Nepal Airline Safety

Nepal has its own international airlines carrier. Once known as Royal Nepal Airlines (RNA not to be confused with Royal Nepal Army), it is now known as simply Nepal Airlines Corporation ever since the king dude got ousted in the 2006 People’s Uprising.

While those who have traveled in one of their air crafts may come up with complaints for the lack of hygiene to loose chairs and trays, the airlines seems to have a reasonably good safety record. One wonders why.

Recent news has revealed the secret to their safety measures, which have been so effective in this cut throat business of airlines industry. You can read about it here, here, here, here, here, here and here. And so, next time you board one of their planes, you may hear an in-flight announcement such as this.

This is Captain Kumar welcoming you aboard Nepal Airlines flight RA 123 to Hong Kong. We will be taking off in 5 minutes time. The estimated time of arrival at the destination is 5 hours. We will be reaching a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.

We take great pride in our passenger safety. In fact, we had all our planes (both of them) grounded and regular maintenance done a couple of days ago.

We apologize for the 2 days' delay of this flight as we were having problems fixing the plane. We came to a conclusion that the plane was jinxed. Anyhow, one of the top guys had a vision in his dream that 2 goats were to be sacrificed. So it was arranged to sacrifice a white goat and a black goat in front of this jinxed Boeing 757 aircraft. And we are happy to announce that this aircraft is now deemed completely safe to fly.

We would like to remind you that we give attention to safety of the highest consideration. Have a pleasant flight.

Please don't freak out. This is very normal.