2 The Nepali Context's Challenges

1. The safety record-and-the image (the terrain-and-weather accidents' sad ledger; the EU ban's continuing cost; the oversight's capacity-building — the SSC's resolution consolidated?).2. The infrastructure's race (the TIA's saturation — the single runway's delays; the new airports' utilisation-and-the airline-attraction challenge (the Pokhara-and-Bhairahawa's routes' economics); the long-talked second-Kathmandu-airport debates).3. The governance's reform (the regulator-operator split's implementation; the investigation's independence; the political appointments-and-the technical-management tension).4. The market's structure (the national carrier's finances; the private duopoly's concentration; the helicopter-and-the STOL sector's safety-and-economics — the mountain aviation's world).5. The connectivity politics (the India-and-China interfaces: the routes-and-the rights; the Gulf sixth-freedom dependence for the labour traffic; the tourism's yield-vs-the capacity).6. The environment-and-the mountains (the Himalayan routes' emissions; the ETOPS-and-the terrain faces; the climate-adaptation of the mountain airports).7. The human-and-technical resources (the pilots'-and-engineers' pipeline; the brain-drain to the Gulf carriers; the ANSP's technology gaps).