RBA CEO Peter Foster’s Sudden Departure Announced
By CT Hj Mahmod

Bandar Seri Begawan - Sultanate's national carrier Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) yesterday announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Peter Foster, after a three-year stint.

The airline said Mr Foster will be succeeded by the present Acting Deputy CEO, Pengiran Yusof bin Pengiran Hj Jeludin, who will be appointed as Acting CEO of RBA.

The statement said, "The Chairman and Board of Directors has received and accepted the resignation of the airlines' Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Peter Foster, with effect from August 14, 2005. Mr. Foster will take up a new post in the airline industry elsewhere in a few weeks' time.

The Chairman announced that Pengiran Yusof bin Pengiran Hj Jeludin, presently Acting Deputy CEO, will be appointed Acting CEO upon Mr Foster's departure.

"The Chairman and the Board wish to express its thanks to Mr Foster for his hard work and dedication to RBA during the course of the past three years, a period of great activity and development of the airline's fleet, route network, and products and services.

For his part Mr Foster expresses his thanks to RBA's customers, staff and Board of Directors, as well as the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei, for their great support during the course of his tenure as CEO of the national airline."

Mr. Foster said the introduction of the Airbus fleet, retrofitted 767s, Royal Skies, the Sky Lounge, new web site and Internet booking engine ... are to our customers the most obvious manifestation of the improvements RBA has made.

Whilst new equipment and routes and hardware are important, he also underlined that the key factor in a service industry is the ability of all of us to deliver high quality, efficient and genuinely warm and friendly services to the customers.

He said that to survive in today's new environment filled with global challenges, "RBA must continue to improve service levels and yields whilst at the same time controlling and reducing cost". He also highlighted RBA's highest ever-recorded passenger load factor of 80 per cent in a single month that was achieved in July.

On a more personal note, Mr. Foster made special mention about the cabin crew, flight crews and ground service staff in Brunei and elsewhere for having consistently excelled and hoped that they would show his successor the .,same support they have shown-him. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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