More turbulence for Nepal’s aviation sector as its audit unlikely even in 2022

Crucial bills to split the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, a key to the reform of the sector, are in limbo. The audit was originally scheduled for 2019 but was continuously deferred.

The decennial International Civil Aviation Organisation’s full safety audit of Nepal’s aviation sector was supposed to have been conducted in 2019 but the government had asked it to defer it by a year.