BAE Systems wins spares support contract extension with Yeti Airlines of Nepal

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has won a two-year extension to its long-running Rate-Per-Flying-Hour (RPFH) spares support contract with leading Nepalese regional operator, Yeti Airlines. The MACRO contract (Material and Components Repair and Overhaul) covers the airline’s fleet of seven BAE Systems-built 29-seat Jetstream 41 turboprop airliners and covers some 240 separate part numbers. Under the contract BAE Systems retains responsibility for managing the spares inventory, logistics and repairs. This allows Yeti Airlines to focus its attention on the day-to-day running of its intensive domestic schedule with the Jetstream 41s, while BAE Systems provides a first-class support service. Yeti Airlines first enrolled on to the MACRO programme in 2006 and this second extension by the airline will see the programme continue until the end of 2017. Yeti has become the first operator to sign up for the new remodelled version of MACRO.