Tourism Secretary instructs NAC to make a clear 'business plan' before buying  new aircrafts

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Suresh Adhikari, secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, has instructed the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) to prepare a clear business plan before buying an aircraft.

Speaking at a program organized to welcome the new tourism minister, Sudan Kirati, on Monday, the tourism secretary instructed the state-owned NAC to make a clear business plan before purchasing more aircraft.

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He asked the corporation to make a clear business plan for the purchase of aircraft.

Adhikari further said that the wide-body aircraft of NAC is not getting business and added  that the ability to identify flights to new destinations for the Airbus 330 wide-body aircraft should be developed.

He said that the NAC could not cope with the demand for flights from the remote and mountainous areas of Nepal.