AVIC Aircraft, Nepal Airlines Celebrate First MA60 Delivery in 2017
By Lena Ge, China Aviation Daily | Feb. 10, 2017
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On the eve of Chinese Lantern Festival, AVIC officially handed over one more MA60 aircraft to Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC). The MA60 delivery ceremony was held on the afternoon of February 8 (local time) at Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport.
Chinese and Nepalese governments attached great importance to this cooperation between the two nations in the field of air transportation.
To celebrate the second MA60 delivery to NAC, Nepalese Minister of Culture Tourism and Civil Aviation Jiwan Bahadur Shahi, Secretary Shankar Prasad Adhikari, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong, Economic Counsellor Peng Wei, NAC Managing Director Sugat Ratna Kansakar, AVIC Deputy General Manager Gao Jianshe, AVIC International Chairman Liu Hongde, AVIC Aircraft Deputy General Manager Chen Fusheng, Deputy General Manager Zhangxiaohong, AVIC International Aero-Development President Zhang Guangjian, Vice-President Xu Bo attended the handover ceremony.
After the ceremony, the VIPs from both countries boarded the MA60 aircraft and paid high compliments about the cabin comfortability. Apart from the aircraft delivery, AVIC will cooperate with Nepal in other fields of aviation, in order to help improve NAC's maintenance and operation ability of the China-made aircraft, and make NAC an airline with modern aviation and ground facilities, as well as advanced management.
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