Second Yemenia A330 airbus arrives [Archives:2004/793/Local News]

Hassan Al-Zaidi
The second newly purchased Airbus plane model A330 has arrived from Toulouse in France last Tuesday evening at the Sana'a International Airport to join the fleet of Yemenia Airways, which also includes another four modern planes.
This comes in the frame of efforts to expand and upgrade the air transportation means of Yemen's national air carrier Yemen Airways (Yemenia) to cope with the high standards of international air carriers to compete regionally and help enhance the economy of the country.
Mr. Amin Al-Haimy, Deputy Managing Director for Commercial Affairs and Information Technology of Yemenia, affirmed that the cost of the newly imported plane is US$ 90 million to be paid by the Yemenia.
In a reception and ceremony held on the occasion at the Sana'a International Airport, Jean Louis Rxsto, Senior Consultant at the French Embassy to Sana'a expressed his pleasure and satisfaction about the importing of the plane that was manufactured by the European Company Airbus, which is based in Toulouse, France. He ascertained that the purchase of the plane reflects the depth of the Yemeni-French and Yemeni-European ties.
The newly bought plane will start operation within weeks and will fly to distant cities to bring and transport passengers. This is expected to encourage European and French tourists along with many other tourists from all over the world to visit Yemen with confidence by its technologically advanced Yemenia planes.
A number of media personnel from France attended the handover ceremony in Toulouse and arrived on board the plane to Sana'a on Tuesday.
General Manager of Public Relations of Yemenia ascertained that the airline company currently possesses 12 planes, five of which are Airbuses model, three modern Boeing planes, plus the earlier Boeing 727 and 737 models.
——
[archive-e:793-v:13-y:2004-d:2004-11-25-p:ln]