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Bandar Seri Begawan – From October 26, Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) will be introducing a schedule that will improve connectivity for passengers traveling to and from its regional, Australian and New Zealand destinations.

According to a press release, ever since increasing the flight frequencies to Australia last June, RBA has seen a 24 per cent increase of Australian passengers traveling to Southeast Asian destinations. With the upcoming schedule, the airline hopes to further boost this number of passengers.

"As part of RBA's strategic move to focus on its core network, the airline will change some timings to increase connectivity to other destinations," said Wong Peng Hoon, Senior Vice President of Commercial (Sales and Marketing).

The airline will add one extra flight to Bangkok, thereby providing a total of eight flights a week

with daytime and evening departures. The split timings of the schedule are to facilitate connections for onward journeys to Europe from the Thai capital.

Additionally, improvements in timings will allow for better connectivity to and from regional and North Asia flights. Furthermore, earlier departure times to Kuching on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays will eliminate long transit times. Flights to Surabaya will also operate on split timings, in which departure flights will either take place in the morning or evening for better connectivity with regional and North Asia destinations.

With its upcoming schedule, RBA will offer more options, shorter transit times and more streamlined connectivity’s to other destinations in order to provide better accessibility to Brunei. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin