in the southeast of Pokhara in 2009 but is only progressing slowly.[5] In 2011 Buddha Air, a Nepali private airline, began international flights from Pokhara to Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, India,[6] and has announced plans to fly to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in the future.[7]

The apron of the airport is tiny and can only handle 8 small propeller planes at a time. Pokhara Airport is a diversion airport for the main airport KTM in times of problems such as fog. Due to a short runway and crowded apron, flights must often be re-diverted to third airports with even shorter runways.[8]

The airport is capable of handling aircraft from the Nepalese Army Air Service.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Buddha Air Kathmandu [9]
Gorkha Airlines Jomsom, Kathmandu
Nepal Airlines Jomsom, Kathmandu, Manang [10]
Sita Air Jomsom, Kathmandu [11]
Simrik Airlines Kathmandu [12]
Tara Air Jomsom, Kathmandu [13]
Yeti Airlines Kathmandu [14]

Incidents and accidents

See also

List of airports in Nepal

References

  1. Pokhara Airport at Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, accessed 4 March 2011
  2. Airport information for VNPK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  3. Airport information for PKR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. "International Pokhara: Buddha Air eyes Indian tourism and pilgrim market", Nepali Times issue #274, 30 October 2010, accessed 4 March 2011.
  5. "Construction of international airport in Nepal's Pokhara inaugurated", Xinhuanet, 9 December 2009, accessed 4 March 2011.
  6. "Buddha Air Lucknow flight", buddhaair.com, accessed 28 September 2012.
  7. "Buddha Air plans to start Pokhara-New Delhi flight", "Tour Nepal", accessed 28 September 2012.
  8. http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=71653
  9. "Flight Schedule". Buddha Air. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  10. "Schedule Effective from 15 May 2010 to 30 October 2010". Nepal Airlines. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  11. "Destinations". Sita Air. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  12. "gunaairlines.com". Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  13. "Flight Schedule". Tara Air. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  14. "Scheduled flights". Yeti Airlines. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  15. Aviation Safety Network retrieved 18 November 2006
  16. Aviation Safety Network retrieved 19 November 2006

Pokhara daily flight scheduled

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