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Seven Aircrafts

KOTFA 2007 Seoul Korea from 7 June to 10 June

Buddha Air commenced its operation on 11 October 1997 with one Beech 1900 aircraft covering Biratnagar, Pokhara and Mountain fl ights. With the support of its valued passenger, travel agencies and well wishers, Buddha air which has been providing

services in 9 different destinations with six Beech aircraft is now able to add one more to its fl eet. With the operation of the seventh aircraft Buddha Air believes to deliver much safer, reliable and comfortable service, further Buddha Air assures to extent its fl ights

Excellency depends on his/her competencies & efforts so Buddha Air has awarded 13 staffs by awarding them with Cash reward, as per their annual performance to develop their

Staff rewarded

C O M M E N T S

This is the fi rst time I have read Bud-

dha Yatra; I found the Amazing facts & Desti-

nation very good, as I'm a journalist.

Rosy Shrestha,Kathmandu

Congratulations Buddha Air for be-

ing awarded the highest safety record 2006

award ,Buddha air's air crew are really help-

ful.

Dr. Deepak Aryal, Kathmandu

Yatra is a really nice news letter, it

would be better if you could send a copy to

all the Royal Club members.

Ashok Shrestha,, Kathmandu

Buddha air's service is really nice ,I'm

really thankful to its management ,I wish

buddha air for their good costumers service.

Parmanand Joshi, Dhangadi

Looking at all the domestic Airlines

Yatra is really good newsletter & its

more informative too, its good to know about

what the company is doing for its safety of

the aircrafts & for the passengers.

Ganesh Shrestha, Kathmandu

I have been fl ing with Buddha air since

90's it's really wonderful how you have taken

care of your passengers.

Mjnu kumar limbu, Lalitpur

It is good Buddha air operates its fl ight

to Dhangadi, reading yatra was a pleasure

because I came to know a lot of things about

Buddha air.

Gopi Sapkota, Kathmandu

Service of Buddha Air is absolutely

very nice and is very comfortable. It would

be more joyful journey if the passengers

would by provided with more mgazine.

Deekshya Thapa, Koteshwor

Buddha air is the perfect Airlines in the domestic

market in Nepal.

Abhishek Sharma, Kuleshwor

Everything is perfect in Buddha air I ap-

preciate the perfect timing of its fl ight & the con-

cept of Royal card is excellent.

Aneeva Shakya, Kathmandu

1July-September 2007BUDDHA Yatra

No organization can run in long term without effi cient manpower. Organization needs a team of capable employees not only for the daily operation but also for the organizational development. If the employees are not so effi cient, Organization should make them capable through different types of programs for the development of their performances.

Buddha Air has decided to promote the employees working at lower band if they are capable for the required posts. Buddha Air has recently promoted nine employees from attendant band working as loader and offi ce boy to support band as an offi ce assistant. The requirements for the post were 2 years experience for intermediate level and 5 years for SLC.

"We are very happy and very proud to

get this opportunity" they expressed their feelings in one voice, "We were serving buddha air as we can and now the company gave us this opportunity for the appreciation of our labor, efforts and dedications."

Upendra Kumar Majhi,, who has been promoted and transferred from city sales offi ce Hattisar to Revenue division H/O, says " I got the table work in this organization where I had been serving since 3 January 2000, as an offi ce boy. I can't express my feelings in words. I am very thankful to Buddha Air for giving me this great opportunity."

Prakash Karki, who was working at Nepalgunj Station, got the promoted and transferred to Dhangadhi station. He too says that Buddha air gave him the chance to rise and he is thankful for this great opportunity."

Buddha Air Promoted Nine Staff

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Nepal Government felicitate Buddha AirHearty Congratulations to Buddha Air for being awarded "THE HIGHEST SAFETY RECORD 2006" amongst all the Nepali airlines company by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation for its dedication to quality service and passenger-safety as well for the ownership transfer of all six aircrafts in its name.

"SAFETY AND SECURITY - FIRST ANDALWAYS THE TOP PRIORITY"

GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL, MINISTRY OF CULTURE, TOURISM AND CIVIL AVIATION

AWARDS TO

Buddha Air Pvt. Ltd.

For the Highest Safety Record2006

on the occasion of International Civil Aviation Day7th December 2006

Bandipur was earlier settled on by the Magars but today, it is the cultural mix of different ethnics and beliefs

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S O C I A L S E R V I C E

We at Buddha Air feel that Corporate Social Responsibility is the funda-mental of being involved in profi t making activities. Every entity has an obligation towards its society to make it better and Buddha Air is not exception.

When we became fi nancially ma-tured, we started to identify our segment of social responsibility and thought that we need to focus on bringing some eco-nomic change in the rural mass, which constitutes of 85% of the population based on agricultural economy. We did not want to dole out some cash for petty donations, which tends to make people more dependent .

We started an agricultural extension program in Tankisunwari VDC of Morang to gain confi dence of the local small scale farmers. We are able to increase the pro-duction output by simply exposing the farmers to appropriate fertilizer manage-ment, required technology transfer and

Promoting the farmer promoting the nation

Promoting the farmer promoting the nation

duced product banking for the farmers who were organized in this cooperative (which has been registered as per the co-operative act). The cooperative charges an interest of 12% per annum and pro-vides loan to the farmers at the begin-ning of plantation for requirements such as seeds and fertilizers . The farmers bank their harvest with the cooperative and will sell them when they get the best price, which is about 4-5 months after harvest.

We have already concluded a suc-cessful season of product banking for paddy last year, where a farmer gained almost 2 times taking into consideration the higher yield, saving an interest of the loan and better price of their product.

Now, we are planning to support this cooperative but lobbying for funds for the product banking, which will cover the two Village Development Committee where this program is implemented.

Our responsibility is to break this vicious chain and get the farmers the best price of their product

provision of good seeds. Once we gained the confi dence of

the farmers, we were able to convince them to form a cooperative so that they can continue this work as well as intro-duce product banking. The fundamental problem of our farmers is; they are not getting the right price for their product because the middlemen are very active in this fi eld and they have the gullible farm-ers in their account by providing loans at an astronomous interest rate that could go up to 60% per anum.

Our responsibility is to break this vicious chain and get the farmers the best price of their product, so we intro-

due to mechanical failures and pilots not following to the prescribed fl ying procedures according to the aircraft Flight Manuals. The weekly reports generated by ADAS and FDR automatically fi nds if any pilot is not operating as per the manuals if any, which is immediately corrected by the Flight Safety Division of Buddha Air. All our pilots are operating as per the manuals due to these checks. The engineers are also made aware at an early stage if there are anyof malfunctions in the aircraft components; specially the engines, which they can rectify immediately insuring safe fl ights.

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S A F E T Y M E A S U R E S

ADAS: This unit performs following primary functions:

(a) Exceedance Event Recording: The ADAS can monitor criti-cal engine parameters and record instances where they have exceeded preset values (exceedances).

(b) Engine Trend Monitoring: The ADAS can gather and store engine data samples for trend analysis.

(c) Cockpit Indication: The ADAS can be confi gured to warn the pilot of a prior exceedance on start up or shutdown, and provide system self-test indication.

We download the ADAS data regularly and analyze them every week using Turbine Tracker Software developed by AL-TAIR, the manufacturer of ADAS systems. We make exceedance report based upon the FLIGHT MANUAL and send it to FLIGHT SAFETY Division of Buddha Air for required action. FLIGHT SAFETY Division then takes necessary action or suggests that involved fl ight crew so that such exceedance will not be re-peated in the future.

FDR: This unit is a part of what we called the BLACKBOX. This

unit continuously records more than 18 different engines and