{"id":404332,"date":"2025-03-18T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=404332"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:05:12","slug":"first-chengdu-pokhara-chartered-flight-lands-boosting-nepals-tourism-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/03\/18\/404332.html","title":{"rendered":"First Chengdu-Pokhara regular commercial flight lands, boosting Nepal\u2019s tourism hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-404334 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"869\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/photo.png 869w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/photo-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/photo-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>March 18, Kathmandu:<\/strong> The first regular commercial chartered flight from Chengdu, China, landed at Pokhara International Airport on Tuesday morning, carrying 128 passengers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The passengers were welcomed by the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song, according to a video posted by the Chinese Embassy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Operated by Sichuan Airlines, the flight will soon depart with over 120 passengers, marking a key step for the airport\u2019s international operations. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This weekly Tuesday service, backed by the Pokhara Tourism Council and Nepal Tourism Board, supports the \u2018Visit Nepal 2025\u2019 and \u2018Pokhara Tourism Year\u2019 campaigns. Built with a $215.96 million Chinese loan and assistance, the airport has faced challenges since 2023 but aims to boost tourism, especially with 101,879 Chinese visitors in 2024. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, Kathmandu: The first regular commercial chartered flight from Chengdu, China, landed at Pokhara International Airport on Tuesday morning, carrying 128 passengers. The passengers were welcomed by the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song, according to a video posted by the Chinese Embassy. Operated by Sichuan Airlines, the flight will soon depart with over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":404334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-404332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404338,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404332\/revisions\/404338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404332"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=404332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}