Country profile

Air travel in Nepal

Every airport and active airline registered in Nepal, ranked by scheduled-route activity. Use this page to find the country's main hubs, see which carriers run the domestic network, and click through to route detail.

32Airports
3Active airlines
53Departures on file

Nepal is one slice of a global network covering 6,071 airports across 235 countries. The OpenFlights dataset puts 32 airports inside this country with valid IATA codes, served by 3 active airlines registered locally. Together those airports show 53 distinct scheduled departures in the routes table. That figure is a rough proxy for how well-connected the country's airports are, even though it's not a literal count of flights.

Airports below are sorted by scheduled-route volume, so the country's main hubs sit at the top. Smaller regional airports follow, including the seasonal-only and domestic-only fields. Each row links through to a dedicated airport page with destinations served and the airlines operating there.

Airports in Nepal

Showing 32 of 32 airports, ranked by departures on file.

Airports and airlines in this country
IATAAirportCityDepartures
KTM Tribhuvan International Airport Kathmandu 44
BWA Gautam Buddha Airport Bhairawa 1
JKR Janakpur Airport Janakpur 1
PKR Pokhara Airport Pokhara 1
BIR Biratnagar Airport Biratnagar 1
TMI Tumling Tar Airport Tumling Tar 1
DHI Dhangarhi Airport Dhangarhi 1
BHR Bharatpur Airport Bharatpur 1
BDP Bhadrapur Airport Chandragarhi 1
KEP Nepalgunj Airport Nepalgunj 1
SIF Simara Airport Simara 0
LUA Lukla Airport Lukla 0
BHP Bhojpur Airport Bhojpur 0
LDN Lamidanda Airport Lamidanda 0
JMO Jomsom Airport Jomsom 0
NGX Manang Airport Manang 0
PPL Phaplu Airport Phaplu 0
RUM Rumjatar Airport Rumjatar 0
DNP Tulsipur Airport Dang 0
RUK Rukum Chaurjahari Airport Rukumkot 0
JUM Jumla Airport Jumla 0
TPJ Taplejung Airport Taplejung 0
SKH Surkhet Airport Surkhet 0
IMK Simikot Airport Simikot 0
DOP Dolpa Airport Dolpa 0
BJH Bajhang Airport Bajhang 0
MEY Meghauli Airport Meghauli 0
RHP Ramechhap Airport Ramechhap 0
SYH Syangboche Airport Syangboche 0
BJU Bajura Airport Bajura 0
BGL Baglung Airport Baglung 0
RJB Rajbiraj Airport Rajbiraj 0

Airlines based in Nepal

Active carriers with a two-letter IATA code registered in this country.

Airports and airlines in this country (section 2)
IATAAirlineCallsign
RA Royal Nepal Airlines ROYAL NEPAL
YT Yeti Airways
HC Himalayan Airlines Himalayan

Reading this page

The departures column counts the number of distinct routes filed in the OpenFlights schedule from each airport. A hub with hundreds of departures is a major connecting point; a regional field with a single-digit count typically supports a small number of feeder flights to the nearest hub. The list does not weight routes by frequency or seat capacity, so two airports with similar departure counts can carry very different passenger volumes in practice.

For the most current operational picture, cross-reference an airport page with the airline's own website. The underlying dataset is community-maintained and reflects scheduled-route relationships rather than a live timetable.

Country pages on AeroRoute Guide are short on purpose. They answer one travel-planning question: which airports and carriers are worth knowing in Nepal. If you're routing a trip, start at the top of the airports table and work down. If you're researching a specific airline, jump from the airlines table to the carrier profile for its full destination map. Cross-links between countries, hubs, and routes mean a single click usually moves you from a high-level overview into operational detail. When the data shows zero registered carriers, the country isn't unreachable. It almost always means scheduled service comes from foreign airlines based elsewhere, and those flights show up on the relevant airport pages.