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Earthquake Affected Mountain Flights in Nepal: Slow Recovery is Anticipated

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Mountain Flight was one of the most popular adventurous activities in Nepal. Everyday thousands of foreign tourists would enjoy the views of mighty Himalayas flying above the sky.

Unfortunately, after April 25th devastating earthquake the number of mountain flights has been drastically decreased. Only few mountain flights are running currently, after an earthquake only 7 flights have took off.

Prajwal Thapa, Marketing officer of Simrik Airlines said that, “Mountain flight is like closed due to no foreigners after earthquake”. Till now only four flights have took off for mountain flight.

In the end of spring peak tourism season, Simrik, Yeti and Buddha Air would daily run 3 to 4 mountain flights. But after an earthquake Buddha has 2, Yeti 1 and Simrik has run 4 mountain flights according to Rupesh Joshi from Buddha Air.

Majority of Mountain Flight’s Customers are foreign nationals. Around 80 percentages of passengers are from third country and 20 percent would be Indian. Nepalese only fly few times.

Many tourists have shortened their visit to Nepal and who were planning to visit Nepal has started to cancel their travel plans. Presently, only relief operators and journalists are here in Nepal with negligible number of tourists for visit.

Earthquake has not only affected this season but also coming autumn tourist season. Tourism officials said that booking has been cancelled till September and also the flights are been cancelled.

Airlines companies are anticipating that tourists flow will slowly increase after month of September. But this earthquake has made a huge adverse affect on tourism sector of the nation.

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