Kathmandu
1,400 m
Lukla
2,845 m
45 mins
6:30 AM
8:00 AM
1:00 PM
$500
per seat
$2,500
aircraft
Nepal helicopter flight desk
Everest helicopter flights, booked properly.
Published prices on every route. Licensed operators only. A dispatch desk that answers in minutes, whether you are planning a trek from home or standing on a glacier waiting for a lift out.
7,00+
Passengers flown
12
Licensed operators
20+
Evacuations flown
24/7
Dispatch desk
01Scheduled flights
The routes people actually ask for
Shared seats depart on a published timetable. Private charters leave when you want them to. Every price includes government taxes and is the figure we quote on WhatsApp.
Kathmandu
1,400 m
Lukla
2,845 m
Lukla
2,845 m
Kathmandu
1,400 m
45 mins
8:00 AM
9:30 AM
11:00 AM
$500
per seat
$2,500
aircraft
Gorakshep
5,164 m
Lukla
2,845 m
25 mins
6:30 AM
8:30 AM
11:00 AM
$600
per seat
$1,800
aircraft
Gorakshep
5,164 m
Kathmandu
1,400 m
1 hr 10 mins
6:30 AM
8:30 AM
11:00 AM
$1,150
per seat
$4,200
aircraft
Kathmandu
1,400 m
Everest Base Camp
5,364 m
4 to 5 hrs return
6:30 AM
7:30 AM
$1,200
per seat
$4,800
aircraft
Namche Bazaar
3,440 m
Lukla
2,845 m
10 mins
8:00 AM
$200
per seat
$750
aircraft
02How we work
We are the flight desk, not the airline
Almost nobody searching for a helicopter in Nepal is talking to an operator. They are talking to an agency. The difference matters, so we say it plainly: we charter aircraft from certified operators and manage the flight around you.
What that buys you is choice. When one operator is grounded for maintenance or has both machines committed to a rescue, we move you to another rather than telling you to wait. On a five-day weather window in October, that is the difference between flying and not.
Every operator we work with holds a current air operator certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. We publish who they are, when they started flying and how many aircraft they hold, because you are entitled to know whose machine you are getting into.
What we hold ourselves to
- Certification
- CAAN licensed operators only
- Pricing
- Published, not quoted on request
- Weather holds
- Rescheduled free, every time
- Response time
- Minutes by day, same night by dark
- Evacuations
- Coordinated with your insurer
- Payload
- Checked before you pay, not after
03Departure board
Flying in the next few days
Shared seats on scheduled departures. Seat counts are confirmed with operators each morning, so what you see is what is genuinely left.
All departures are subject to visual flight rules and weather. Seat counts are confirmed with operators each morning.
04The thing everyone worries about
Lukla weather, explained honestly
Tenzing-Hillary Airport sits at 2,845 metres on a sloping shelf with a mountain at one end and a drop at the other. It is flown under visual rules only. When the cloud comes up the valley, nothing moves, and no amount of money changes that.
Helicopters hold an advantage over the fixed-wing flights: a smaller window is enough, and a machine can wait at Ramechhap or Phaplu for the cloud to lift rather than cancelling the day. It is an advantage, not an exemption.
So we run a weather centre with live observations from every airstrip we fly to, and we say flyable, marginal or grounded in words before we show you a single number.
05Knowledge base
Written by people who dispatch these flights
No listicles. What the day actually looks like, what goes wrong, and what it costs when it does.
What an Everest helicopter tour day actually looks like
Most pages about this tour describe the view. Here is the day, hour by hour, including the parts nobody mentions.
Read the guide →Operator or agency: who is actually flying you?
Almost nobody booking a helicopter in Nepal is talking to the company that owns the aircraft. Here is why that matters and what to…
Read the guide →Shared seat or private charter: how to actually decide
The break-even is not where most people assume, and the right answer changes depending on whether you are flying up or down.
Read the guide →Need a helicopter? We answer in minutes.
Dispatch desk staffed 24 hours, every day of the year. Bookings, weather holds and emergency evacuations.