Originally Posted by
philrami
I've been travelling to KTM for 40 years. Never landed on 20 with a heavy. 20 is circle to land and VFR only. On the LiveATC recording, all those cleared to land on 20 are domestic flights, operated by Twin otters or the like. In addition, this airline has been flying to KTM only for a few month, thus had a little experience of the environment.
we did circling approached to runway 20 in a 767, and Airbus 340 as well...at some point it was stopped, not sure if it was our airline, or the Civil aviation of Nepal...