Nepal's national carrier grounds Chinese aircraft

Nepal's national carrier grounds Chinese aircraft

Nepal's national carrier is grounding its Chinese aircrafts

Chinese goods havealready started bleeding Nepal with the country'snational carrier grounding Chinese aircraft.

From July 16, the Chineseplanes will not fly again. Nepal airlines says it can't afford to fly the planes anymore, therefore, it is cutting its losses.

According to a report, Nepal was forced to buy the planesin a government-to-government deal. Theplanes have been incurring heavy losses for Nepal ever since they were purchased.

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Nepal had walked into a bad deal andto make matters worst, it wasa deal that could have been avoided.Teams from Bangladesh and Nepal had reportedly travelled to China to inspect the aircraft.

Bangladesh had rejected it but Nepal decided to buy the planes and they were fleeced by China. Reports say that Nepal wanted China to gift these planes.

ButBeijing told Kathmandu that it will have to buy the aircraft before it could expect a gift. Ultimately, a deal was reached and Nepal agreed to buy six planes and got two more as gifts.

The first batch of these planes has now been grounded.

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