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One bottleneck airport and one two-week festival shape the whole month — know which part of October you're aiming for and the risk mostly disappears.
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Direct answer: if you want to fly into Lukla in the first half of October, you needed to have booked weeks ago — but October as a whole is not closed to new bookings. The crunch is narrower than it looks: one bottleneck airport, one two-week festival that…
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