Pokhara Airport (domestic)
Pokhara Airport पोखरा विमानस्थल | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Nepal | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal | ||||||||||
| Serves | Pokhara, Nepal | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 2,712 ft / 827 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°12′03″N 083°58′55″E / 28.20083°N 83.98194°E | ||||||||||
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Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK) is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Following a new agreement on air travel between India and Nepal,[4] Pokhara Airport will be replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport in 2022.[5]
History
The airport was established on 4 July 1958 by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. Until the 2010s, it offered regular connections to Kathmandu and Jomsom; and seasonal connections to Manang. In 2011 Buddha Air, a Nepali private airline, began international flights from Pokhara to Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, India,[6] and has announced plans to fly to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in the future.[7] In the late 2010s, it became Nepal's second domestic hub handling flights to various provinces.[8]
Facilities
The apron of the airport is relatively small and can only handle eight propeller planes at a time. Pokhara Airport is a diversion airport for the country's main airport in Kathmandu in times of problems such as fog. Due to a short runway and crowded apron, flights must often be re-diverted to third airports with even shorter runways.[9]
Airlines and destinations
Buddha Air and Yeti Airlines provide mountain sightseeing flights or Annapurna sightseeing flights out of Pokhara Airport. They usually depart in the early morning hours and return to the airport one hour later.[21][22]
Several Ultralight aviation companies offer recreational and sightseeing flights from Pokhara Airport.[23]
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Incidents and accidents
- On 6 November 1997, a Necon Air Avro 748-100 had a hydraulic failure after landing from a flight from Kathmandu Airport. The pilot attempted to steer the plane, but it hit another stationary Hawker Siddeley HS 748. There were no fatalities among the four crew members and 44 passengers.[24]
- On 22 August 2002, a Shangri-La Air Twin Otter aircraft, on a flight from Jomsom to Pokhara, crashed into a hill that was under complete cloud cover following three days of continuous rain. All three crew and 15 passengers were killed.[25]
- On 16 February 2014, Nepal Airlines Flight 183 crashed shortly after taking off for a flight Pokhara to Jumla Airport. The crash in bad weather killed all the 18 on board.[26]
See also
References
- ^ Pokhara Airport Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, accessed 4 March 2011
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2083: attempt to index a boolean value. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for PKR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "International Pokhara: Buddha Air eyes Indian tourism and pilgrim market", Nepali Times issue #274, 30 October 2010, accessed 4 March 2011.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2083: attempt to index a boolean value.
- ^ "Buddha Air Lucknow flight" Archived 19 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine, buddhaair.com, accessed 28 September 2012.
- ^ "Buddha Air plans to start Pokhara-New Delhi flight" Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, "Tour Nepal", accessed 28 September 2012.
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- ^ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 19 November 2006
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External links
- Pokhara flights schedule
- Ultralight Flight from Pokhara Airport
- Accident history for PKR at Aviation Safety Network
