Introduction about Druk Air Corporation Limited
Drukair Corporation Limited operating as Drukair — Royal Bhutan Airlines is the national airline of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Its headquarters are in the western districts of Paro.
Founded in 1981, ten years after the third king Jigme Dorji Wangchuck gradually began to open up the kingdom from self-imposed isolation, and seven years after welcoming its first foreign visitors, the airline commenced operations in 1983 with flights from Calcutta to Paro. A switch to BAe 146-100 equipment occurred in November 1988, and in order to meet increased demand, those aircraft were replaced in 2004 with two Airbus A319s.
Drukair operates a modest scheduled flight network within the South Asian region from its base at Paro Airport and currently consists of eight destinations in five countries.
Bhutan has drawn a Vision 2020 Plan, as part of its Five Year Development Plans targeting several sectors for development, which includes improved external air links by 2017 that would enable increase in income from tourism from 100% (by 2012) to 150% (2017) coupled with completion of second National Highway by 2017. It has also signed several memoranda of understanding with the government of India, not only to enhance air traffic facilities and operations but also to help Bhutan during emergency situations of floods and earthquake affecting the Paro Airport.
Today, Drukair is a professional corporate entity under the aegis of the Druk Holdings Investment of the royal government. The hallmark of Drukair is safety first and the best of comforts therein for travelers. As the nation opens up more to tourism and gradually steps into the global village, Drukair leaves no stone unturned in ensuring that every passenger for most of whom the first glimpse of Bhutan is abroad on Drukair, gets the best impression of Bhutan.