Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) on Thursday announced resumption of its flights on the Kathmandu-Dubai route starting August 18, four years after it was suspended due to the lack of aircraft.

NAC Spokesperson Ram Hari Sharma said they would be conducting three flights per week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) on the sector. The Kathmandu-Dubai operation was ceased in 2012.

The UAE is the fourth largest destination for Nepali migrant workers. According to the Economic Survey 2015-16, in the first eight months of this fiscal year, 34,975 Nepali migrants had left for jobs in the UAE.

The national career, in its heydays, used to fly to Amsterdam, Colombo, Dhaka, Frankfurt, Karachi, London, Osaka, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore and Vienna, besides five Indian cities— Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Patna. It presently connects Kathmandu with  Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Bangkok and three cities in India—Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.