Reasons for the 2D downfall wasn't equipment, start looking at who won the tender and where certain manager now works as a start. The old machines were incredibly reliable in a very challenging operating environment. Current operator will butcher this every summer with SAAB and not likely to ever have the same level of pax support. The pax will simply drive a different direction and catch a qf service as was the case when a SAAB last operated out there! The gulf is the same and govt is getting a lot of heat, next dash operator will get this work based on non conformance/poor performance by incumbent is my bet.