Well Done RBA!
From Brunei's Borneo Bulletin newspaper. They seriously printed this :ok:

Sounds great...till you get to the end! ;)


Well done RBA

I have just completed a journey together with my friend on your country's wonderful airline - RBA.
We both work in the airline industry as passenger service quality controllers. I have to say your airline is the best airline we have ever flown on.

Our job is to test the quality and comfort of passenger airline seats and we are pleased to say that RBA has the most comfortable and clean seats of all the airlines we have flown recently.

Keep up the good work and the pleasant seating arrangements.


- Fitz Matush and Wilma Butfit
- Germany

Click here and then click the 'Cached' link for cached page of newspaper.

It's not there!

Not if their new CEO has anything to do with it :hmm:

Hello Again,

Four points then I'll get my head below the parapet again.

1.
Gammon Flaps you are right and I stand corrected. The Australian Beer Brand has indeed gone to Kazakstan.

2.
Slingsby,
I look forward to seeing you out here if you do manage it.
Good luck.

3.
Borneo Blues,
I am not a fan of Flt Ops Management, but be fair.
No RBA F.O. or SFO or Captain has been sacked for exceeding his sick leave allowance.
One of the SFOs who was on a Rishworth contract did have a problem.
He was on a one year contract and contracted a seriously nasty and not funny ailment that was going to require a long convalesence.
The length of time he needed off well exceeded a one year contract pilot's allowed sick leave and he could have faced dismissal for this 'breach of contract'.
Our contract requires us to have a valid licence - which includes a class one medical. He wouldn't have a Class One, so he would have 'broken his contract'.
To stop any chance of this happening, the SFO was advised to resign on the understanding that he would be reinstated without prejudice as soon as he was fit and well.
That is what happened.
Not exactly as cold and heartless as you painted it, is it ?

4.
Hope you enjoy my missif about Staff Travel

I'm now heading off to the deepest bomb shelter I can find.

Cheers:ok:

Interview shortlist
 

Some of you fellas make it sound bad over there but I want'a looksee myself.
Any of you guys no if they made a shortlist and told anyone about interviews yet?

Hi Guys,

This is my first post. I feel obliged to write on this subject because of the cr.p that I have been reading on this post and when I say cr.p I mean all the negativity I read.

I have been a pilot for some time with RBA now and believe that I should shed some light on the subject to the "outsiders" reading these threads of whether it is good or bad being part of RBA. I have loved every minute living in Brunei and working for their national carrier. It is a great opportunity for guys to get a Command on a jet and earn some money that is not obtainable thru GA.

Anyway, to all you young gents thinking about applying for a job with RBA to increase your experience levels (and we all know you gotta start somewhere), I truly believe RBA is a great steeping stone or even to stay on as I am. The training is awesome as are the people you will meet here. OK things could be better, but I have friends in all airlines and things can be better anywhere you go. Yes RBA could pay a little more, and the rostering could be a little bit better but hey who doesn't have something bad to say about where they are employed. Yes management could stick up for its pilots a lot more and a couple of the managers should not really be in their positions but hey get over it. You can either choose to be bitter like some or enjoy life.

RBA is great as long as you are not the bitter and twisted type.:ok:

SMO What Are You Smoking?
 

"This is my first post" "I am only a line pilot here"


If you are not in the 767 Fleet Office, you will be shortly. I guess from the name that you just love forked tongued soup, made of course from a fresh snake in the grass.

Facts not Opinion
 

Whatever opinion you may have of working for RBA, some facts are undeniable.


1. The 767 fleet has lost most of its experienced Captains.

2. Another local (training) captain has just resigned.

3. Another senior captain (disparagingly referred to in a previous post until the poster sobered up and realised how crass it made his post look) has his interview with another airline next week.

4. Yet another senior captain is just waiting for his start date before he submits his resignation.

5. Several other captains have just hit 3000 wide body command time so we know where they will be going shortly.

6. The so called "pay rise" is having no effect on retention of experience.

7. Management continue to abuse their positions and not give a damn unless/until it affects their guaranteed month off with their children in Jul/Aug, their christmas/new year holidays or their SYD/AKL/BNE slip patterns.

8. There are lots of DEC 767 positions available and other established carriers are offering experienced RBA Captains a DEC on other types - 744 and 777 to name but 2.

9. Experience levels are so low in the LHS of the 767 that the trainers are now talking of when not if an incident/accident occurs.

10. RBA is recruiting lots of low houred FOs with zero jet time to fly with inexperienced captains. Good for them and not a bad thing if a balance of experience is being maintained. But it isn't.

These are just the Flight Ops problems. Engineering are no better off.

The Board of Directors really should be extremely concerned. I wonder if they even understand the seriousness of the problem and its real root causes?

Popular spot
 

Hey you fellas got a popular spot ay. 300 (pprune) visitors from my dinner last night (Tamanrasset time, bout breakfast time in Nuku' Alofa)

I reckon its cause theres lots of fellas want to come and see what you got. Some of us guys might even been started to fly before your guys planes did. Some might like to work when the bossman gives the keys to his plane and lets you go far far away to a new big smoke. (Probably the yacht club is better though ay).

I hope they got some seats left.

This topic is going the way of "Cypriot Plane Crashes in Greece"

I have to agree with you Bus429, keeping a close eye on this thread.
Very important that those who have something worthwhile to say are able to say it, equally important that those who can only speak rubbish are identified as soon a possible!:ok:

Is there any news on RBL or RBK yet. I am told that RBL is/was AOG due lack of spare parts and that RBK has just gone AOG with a serious cargo door problem. So thats a third of the long haul fleet grounded, no spares in Brunei and lots of unhappy pax.

:ouch:

Sook Mi Oph
 

It is commendable you are so excited to be in RBA, there has never been any doubt it is an incredible opportunity for pilots to break out of the low paid jobs in GA. Even better to be able to pick up a command on a wide bodied jet. I trust you will still be as excited in a few years time, when you notice you are being paid well under the accepted rate as a wide bodied jet Capt and doing long haul trip after long haul trip with 2 days off in Brunei in between. I hope your wife and family will be as excited as you if you have one by then.
It appears from your excitement you are very new and therefore have not seen any cuts to your pay, or reduction in your contract conditions, I trust you will still be as excited when they start reducing your pay, allowances and contract.

There was an exodus from RBA a few years ago, this was when the Rishworth deal began. This was all FOs, who were told by ignorant and arrogant management they would never get commands in RBA. New Rishworth FOs with no jet time were employed and flew with experienced Capts in the company. This was considered acceptable by RBA management, in fact it feathered the nest of a few management, as it continues to do today. The concern now is it’s the experienced Capts who have left and are continuing to leave, therefore it is not uncommon now to have a Capt with two years total jet time, on international operations and a FO with six months total jet time, therefore RBAs wide bodied jets are flying internationally with a total crew experience of two and a half years jet experience. Well below what many wide bodied international airlines would consider acceptable.

Your username gives some insight into your personality, and given you could have a command within the next two years, perhaps RBA should be looking for someone with a little more maturity.

I see you identified Wings on this thread, how accurate you are, we do not know. Now you have removed this from your post, however the damage has been done assuming you were correct. I believe this also reflects your personality and maturity, at least have the decency to identify yourself on this thread before making such accusations.

Well said slimjim, since leaving the abode i have read this thread on and off, but the last thread by SMO made me think the same .... new, inexperienced, imature or may be all of the above ? Obviously hasn't had to watch a once great airline to work for, decline to todays RBA!

NOT because of the recent content but because of the sheer size of this thread and it's effect on bandwidth etc. I'm closing it.

HOWEVER , please feel free to start a RBA Mk.II thread so that all relevant matters can still be discussed in a civilised manner

;) .

Many thanks, BlueEagle.