BNAEI 44xA Kayo Maple Air System

KAYO MAPLE AIR SYSTEM (KMAS), callsign KAYO SYSTEM, is a smaller airline of the nation Kayo. Formerly a regional airline based out of Machijiba-Ibraki Airfield [MJI], KMAS has shifted gears in the industry. Influenced by the success of low-cost airlines on the continent Dandorf, KMAS has begun to refit their older turboprop aircraft and order new, cheaper aircraft (such as this above BNAEI 44xA). This is shown by their new livery instated in spring of 2000, removing a lot of the color for much more white paint, and their "KMAS" branding billboard title on the sides. KMAS has moved it's hub of operations into the old original terminal of Machikayo Reji International Airport [MKO], the main airport of the capital city of Kayo, as of spring of 2000.

This whole move is in part a competitive venture, as the Kayin mainline airline Kayo International Airlines (KIA) has begun to move into KMAS's originally monopolized routes to smaller airfields in the mountains of central and northern Kayo. KMAS has maintained service on these routes, even acquiring new aircraft to serve them, but has also looked to more mainline domestic Kayin routes as well as part of the low-cost move. KMAS has maintained mostly turboprop aircraft as a cost-saving move to keep it's already established pilots, but is considering purchasing some jet aircraft, hopefully to be delivered earlier than 2005. KMAS maintains a fleet of around 30 aircraft (still wip on the fleet).



The Bunswang National Aircraft Engineering Institution, or BNAEI has supplied KMAS with this new aircraft in the summer of 2000. Registered as KM002, it is the second BNAEI 44xA that KMAS has received. BNAEI is still a new company to the commercial aircraft field, having only starting development of passenger craft in 1988. The 44xA has been in production since 1998, as an extended range and updated version of the 44A. BNAEI's aircraft may be cheaper, but they are not notably less safe than other companies'. BNAEI is owned by the national government of Bunswang, and strictly observed by its aviation authority. Notably, even though Kayo and Bunswang are very close geographically, KMAS is the only airline in Kayo that operates BNAEI aircraft as of 2000. This is due to historical tensions between the two nations, but as this new millennium begins, the two nations have been lead to loosen economic restrictions on each other, and open to more positive relations.

KM002 is based out of Machikayo Reji International Airport [MKO] to align with KMAS's new base, and usually flies north to serve the larger of the small northern airports, along with some older BNAEI 44Bs (a stretch of the 44A).