The Nepal Experience 1 – Royal Nepal Airlines

Well my Nepal experience started even before I came to Nepal!!! I was scheduled to fly by Royal Nepal airlines, the local carrier to get the feel of Nepal, and my fight was scheduled at 1915. I was there in the airport from morning and was killing time o\in one of the restaurants in the airport before I went inside the airport 3 hours before.

The whole time I was in the airport the display boards and TV’s said the flight was on time. When I went in it said RA flight passengers to check in at row 4. I went to Row 4 and they were painting the area and there a sigh which read under maintenance, sorry for the inconvenience. I thought they would finish it, but it was going on an on and on… I asked the people at the airport and no body had clue about the departure of the flight!!!

Finally one sardar (never knew Sardar’s knew so much) said that the flight might have been cancelled and asked me to check with the RA office. I was so pissed as it was just 2 hours before the departure…

When we went to the RA office the guys there asked “do you have a ticket?” I was feeling so dumb as we were the only 2 passengers to fly that day… I showed him the ticket and then I was like, Sir, couldn’t you at least display that the flight is cancelled, he was like “we forget” Then he started calling the local airport authorities and started saying “obur Plight canchel” (its not typo, it’s the accent)

The he made arrangements to fly another local carries, Cosmic Air… Lousy flight, they might have used it in the second world war, We were in the runway, no jokes, for about 1 hour 15 mins to take off… the Nepali pilot would have said 15 time “ thish ish Captain Sharavanu and the plight ish taking op”

Atlast I reached Kathmandu, a deserted airport…

Keeping watching for more experiences…