FLEET -Shree Airlines (Nepal) took delivery of two Q400s, serials 4532 and 4355, as part of its service expansion

 

FLEET - Shree Airlines (Nepal) will invest US$5 billion to expand flights by adding aircraft, including three Q400s from January 2023 for international flights.

A narrowbody aircraft will follow in 2024.

 

Shree Airlines to expand Dash 8-400 fleet

Shree Airlines (N9, Kathmandu) will more than double its Dash 8-400 fleet, spokesman Anil Manandhar said during the type's inaugural commercial service last week. The Nepali carrier currently has two of the type and, Manandhar told the Setopati newspaper, is now planning to add three more.

He did not disclose delivery dates or where the aircraft would come from. However, he did confirm they would be used to increase Shree's domestic Nepali network, the Kathmandu-Pokhara route in particular.

“We are preparing to add three more Dash-8 series aircraft. Thereafter we will operate five flights a day on the Kathmandu-Pokhara route,” he said. “We will submit the proposal to both the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal and the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation for permission to bring new aircraft after completing our preparations.”

Until now, Shree Airlines had operated a fleet of two CRJ200s and two CRJ700s (of which one is inactive) on flights connecting Bhadrapur, Siddharthanagar, Biratnagar, Dhangarhi, Janakpur, Nepalgunj, Pokhara, and Rajbiraj.
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Rajbiraj airport reopens after a decade

Shree Airlines (SHA, Kathmandu) operated a maiden charter flight out of the newly reopened Rajbiraj airport in south-eastern Nepal on May 24, using a CRJ-200 aircraft, following a lengthy reconstruction project of the facility, The Kathmandu Post has reported.

The airport initially opened in 1959, closed shortly afterwards, and later resumed activities for a brief time in 2007. It was now formally reopened on May 23. However, although the airport infrastructure, including a paved 1,500-metre runway, is now completed, the terminal and the air traffic control tower will only be ready for service in early June.
Although no airline has announced the launch of services to Rajbiraj, the airport authorities hope that after all the works are completed the airport will start receiving regular passenger flights.

The local authorities plan to further expand the airport, however, this initiative is currently suspended as the Nepalese Ministry of Finance refused to release funds required to purchase additional plots of land.

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