KATHMANDU: Two more international airlines are going to operate their regular flights from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).

Thai Smile Airways of Thailand is making its flight from July 1 and SriLankan Airlines of Sri Lanka from July 6, according to the TIA office.

Thai Smile Airways is operating flight from TIA for the first time while SriLankan Airlines is resuming its flight, which was closed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Spokesperson of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), Jagannath Niraula, said, “Thai Smile Airways is operating Kathmandu-Bangkok direct flights from Friday.”

According to CAAN, the Thai company has got permission to operate flights all the seven days in a week.

Similarly, the SriLankan Airlines has got permission to operate seven regular flights in a week against four flights.

Twenty-four airlines, including two Nepali airlines, have now been operating international flights from TIA.