If you want to climb Mt. Everest, you may very well find yourself flying into Lukla Airport. This is not what anyone would consider a good thing. The airport is widely considered the most dangerous in ...

Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. (Getty) Lukla Airport, known officially as Tenzing Hillary Airport ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal – More than 140 international tourists have been stranded at Tenzing-Hillary airport, Lukla, the only airport for Everest region in Nepal, for more than six days. KATHMANDU, Nepal – ...

Not just any aircraft can overcome the unique challenges that the Tenzing Hillary Airport, also referred to as the Lukla Airport, presents. Known as the one of the essential destinations along the way ...

As a point of entry and exit for a country, airports serve a vital function for passengers and travelers. Alongside people, airports also facilitate the movement of international cargo, which includes ...

Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days on end for flights out. After having descended from ...

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Flights to and from the Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, considered the gateway to Mount Everest, remain shut for the past three days due to adverse weather conditions. It has been raining ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal has asked foreign airlines not to land heavily-loaded wide-body aircraft at the Himalayan nation's international airport, aviation authorities said on Friday, after ...

HIMALAYAN AIRLIFT: A Qatar Airways Airbus330 takes off from Kathmandu on Saturday with European tourists stranded after Nepal’s COVID-19 lockdown. Photo: MANISH PAUDEL Five days after Nepal went into ...

Tourism stakeholders in Manthali of Ramechhap district have urged the government to commit to operate regular flights in Manthali-Lukla route. As the government has diverted Lukla flights from ...