{"id":124379,"date":"2024-09-11T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kathmandu-airport-nepal-challenges-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:00:12","slug":"kathmandu-why-is-nepals-main-airport-so-difficult-to-fly-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=124379","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu: Why Is Nepal&#8217;s Main Airport So Difficult To Fly Into?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"34906\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nepal\/\"  >Nepal<\/a><\/span>                                         is famous for being a Himalayan hiking paradise and is a favorite of mountaineers (it is home to Mount Everest). However, its main airport,                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"266036\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/kathmandu\/\"  >Kathmandu Airport<\/a><\/span>                                         (officially Tribhuvan International Airport), is known for being difficult to fly out of. While the airport may not be to blame, in July 2024, a                                 <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029831\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/18-killed-in-saurya-airlines-crash-takeoff-kathmandu\/\" >Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200ER crashed<\/a><\/span>                                         shortly after takeoff at Kathmandu Airport, killing 18 (all but one occupant).                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu&#8217;s airport is famous for being one of the world&#8217;s most difficult airports, thanks to a range of contributing factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,397,231,5819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-analysis","category-asia","category-kathmandu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124380,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379\/revisions\/124380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}