THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Nepal

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

NEPAL DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Kathmandu Tribhuvan (KTM)

518

15,596

49.3 %

9.4 %

2

Biratnagar (BIR)

108

3,855

12.2 %

7.1 %

3

Pokhara (PKR)

98

3,318

10.5 %

11.0 %

4

Lukla (LUA)

97

1,829

5.8 %

0.0 %

5

Bhairawa (BWA)

35

1,393

4.4 %

61.8 %

6

Nepalganj (KEP)

31

1,121

3.5 %

0.0 %

7

Bhadrapur (BDP)

28

1,064

3.4 %

0.0 %

8

Bharatpur (BHR)

28

924

2.9 %

9.1 %

9

Simara (SIF)

49

882

2.8 %

16.7 %

10

Janakpur (JKR)

21

581

1.8 %

15.3 %

(Others)

49

1,103

3.5 %

(-15.2) %

TOTAL

1,062

31,666

-

8.7 %

HOME AIRPORT: NEPAL INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Kathmandu Tribhuvan (KTM)

228

39,785

100.0 %

(-7.8) %

(Others)

-

-

-

TOTAL

228

39,785

-

(-7.8) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: NEPAL INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Delhi Indira Gandhi International (DEL)

48

7,861

19.8 %

(-30.0) %

2

Doha International (DOH)

31

4,763

12.0 %

3.3 %

3

Hong Kong International (HKG)

10

2,670

6.7 %

50.8 %

4

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)

9

2,543

6.4 %

(-7.0) %

5

Kuala Lumpur International (KUL)

11

2,374

6.0 %

108.2 %

6

Bahrain International (BAH)

14

2,299

5.8 %

28.4 %

7

Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International (DAC)

12

2,275

5.7 %

(-25.3) %

8

Sharjah International (SHJ)

14

2,268

5.7 %

0.0 %

9

Dubai International (DXB)

10

1,890

4.8 %

(-56.6) %

10

Abu Dhabi International (AUH)

7

1,834

4.6 %

0.0 %

(Others)

62

9,008

22.6 %

7.5 %

TOTAL

228

39,785

-

(-7.8) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…