Kathmandu, April 25 -- Nepal's civil aviation ministry has introduced a new regulation aimed at consolidating and streamlining the airline industry's legal framework. This comes a decade after the regulation was first proposed.

The new Air Service Management Regulation 2025 was officially published in the Nepal Gazette on April 21.

A key change in the regulation is the removal of the provision that required new international airline companies to acquire a licence through competitive bidding.

Under the old rules, the ministry issued a public notice and invited interested companies to participate in competitive bidding whenever it decided that a new international airline was needed.

This process typically allowed for the issuance of two...