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Himalaya Airlines, a Nepal-China joint venture airline, is an international scheduled full-service premium carrier of Nepal. The Airline was established in August 2014 and has started its scheduled flights operation from May 31st 2016 flying directly to Doha, Qatar. The Airline has planned services to more destinations including Delhi, Beijing, Lhasa, Chengdu, Colombo, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Dammam in the near future.The airline had welcomed its first new aircraft MSN 6626, Airbus 320-214, Nepal registration number 9N-ALM, on March 9, 2016 at 14:25 NST. This aircraft carried the Right Honorable Prime Minister, Mr. K.P. Oli, Madam Radhika Shakya and the delegation on an official visit to Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China at 11:00 NST on March 20, 2016. The aircraft also flew to Colombo, Sri Lanka (non-scheduled/Charter) offering a promotional package of round trip on April 12th 2016 and May 3rd 2016.Over the coming five years, the airline aims at acquiring 15 Airbus 320 family aircrafts and will operate from Kathmandu to various cities in Asia and beyond. The company will introduce long haul wide body aircraft of A330 family in due course of time for the operation of direct flights to Japan, Korea, Europe, Australia, and America.Tibet Airlines holds 48.99%of equity capital of the company, whereas the Nepalese side holds 51.01%.