Saurya Airlines Pvt. Ltd ( ne, सौर्य एयरलाईन्स) is an airline based in

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Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

. As of August 2017, the airline serves five destinations across three provinces of

from its hub at

Tribhuvan International Airport Tribhuvan International Airport (Nepali language, Nepali: त्रिभुवन अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थल) (, colloquially referred to as TIA) is an international airport located in Kathmandu, B ...

. Saurya Airlines operates a fleet of CRJ 200 aircraft. Saurya Airlines was the first airline to introduce

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in Nepal, also becoming the second airline in Nepal after

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to operate a jet engine aircraft on the domestic routes.

History

Saurya Airlines brought its first aircraft, a CRJ 200 on 18 August 2014 and commenced its first operation on 17 November 2014 by conducting a mountain flight and a round trip to

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from

Kathmandu Airport Tribhuvan International Airport (Nepali: त्रिभुवन अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थल) (, colloquially referred to as TIA) is an international airport located in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. It ...

after it was forced to keep its new plane grounded for nearly three months due to lengthy paperwork. The company later added a daily service to Bhadrapur making it its second southeastern destination. On 22 June 2015, Saurya Airlines launched flights to

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. At the beginning of 2016, Saurya Airlines was constrained to operate charter flights as per the regulations of

Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN, ne, नेपाल नागरिक उड्डयन प्राधिकरण, translit=Nepāl Nāgarik Uḍḍayan Prādhikaraṇ) is an independent civil aviation regulator. It was establishe ...

after the company failed to meet the minimum required number of aircraft needed to operate as a scheduled passenger carrier. However, the company managed to provide the service to the passengers by operating scheduled charter flights. In 2016, Saurya Airlines served 90,205 passengers with the growth rate of 3.76 percent from the previous year. In March 2017, Saurya Airlines added second CRJ 200 aircraft to its fleet, and regained the certificate to operate scheduled flights again. This "9N-AME" aircraft was painted with a "

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livery" as per the agreement with Sipradi Trading, making the airline-first Nepalese fixed-wing aircraft company to wear the international trademark on aircraft livery. In 2018, the airline was grounded by

, as it owed Nepali rupees 30 million in service charges to the airport. In March 2019, the airline cleared its dues and restarted its flight operations. Also in 2018, the airline was sold to a group of Non Resident Nepalis for 320 million Nepali rupees. However, in 2019, the ownership changed again, when the

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n Kuber Group acquired the airline for 630 million Nepali rupees. Following this, in July 2021, first news reports surfaced claiming that the airline would rebrand itself as ''Kuber Airlines''.

Destinations

Saurya Airlines serves to these destinations as of January 2023:

Fleet

The Saurya Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of October 2020):

References

External links

* Airlines of Nepal Airlines established in 2014 2014 establishments in Nepal {{Asia-airline-stub