The two new Bombardier Dash 8 Q 400 aircraft of Shree Airlines that the carrier purchased recently have undergone a fresh livery paint and is in final preparation of making commercial flights in the sky of Nepal. The carrier expects the new aircraft to fly in sky of Nepal within this week.
The two new aircrafts for Shree Airlines had landed a couple of weeks before on March 26. The aircraft had flew all the way from Portland. The aircraft was being flown under command of Capt. Ritesh Karn and Capt. Biraj Rajbansi in a ferry flight to Kathmandu all the way fro the USA.
Shree Airlines has two CRJ-200, two CRJ-700, and six Q-400 Turboprop aircraft after the addition of 2 more aircraft. Shree will be operating altogether 10 fixed wing aircrafts and a total of 18 fleet size including helicopters.
The company took delivery of 4 Canadian-made Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft with 80-seat capacity, two in 2019 and two more in 2022. Before that, it introduced 50 and 70 seater CRJ aircraft for domestic flights after Saurya Airlines.
The Pilots flew these two new aircraft all the way from Portland to Tribhuvan International Airport on Tuesday, 26th of March. The aircraft was being flown under command of Capt. Ritesh Karn and Capt. Biraj Rajbansi.
‘9N-AOK’ and ‘9N-AOL’, the two new aircraft of Shree, were delivered by Manufacturer to Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines (previous operator) in June 2011 and March 2011 respectively. Therefore, both the aircraft are in the verse of completing 13 years of service this year.
