







Yeti Airlines aircraft arriving on the walk to the plane.









Cabin interior shot. I opted for a seat toward the back, away from the wing and propellor.





This guy was disengaging some sort of equipment from the aircraft when the crew started the engines. He almost blew away.

Yeti Airlines aircraft arriving on the walk to the plane.Cabin interior shot. I opted for a seat toward the back, away from the wing and propellor.This guy was disengaging some sort of equipment from the aircraft when the crew started the engines. He almost blew away.





Indicative of the views. The dirty windows didn't help.





Banking over the outskirts of Kathmandu.





Lolly.





Very tasty peanuts. I was unable to photograph the Pepsi due to some turbulence ...





... which also resulted in the FA having to momentarily take a seat.





Cockpit shot.



Indicative of the views. The dirty windows didn't help.Banking over the outskirts of Kathmandu.Lolly.Very tasty peanuts. I was unable to photograph the Pepsi due to some turbulence ...... which also resulted in the FA having to momentarily take a seat.Cockpit shot.





As least we were prepared.





And we definitely had it better than this guy.





Another planeload of hardworking Nepalese heads to the Gulf. As least we were prepared.And we definitely had it better than this guy.Another planeload of hardworking Nepalese heads to the Gulf.



The baggage claim pergola.





And the picnic. The baggage claim pergola.And the picnic.





Brings a tear to the eye.



The departure area filled up quickly as a Buddha Airlines ATR arrived from KTM. No sooner had the plane stopped moving that the door was opened and thepax were being herded off the plane. Meanwhile the Buddha groundstaff were manhandling cargo and luggage out of the forward hold. When the last PKRbound pax had stepped off the plane, terminal staff threw open the doors and the Buddha pax streamed toward the aircraft, leaving the original 6 of usfrom Guna airlines checkin in a deserted departure lounge.When our aircraft eventually arrived I happened to be sitting directly in front of the boarding door, so I got first dibs on the seat, and photos of theapron. Trust an airline nerd to get a kick out of that!The rest of the passengers quickly boarded, receiving a cursory 'Namaste' from the flight attendant. A pre-recorded safety announcement with noaccompanying demonstration was played first in Nepali then in English. It was only halfway through when we took off. For the first few minutes of theflight we followed the highway to Kathmandu, which I had been uncomfortably inching along just a few days previously. Other than that, the views wereseverely restricted due to the clouds. To me, this was more than made up for by the in flight service, which consisted of a pre-takeoff boiled lolly, apacket of peanuts, and a plastic cup of lukewarm Pepsi, with TWO proactive refills!We landed smoothly in KTM ahead of time, but taxiied in the opposite direction to the terminal buildings. We deplaned toward a waiting bus whichconfirmed that we were on the exact opposite side of the runway to the terminal building, which lead to a long and bumpy bus ride.For some reason, the bus bypassed the terminal proper, where passengers from Buddha and Yeti Airlines were getting off their busses. Instead, the bustook us to an open air pergola where a large group of South Indian women were having a picnic. There, our bags were unloaded into the midst of thepicnic and one other arriving flight and our bag tags receipts were cross referenced.My hotel had failed to send a car for me, so I begrudgingly paid the 500 NPR prepaid taxi fee to get to Thamel, but was soon cheered up by the fact that,as I was free to wander the streets of another tourist ghetto, I was certainly back where I belonged.Guna Airlines was rudimentary, however it was clean, safe and cheery enough to convince me that parting with US$80 for the experience was worthwhile.And as for my impression of Nepal, that's a whole other story which I am in the process of putting together now.Thanks for reading, comments, questions and feedback are much appreciated.afterDawn