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Christmas Beattle
23rd Feb 2004, 09:04
Has anyone heard of Royal Tongan Airlines expansion plans into A340-500's? Matangi news in Tonga report difficulties in achieveing the market penetration they need into North America and Europe. There is no detail on delivery dates or number of aircraft, however, they plan direct flights to New York city, Frankfurt, London, Paris and Amsterdam. This will allow their high yield customers direct entry into the Kingdom. This flies in the face of pacific blue's and Air pac's plans to increase relatively shorter haul but increased frequency flights into the pacific. Let's hope it works for the tiny country

gameboy1971
23rd Feb 2004, 10:21
Please tell me you are joking.....the economics on those aircraft are pretty marginal even if you fill them entirely with higher yielding loads.

Borneo Wild Man
23rd Feb 2004, 12:11
And wheres the money come from this time?
And that must include extending thr r/way, apron and terminal areas to support such an operation.Oh yeah and while the Tongan govt are at it a couple of ILS's would be nice.
Dreamers!:confused: