Kathmandu, Aug. 12 -- Nepal Airlines Corporation has received only two bids for its last Boeing 757 that has been put up for sale. The deadline for submitting the bids ended Sunday.

When the aircraft flies off into the sunset, it will mark the end of the Boeing era in Nepal that began nearly five decades ago.

The state-owned carrier has also put up the plane's spare parts for sale as well as it will now have an all-Airbus fleet.

The national flag carrier had set the minimum sale price at $7.8 million for the 31-year-old Boeing named Gandaki with registration number 9N-ACB and its spare parts.

The jet is valued at $5.4 million out of the total sale price, the carrier said.

Ganesh Bahadur Chand, spokesperson of Nepal Airlines, said onl...