KTM Kathmandu

How deep the KTM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KTM. This reads the same 35 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 21of the 35 destinations are flown by one airline
• 13destinations run less than once a day
• 9destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40%of the destinations name Nepal Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KTM

26 airlines appear on the KTM board and they do not hold it evenly. Nepal Airlines is on 14 of the 35 destinations, 40 per cent of them, and on 6 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 34.3 of the 100.6 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Shree Airlines on 6 destinations. 22 of the 26 airlines at KTM appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at KTM: one airline on 40 per cent of the destinations and the other 60 per cent spread across 25 airlines. A cancellation inside the Nepal Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 21 destinations Nepal Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the KTM board is daily

Of the 35 destinations, 22 are flown at least once a day and 13 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the KTM board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: KTM to Taplejung (TPJ) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 47.4 of the 100.6 departures a day, 47.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 30 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at KTM usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bhojpur BHP	Nepal	Nepal Airlines	2	178	plan this
Dang DNP	Nepal	Nepal Airlines	2	305	plan this
Phaplu PPL	Nepal	Nepal Airlines	2	122	plan this
Seoul ICN	South Korea	Korean Air	2	3,966	the pair page
Shenzhen SZX	China	Himalaya Airlines	2	2,911	the pair page
Taplejung TPJ	Nepal	Nepal Airlines	2	234	plan this
Bangalore BLR	India	Nepal Airlines	3	1,797	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	SriLankan Airlines	4	2,353	plan this
Kunming KMG	China	China Eastern Airlines	4	1,772	the pair page
Tokyo NRT	Japan	Nepal Airlines	4	5,213	the pair page

The ten destinations out of KTM where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 2 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from KTM

The desk holds the return direction for 20 of the 35 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 20 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through KTM is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at KTM

KTM keeps Asia/Kathmandu time, one and three quarters hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 10:45 at KTM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven and a quarter hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at KTM and still make a departure the same day.

The night at KTM

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from KTM that lands inside it leaves around 12:58, on a modelled block of 6h 47m. Those one departure times out of KTM are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where KTM turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Nepal country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 18 airport pair pages that start or end at KTM, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Kathmandu to New Delhi (DEL), Kathmandu to Dubai (DXB) and Kathmandu to Doha (DOH).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Sharjah to Kathmandu. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at KTM written out.

Two courier postings name KTM as the airport a courier here flies from: Kathmandu and Bharatpur.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KTM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 35 destinations above.