India, Sept. 10 -- India's airlines will commence operating scheduled and additional flights to Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), people familiar with the matter said, as the authorities opened the Kathmandu airport which was forced to shut down on Tuesday amid escalating violence in the country.

"The civil aviation ministry had an hour-long meeting with both IndiGo and Air India to discuss the rescue operation. It was then decided that an Air India flight would be leaving for Nepal on Wednesday night itself," an official close to the development said.

"The priority is to fly back stranded passengers who had to be in the airport overnight on Tuesday," the official added.

Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu said the avi...