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Tribhuvan International Airport (IATA: KTM, ICAO: VNKT) is an International airport situated in Kathmandu, Nepal.

It is the sole international airport in Nepal. Austrian Airlines was the only European airline to serve the airport in the recent past, a seasonal service to cater for the tourist season, and the service terminated April 2007, leaving Kathmandu with no direct European service.

There are two terminals, one domestic and one international, the domestic is on the left side as you enter. Facilities in both are limited to a few shops and cafes. In the international terminal there are several duty free shops. Thai Air run the business class lounge, offering newspapers and snacks. The international terminal shows off a brick facing and is very dimly lit. An extension was made to the international terminal to make the distance to the airplanes shorter.

The airport is about 6 kilometers from the city centre in the Kathmandu valley.

Domestic

• Agni Air (Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Jumla, Nepalgunj)
• Buddha Air (Bhadrapur, Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Janakpur, Pokhara, Simara)
• Cosmic Air (Bhairawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Nepalganj, Pokhara, Simara, Tumlingtar)
• Gorkha Airlines (Bhairahawa, Bharatpur, Biratnagar, Jumla, Nepalgunj)
• Nepal Airlines (Bhadrapur, Bharatpur, Bhojpur, Biratnagar, Dhangadi, Lukla, Nepalgunj, Phaplu, Pokhara, Ramechhap, Rumjatar, Simara, Surkhet, Tumlingtar)
• Yeti Airlines (Bhadrapur, Bhairawa, Bharatpur, Birantnagar, Lamidanda, Lukla, Meghauli, Nepalganj, Phaplu, Pokhara, Rumjatar, Simara)

Charter flights are available from Yeti Airlines. Buddha Air, Cosmic Air, Nepal Airlines and Yeti Airlins fly mountain flights.

International

• Air Arabia (Sharjah)
• Air China (Beijing, Lhasa)
• Air Sahara (Delhi)
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Dhaka)
• China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
• Cosmic Air (Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi)
• Cathay Pacific
  • Dragonair (Hong Kong)
• Druk Air (Delhi, Paro)
• Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
• GMG Airlines (Dhaka)
• Gulf Air (Bahrain)
• Hong Kong Express Airways (Hong Kong)
• Indian Airlines (Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi)
• Jet Airways (Delhi)
• Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
• Nepal Airlines (Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Osaka-Kansai, Shanghai-Pudong)
• Orient Thai Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi [1]
• Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi)
• Qatar Airways (Doha)
• Singapore Airlines
  • SilkAir (Singapore)
• Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

• Aeroflot (Moscow)
• Air Nepal International (defunct 2006) (Bangkok, Doha, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna, April 2007)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Karachi)
• Necon Air (defunct 2003) (Patna, Varanasi)
• Singapore Airlines (Dhaka, Singapore, May 2002)
• Transavia (Amsterdam)
• Martinair (Amsterdam, February 2006)

• Thai Airways International Flight 311 - July 31, 1992
• PIA Flight 268 - September 28, 1992

• 17 January 1995 - Royal Nepal Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (9N-ABI), flight RA133 from Kathmandu to Rumjatar, had problems getting airborne at Tribhuvan International Airport, struck the airfield perimeter fence and plunged into fields. Of three crew and 21 passengers, one crew member and one passenger were killed. ^[1]

• 5 September 1999 - Necon Air Flight 128 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, an BAe 748-501 Super 2B (9N-AEG), collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area 25km west of Kathmandu, while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport. All 10 passengers and 5 crew were killed. ^[2]

• Tribhuvan International Airport
• Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
• Destinations from Kathmandu
• Airport information for VNKT at World Aero Data

1. ^ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 18 November 2006
2. ^ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 18 November 2006

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