Saturday, July 27, 2019

Yeti adds new ATR

Yeti Airlines announced the addition of a fifth ATR72-500 aircraft MSN 740 to its fleet. The aircraft with Nepali Registration no. 9N-ANG arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu today, after it’s ferry flight from Bangkok, Thailand.
With the acquisition of our fifth ATR72-500 aircraft, the airliner will increase its flight frequencies to certain destinations and also add some new ones, it said, in a press note. “We hope it will help Nepal achieve the target of 2 million tourist arrivals for the ‘Visit Nepal 2020’ year,” the release reads, adding that the ATR72-500 is a twin-engine turboprop aircraft manufactured by the French-Italian consortium ATR. “With it’s superior build and performance the ATR72 has now become the most successful regional carrier in the world, steadily expanding and entering into new global markets.”
The ATR72-500 is powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW127 engines and are equipped with Hamilton Sundstrand composite blade propellers. These high-tech engines and propellers ensure exceptional performance, fuel efficiency, remarkably low noise and low greenhouse gas emissions.
Well known global operators of the ATR72-500 aircraft are Air New Zealand, Aer Lingus, SAS, HOP!, Azul, Bangkok Airways, Indigo, MalindoAir etc.
Yeti Airlines started it’s flight operations from 1998.
Besides the ATR72-500s, the domestic airliner also operates a fleet of five BAE Systems Jetstream 41 aircraft. Tara Air, it’s sister airline, which operates two Dornier Do228 and four DHC6 Twin Otter aircraft, Yeti Airlines operates the widest network of flight routes in Nepal.

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