{"id":31797,"date":"2025-09-23T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31797"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:33:14","slug":"buddha-air-to-resume-direct-flights-from-kathmandu-to-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/buddha-air-to-resume-direct-flights-from-kathmandu-to-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Air to resume direct flights from Kathmandu to Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 23: Buddha Air, a private airlines company of Nepal, is set to resume direct flights to Kolkata, India.<\/p>\n<p>Buddha Air had started the Kathmandu-Kolkata-Kathmandu air service from April 2019 but had to be suspended since the break out of COVID pandemic in December the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The company is set to resume its service to Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, India, from October 2. Initially, the company plans to operate flights three days a week, on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The flight will depart from Kathmandu at 7:00 am and from Kolkata at 9:20 am local time. Operated by an ATR-72 aircraft, the flight duration of will be approximately one hour and 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The one-way fare for passengers has been fixed at Rs 13,353. This is the second international destination for Buddha Air, that operates flights to Varanasi, India on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 23: Buddha Air, a private airlines company of Nepal, is set to resume direct flights to Kolkata, India. Buddha Air had started the Kathmandu-Kolkata-Kathmandu air service from April 2019 but had to be suspended since the break out of COVID pandemic in December the same year. The company is set to resume its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31799,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions\/31799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}