The China-Nepal cooperative airline company will make its inaugural flight inApril. according to the Himalaya Airlines Co., Ltd.

In 2014, Nepal Airlines started to use China made planes, and upon this the China-Nepal airline company was formed. Himalaya Airlines plans to use three A320 airplanes during the initial period, and within five years achieve a scale in which 15 planes service, therein start providing flights to Southeast Asia, South Asia as well as Europe via Kathmandu transfers and connecting flights to Lhasa. 

This will bring into existence fast international channels out of Tibet, extremely convenient for the international trade movements as well as personnel exchanges between these regions and Tibet. It will also expedite the establishment of Tibet as an international travel destination, and lend a shoulder in Tibet’s outward economic development.

A related delegate from the Tibet Airlines Co., Ltd stated that,the establishment of Himalaya Airlines, validates increasingly close economic exchange and cooperation between China and Nepal, and it also makes us one step closer to connecting with South Asia by establishing an air channel for the western region of China, it will link in a circular manner pilgrimage trips from South Asia to Kathmandu to Lhasa and Ali, as well as on the domestic side from Lhasa to Lumbini and so on. It will promote cultural exchange between China and Nepal, deepen the sense of friendship between the two countries peoples and furthermore expand the influence of Tibetan culture in South Asian regions.”