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Nepalese Airline Files To Bhutan
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 23, 2010: an airplane belonging to the Nepalese airline called Buddha Airline has touched down at Paro airport in Bhutan today breaking the 29-year monopoly of the Bhutan-state-run Drukair on the commercial aviation industry. Currently, it will operate four flights a week, and plans to make it daily. It charges US$ 190 one-way from Nepal, Kuenselonline.com reports.
Bhutan Government has signed bilateral air services with countries such as Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand; however, Nepalese Buddha Air is the first airline to operate flights to Bhutan, as commercial airlines of other countries have not found it commercially viable to operate flights to Bhutan; and currently, the Bhutan government has been holding talks with Hong Kong and Singapore to run air flights to Bhutan, Kuenselonline.com reports.
Thus, Bhutan is opening to the world. It certainly put the Bhutanese monarch at risk even though it has successfully expelled thousands of its people seeking some sorts of rights to live as humans.
