Flight operations at Tribhuvan International Airport were severely affected on Wednesday due to poor visibility caused by adverse weather. Airport spokesperson Santosh Kumar Basnet said visibility dropped to 1,600 meters, below the 2,200 meters required for large aircraft. An Air India flight from New Delhi was diverted to Varanasi, while a Nepal Airlines widebody aircraft from Doha remained in holding over Simara. Several domestic flights to destinations including Tumlingtar, Bharatpur, Surkhet and Rajbiraj were cancelled. Although IFR landings continued, satellite-based RNP/AR approaches were limited to select international carriers such as Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines.
