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Kathmandu Sunday September 24, 2000 Aswin 08, 2057.
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Irregular flights cause
distress
By a Post Reporter
JUMLA, Sept 23 - Many passengers are hit
hard to reach their destinations in the western hilly districts for the coming Dashain
following the irregularity of RNAC flights.
People are thronging to different airline
offices in Nepalgunj and Surkhet airports to buy tickets. The flights of RNAC for Rukum,
Chaurjahari, Humla, Dolpa, Bajura, Bajhang and Saphe Bagar are limited only to their
schedule and they do not operate at the time mentioned in their schedule. Many passengers
have been short of cash due to irregularity in flight.
According to RNAC, the flights from
Nepalgunj to remote hilly districts declined by 75 percent this year as compared to those
of the last year.
Due to the irregularity in RNAC flights,
passengers have been forced to buy tickets from other airlines at a price three times more
than in the RNAC( RNAC Nepalgunj-Jumla ticket costs Rs 750 while other airlines charge Rs
2150). On top of exorbitant ticket fare, they were not allowed to use 15 kilogram baggage
facility by the other airlines, according to passengers.
RNAC has also not been able to provide
additional flights in Jumla-Nepalgunj sector as it had promised.
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