BB Airways (BBW, Kathmandu) has now wet-leased B757-200 XU-TSC (MSN 26251) from its partner TonléSap Airlines (Phnom Penh) to launch new four times weekly service from Kathmandu to Kuala Lumpur International and three weekly flights to Hong Kong International. These new flights have been launched on October 11. BB competes with AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur International), Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur International) and Nepal Airlines (RA, Kathmandu) on the route to Kuala Lumpur and with Dragonair (Hong Kong International) and Nepal Airlines on the route to Hong Kong. As previously reported, it also operates a weekly charter service in cooperation with TonléSap from Kathmandu via Siem Reap to Taipei Taoyuan.