Yemen Airways Selects Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for Fleet Maintenance

Released on Wednesday, July 16, 2008

FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW, July 16, 2008 � The national flag carrier of Yemen, Yemen Airways, has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a 10-year, $90 million Fleet Management Program agreement. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.

The agreement covers all of the owned A310 aircraft in Yemen Airways fleet, which are powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. The agreement covers all engine maintenance as well as engine health monitoring of the A310 fleet.

As we expand our fleet it is clear to us that we need to have strong partnerships with our maintenance suppliers. We did a detailed evaluation of a number of suppliers for this work, and we are happy to select Pratt & Whitney as it provided Yemen Airways the best overall value," said Capt. Abdulkalek S. Al-Kadi, Chairman, Yemen Airways.

Yemen Airways has three owned Airbus A310s in its long haul fleet, operating from its main base in Sana'a and a hub in Aden. The airline flies to more than 30 destinations in Africa, The Middle East, Europe and Asia.