Himalaya Airlines, a Nepal-China Joint Venture Airline, announces its most awaited second destination: Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka as the airline will commence its passenger services on the Kathmandu/Colombo/Kathmandu route with effect from October 1, 2016. The airline will fly its A320-214 (configured with 8 Business Class and 150 Economy class seats) on the new route.

The airline has appointed Cleopatra Travels as its General Sales Agents (GSA) for passenger and cargo for the State of Qatar, who will be responsible for the airline’s sales and marketing, market development, reservations and ticketing services representing the airline in Qatar.

11 crew members of Himalaya Airlines participated in this training where they were trained in SEP, first aid, ditching and fire drill. Apart from these, they went through a special program of leadership with Sri Lankan Army Commando team.

Himalaya Airlines officially opened its sales counter in Gairidhara. It was inaugurated by Mr. Vijay Shrestha, vice president of administration by handing over the first ticket issued for Doha to Mr. Raju KC, GM of commercial department.

Four pilots from Himalaya Airlines underwent EAFA standard training at SriLankan Airlines Training center. The trainings they received were Entry Level Training and Type Rating Training (Airbus Pilot Transition). It was a simulator based training known as Level D Full Flight Simulation where pilots experienced and go ] t the feel as good as real time flying. Apart from that they also received trainings on Airbus fly by wire family, normal operating procedure and abnormal and emergency procedures.

Himalaya Airlines has signed a long term service agreement with SriLankan Airline’s aviation integrated training academy - SriLankan Training, to receive A320 family simulator training to ab initio pilots and cabin crews.

This training program was conducted Dr. Biswas Pradhan to Cabin Crew batch regarding “Basic Life Support”. The cabin crews performed experiments on dummies and learnt about basic life support systems.

Mr. Raju Bahadur KC GM, Commercial on behalf of Himalaya Airlines and Mr. Georgy Thomas on behalf of Accelaero signed the agreement.

The agreement was signed by Mr. BK Singh, Head of Ground Operations on behalf of Himalaya Airlines and by Mr. L. Velraj, General Manager of Air India Security.