As the performances were only in the south of Oman, those of us at Seeb (Camp Toss I beleive it's called now), just put it down to bad luck. We were surprised however, when we heard that there were 200 tickets/places for people from Seeb to travel (using internal AT), that were utilised by admin/support people. These tickets/places were not offered to the operating crews or respective ground crews. Even to those that were fortunate to be having a 2 day break in the flying programme!!!