KATHMANDU, APR 25 -
Domestic airlines will resume full-fledged service from Monday as routine maintenance of radar equipment at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has been completed.

The maintenance work started on April 8. TIA general manager Dinesh Shrestha said that it was completed on Friday.

Due to the maintenance work on the radar, 40 percent of chartered and regular flights had to cut their frequency for more than 15 days. Yeti Airlines manager Binay Shakya said that TIA had allowed them

to operate at full swing, however, because of low bookings, they have not gone into full service. 

The radar at TIA was manufactured by Japan´s Toshiba Company in 1998, and it was installed under a grant assistance from the Japanese government.

The maintenance work on the radar was done after 12 years, whereas it should have been done every seven years. The repairs cost Rs 42.5 million.

Posted on: 2010-04-26 07:20

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