Kathmandu, Feb. 28 -- As Nepal's largest domestic airline with 14 planes in its fleet, Buddha Air needs to monitor flights, and it is now doing that with its Flight Operation Quality Assurance (FOQA).

The system allows the carrier's operations department in Kathmanduto analyse aircraft performance fromt he moment it starts its engines to the moment it reaches its destination and switches off.

The airline is now flying9 ATR-72s, 3 ATR-42s and 2 Beechcraft 1900D aircraft to 12 destinations from Kathmandu and Pokhara. The airline just added an ATR-72 and willbe inducting another one in July.

Buddha Air's Corporate Safety Department send coded information to the main hangar in Kathmandu with details of the flights such as altitude, speed, ...