A few personal conflicts seem to be appearing - best they are put aside and the thread concentrated upon.
It appears that the latest "proving flight" didn't go as well as people appear to believe. Maybe the diversion from Honiara without a current forecast for the alternate did little to impress the regulators. The contractor is not in a position to fulfil its contractual obligations, pure and simple, and the Solomons Airline passengers are the losers with ad-hoc charters being arranged to fill the void. Consequnces of baggage left behind, uncertain departure times, missed connections et-al hardly allows what was a reasonable operation to instill confidence in the travelling public.
Methinks the AOC is still more a dream than a short term reality.