Feasibility of BA flying to KTM
Feb 4, 2019, 6:37 am
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It’s exactly why BA are in talks with Airbus ....
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Feb 10, 2019, 8:27 am
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One of the major reasons to fly to KTM, besides visiting a fascinating country and collecting TPs/miles, can also be satisfied by hopping over to AMS 
Feb 10, 2019, 8:59 am
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Well, it would be conceivable that at one point "BA" might flight there in the form of a local codeshare enabling full BA coded one stop trip to/from KTM. In terms of flying their own metal, quite frankly, if you think that BA can't find enough custom to fly to the likes of CGK and SGN and have only just started to fly to Pakistan, Nepal will be way, way down their list of priorities for future expansion.
Feb 10, 2019, 9:07 am
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Also the problem of Heathrow slots, even if there is enough demand to KTM to make it profitable, for BA to fly it, it will also need to be the most profitable use of the slots compared to anywhere else that wants a flight or more frequencies. Unlikely on both counts.
Feb 10, 2019, 9:53 am
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I am looking at booking flights to Nepal; having visited a few years ago I am aware that KTM is a very small airport, however, I was wondering why BA don't (and as far as I can tell have never done) fly here. I can't imagine it is an aircraft operating limitation as QR and TK both fly A330s there, is it just that there isn't any reasonable demand to fly direct from Europe?
Feb 10, 2019, 1:11 pm
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Feb 10, 2019, 1:46 pm
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Feb 10, 2019, 3:29 pm
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Feb 11, 2019, 12:48 am
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Austrian used to fly this route from Vienna and discontinued it about 10 years ago. Don't think there's enough demand (business traffic) for a direct flight. I found QR from LHR via DOH pretty seamless (with 3 or so flights a day from DOH to KTM).
Feb 12, 2019, 3:19 am
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Lots of low-paid migrant workers fill the economy cabin, but it's not so dense in business, as reported elsewhere
Feb 12, 2019, 3:23 am
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Having flown this route a lot: No, definitely not! DEL is pretty awful for connections (despite the recent update), much better to go on Qatar and change in a decent airport.