Kathmandu, Dec. 4 -- Nepal Airlines will be switching to Narita International Airport in Tokyo in a bid to keep its Japan service alive after a disastrous launch to Osaka's Kansai International Airport.

The national flag carrier hopes to start flying to the Japanese capital at the beginning of next year. But this time too it has no proper marketing plan which resulted in rows of empty seats on its Osaka flights.

Nepal Airlines began its Kathmandu-Osaka service on August 29 with an upbeat outlook, but disappointment set in with passenger occupancy remaining below 30 percent on all its flights in September.

Sulekh Mishra, deputy spokesperson for the state-owned airline, told the Post that they had signed a ground handling agreement for N...