Not Grounded.....Finished!! Finita la musica...The fat lady has sung !!!
No staff been paid for nearly one month. No redundancy pay outs, super, etc. Left expats in country to find own way home, pay for full fare tickets plus cargo etc. back to country of origin. Best part about this is, staff super was dipped into as well to help meet costs.
Not to mention all the stranded pax RTA left when they ceased their international ops. Poor guys had to purchase new tickets with other airlines because RT tickets were considered useless to Polynesian and Air New Zealand. The best part about this is that RTA knew the 757 was going to be repossed, but thought they might just sell the punters the tickets anyway. Daylight robbery. Nobody was reimbursed>> Thanks for comming or ......Not!!
What about all the punters that had purchased their tickets in advance for travel during the up comming busy months?? No refund?? Just remember that Tonga is the abode of love...Thats all!!
Right before Tonga's most busiest tourist season ever. They had just finished promoting Tonga as a tourist destination, for the first time ever, through a series of tourism projects and roadshows, aimed at travel agents and the like from all over the world. That wasnt cheap either. (Thanks Australia). Not to mention all the other conferences and carnivals soon to be.
Its the only airline I know of that had complete monopoly, it was the only airline serving Tonga, and they managed to send themselves broke.
Why oh why delilah??
Love me tender....
