Safety Factor Our Pride

Buddha Air is the first and only airline in Nepal to operate brand new, straight-out-of-the-factory, currently in production pressurized aircraft. The main emphasis of the company has been to operate these aircrafts safely and with maximum comfort to the passengers. To maintain the impeccable safety record of the company, BA operates in only six fully navigational aid equipped asphalt airports with more than 3700 feet runway length and end all flights at TIA, Kathmandu. The minimum cruising altitude for all BA flight is 16,000 feet because the tallest hills are not more than 10,000 feet on the flight path to these airports. BA has not operated to remote/hilly STOL and unpaved airfields, which have ill-equipped navigational aid and have unpredictable weather.


BA has invested heavily in maintaining the safety of the aircraft. Funds are readily available to the engineering department to purchase any spares that is deemed necessary. One time additional investment of about US$ 250,000 to fulfill the requirements of the COSCAP - South Asia audit has been made. BA has invested in all time bound rotable spares including an extra engine, propellers and landing gears.

All BA pilots have flown to and fro from six airports thousands of times. Although many new airlines have started in Nepal and the human resource turnover has been very high, BA has preserved to retain the initial commanders through job satisfaction thus maintaining high safety standards of flight operation. The pilots are under strict instructions to maintain the highest level of safety even at the cost of aborting or canceling flights.

BA has been successful in achieving an insurance claim free operation during its four-year operation history.

Safety Devices

TCAS	:	Airborne Traffic Alert & Collision Avoidance System
GPWS	:	Ground Proximity Warning System
GPS	:	Global Positioning System
EFIS	:	Electronic Flight Instrument System
ELT	:	Emergency Locator Transmitter
Colored Radar System	:	Gives information on mountains, storm, lightening etc

Maintenance

As our aircrafts are all brand new they are almost maintenance free. The factory is very particular that the aircrafts are maintained strictly according to the Service Manual. We also maintain an aircraft spare parts inventory pare parts inventory of more than US$ 1 million, including an extra engine. All our engines are under the maintenance program of the manufacturer Pratt & Whitney .


More than twenty engineers are working in our Engineering Department. All our engineers are certified by Flight Safety to conduct major/minor checks and maintenance programs.

Crew

All our engineers and pilots are factory trained and our captains have more than 4,000 flight hours as commanders, in Beech 1900Ds. We have an average of more than two sets of cockpit crew for each aircraft. In addition we also have 4 instructor pilots.