Last week remained hectic for NATTA Executives as they had series of meetings with Director General of Civil Aviation Authority Nepal Mr. Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, General Manager of Thai Int’l Airways and later Inspector General of Police Mr. Upendra Kanta Aryal.
The NATTA delegation led by President Mr. D.B. Limbu on last Tuesday, the 18th February, 2014, raised a number of issues relating the Nepalese Aviation Industry including the airport. The NATTA grievances included the round-the-clock operation of TIA, guarantee of security to air passengers, elimination of various types of prevailing corruption at the airport, maintenance of air-craft and guarantee of air-safety on the basis of transparent air-safety policies based on the directives of ACAO, hassle-free movement of tourist transport to and from the airport, issuance of CAAN ID to tour operators and high level NATTA Executives, fair management of passengers trolley etc. DG CAAN has assured NATTA that the authority is serious about all the grievances put up by NATTA.
Similarly, the delegation paid a courtesy call to General Manager of Thai Int’l Airways and apprised him of the constant number of arrivals from Thai tourists over the years and suggested him to speak in favor of Nepal tourism to friendly people of Thailand.
Earlier on Monday the 17th February, NATTA delegates met the Inspecto0r General of Police at his office in Nepal Police Headquarter and apprised him of the atmosphere of lawlessness created by transport syndicates in the western region of the country including Jomsom, and several other places in Dhaulagiri region. In reply, IGP Aryal said that he was fully aware of the hooliganism of those transport operators in Mustang as he had already worked in that region as DIG. So, he was immediately going to take action against those disturbing the movement of tourist buses and vehicles. He said that Police Force will never create any hassle shooting action when they are in move.
