RBA Tonga contract
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No change in the way RBA "management" communicate with their staff. Where would you be without the Borneo Bulletin or Brunei Direct, the method by which RBA informs those unfortunates about to lose their jobs?
They also seem to have an unfortunate knack of liaisons, or potential liaisons, with losers in the aviation world.
They also seem to have an unfortunate knack of liaisons, or potential liaisons, with losers in the aviation world.
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Its happening right now, regardless of all rumours. Things only happen when someoneone makes them happen 
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Cock Up on the paperwork front, my spies in the abode tell me. Could be 2 months at least before paperwork is in order to operate to HNL, by which time anything could have happened.
Apparently, in an aviation monthly magazine recently read, it has been quoted that Royal Tonga are looking to lease another aircraft instead of RBB due to US problems and current operating costs. I think with the US in it's state of turmoil, it may be somewhile before the FAA do this audit. Dot the 'I's and cross the 'T's next time.
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I hear tha Tongans are returning the a/c due the paperwork cockup with regard to US ops. RBA applied to operate to USA about 6 years ago and was eventually given a class one. ( after the Brunei government entered into a contract with the UKCAA to provide oversight). This application was never followed up so all the other aspects of US operation were not completed. You cannot just start when you feel like it. The US bureacratic machine is worse than ours.
No doubt the Tongans will use this as an excuse to not pay!
No doubt the Tongans will use this as an excuse to not pay!
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Does anyone know where each of RBA's 757s are now? Are they being used on various routes, or are they parked somewhere? If they are just parked, what is their fate?
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One 757 is wet leased to Tonga, the other is flying services from Brunei as usual and none of RBA's aircraft are parked.
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Last edited by Blacksheep; 30th Jan 2003 at 12:40.
