{"id":537344,"date":"2022-11-21T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T04:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537344"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:29:37","slug":"nepal-airlines-to-sell-five-troublesome-chinese-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-airlines-to-sell-five-troublesome-chinese-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Airlines to sell five troublesome Chinese planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal Airlines has decided to sell five of its troublesome Chinese planes after no one came forward to lease them from the loss-making national carrier despite a deadline extension, according to a media report on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>While the Finance Ministry of Nepal is the owner of the Chinese planes, the state-owned Nepal Airlines is the operator.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by breakdowns and lack of pilots, the three 17-seater Y12e aircraft and two 56-seater MA60 aircraft have turned into \u201cthe most expensive white elephants in the carrier\u2019s history\u201d right after they arrived, officials were quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal Airlines has decided to sell five of its troublesome Chinese planes after no one came forward to lease them from the loss-making national carrier despite a deadline extension, according to a media report on Saturday. While the Finance Ministry of Nepal is the owner of the Chinese planes, the state-owned Nepal Airlines is the operator. Plagued by breakdowns and lack of pilots, the three 17-seater Y12e aircraft and two 56-seater MA60 aircraft have turned into \u201cthe most expensive white elephants in the carrier\u2019s history\u201d right after they arrived, officials were quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}