Posted by: Amazing January 29, 2009
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RNAC to buy 6 new aircraft
 
Kuber Chalise
Kathmandu, January 25:

The
ailing national flag-carrier is planning to buy a fleet of six aircraft
over next five years. Nepal Airlines Corporation plans to acquire first
of the six planes in the next 18 months.
Sugat Ratna Kansakar, NAC managing director, said, “Within five years we will have a fleet of six new aircraft,” he added.
In the late 80s, the NAC (then RNAC) had acquired two Boeing 757 — Karnali in 1987 and Gandaki in 1988.
After
people’s movement in 1990, successive governments of Nepali Congress
and Communist Party of Nepal (UML) had leased aircraft from Lauda
Airlines and China South Western Airlines.
But the government has decided to buy new aircraft.
“We’ll buy aircraft from Boeing or Airbus,” Kansakar said.
Talks with the representatives of both the global aircraft manufacturers are on.

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