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Who got some more information about Royal Tongan Airlines? Did some of you allready made a flight with them? What's their homebase? Where do they fly to?
I think the home base of Royal Tongan Airlines is Nuku'Alofa, the capital of Tonga. The airlines flies to South Pacific places, I think they ahve done New Zealand and possibly Australia services.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
i think their fleet consists of one 757 (V8-RBB) a few 737-200 & 737-300 and a twin otter (A3-FQL)
never flown them, but i presume they cover the tonga, new zeeland, australia, and other pacific islands area...
Select from domestic flights to all four main island groups in Tonga, with regular service to Vava'u, Ha'apai, `Eua and weekly flights to Niuatoputapu and Niuafo'ou. International flights enable you to travel to, or from Auckland, daily except Sunday, and once a week to or from Sydney. Royal Tongan Airlines passenger may also travel to or from Nadi via code share with Air Pacific.
The fleet consists of a B757 (to Auckland and Sydney) and a Shorts 360 flying boxcar (domestic services).
Does anyone know if this jet belonged to Garuda, Malaysian. The work Keluar appears above the Exit sign (see the first pic). I remember seeing that on all Malaysian jets. I mentioned Garuda because Flying Dutchman said they welcomed him with Selamat Datang also used on MH.
According to a Dutch website who's quoting the Tongan daily Matangi Tonga, Royal Tongan Airlines has already or is about to do it's last international flight. The website reports the B757 will return to Brunei and Royal Tongan will only do domestic flights. Reason for discontinuation are the losses Royal Tongan made on its international flight (personally I'm not suprised as the B757 was standing idle two days during my three days spotting trip at AKL).
