Interesting to read the problems of RBA over the past two years or three years. Seems to me that a good few of the RBA managers jumped ship and moved to Air Astana, where recently the previous good profits have turned to losses and belt-tightening measures are being hastily enforced. In Kazakhstan also the attitudes of the government officials are similar to those of Brunei (too many expat pilots for instance) so it seems there is a great deal of commonality here. The question I have is did the old management take the problems from here to Air Astana or did they get out while they could? Seems odd that the problems have followed them to Air Astana, where recently the President wrote a very downbeat email to all staff about cost cutting and financial losses (also posted on company intranet). If RBA is to be downsized in order to survive maybe Air Astana is heading the same way. It just seems that (with a two year time lag) the story is going the same way!