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Nepal Airlines Is Flying to Tokyo Four Times a Week This Autumn, and the Timing Is No Accident

The national carrier adds a fourth weekly Kathmandu-Narita rotation from 18 September, wide-body A330 and all, timed squarely at the Dashain-Tihar…

By Anjali Shrestha · Aug 29, 2026

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Nepal Airlines will fly its Kathmandu—Tokyo route four times a week from 18 September 2026, adding a fourth weekly rotation on one of its most important long-haul services just as the country's autumn festival and trekking season reaches its peak. The extra…

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Why the fourth flight, and why now

Autumn is when Nepal comes home. Dashain and Tihar, the two biggest festivals of the year, fall in October and early November, and the Nepali diaspora in Japan — one of the largest overseas Nepali communities — travels back in force. The revised schedule…

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Nepal is bulking up its front doors for autumn

The Tokyo boost lands in the middle of the busiest stretch of international-capacity growth Nepal has seen in years. From 23 September, flydubai begins the first-ever daily international service into Pokhara, giving Annapurna-bound trekkers a Gulf-connected…

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What this means for trekkers

What this means for you If you are flying from Japan, or connecting through Tokyo Narita from the Pacific or North America, autumn seats into Kathmandu just got easier to find — but only for a window. The extra flight is scheduled to end on 20 November, so…

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Land in the clearest, busiest trekking season of the year

These are the autumn treks we are putting people on for October and November, straight from Kathmandu: Everest Base Camp — 14 days · from US$1,850 per person Annapurna Circuit — 13 days · from US$1,400 per person Flying in around Dashain or…

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