The new member of a leading domestic carrier of Nepal, Shree Airlines has arrived Nepal after a 3 days ferry flight journey and landed Kathmandu around 01:00 AM today. With this, the domestic air carrier Shree Airlines has successfully added a new Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft with registration ‘9N-AOM’ that will soon fly in the Nepali sky commercially.
The new aircraft made ferry flight to Kathmadu from Portland Airport, USA and made refueling stops at Canada, Iceland, Egypt and Oman before finally reaching Kathmandu. The aircraft is being flown under command of Capt. Ritesh Karn and Capt. Biraj Rajbansi.
The aircraft that obtained registration of ‘9N-AOM’ has a Manufacturer Serial No. MSN. 4347 and belonged to Horizon Air USA. The aircraft has already spent life of 13 years and 6 months.
Horizon Air is an American regional airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, United States. The airline is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group and it is paid by fellow group member Alaska Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by Alaska Airlines.
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. It took delivery of 2 other Dash 8 aircraft few months back only in 2024.
Shree Airlines has two CRJ-200, two CRJ-700, and six Q-400 Turboprop aircraft. Two CRJs and one Turboprop aircraft have been grounded for technical reasons. With the addition of 1 more aircraft Shree will be operating altogether 11 fixed wing aircrafts.
