Editing Royal Brunei Airlines (section)

===Pre-independence===
[[File:Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 737-200 Green-1.jpg|thumb|[[Boeing 737-200]] (VR-UED) of Royal Brunei in 1983]]

Royal Brunei Airlines was established (as merely '''Royal Brunei''') on 18 November 1974 with two, then new [[Boeing 737|Boeing 737-200]]s.<ref name="RBA History">{{Cite web |title=Royal Brunei Airlines {{!}} History|url=http://www.BruneiAir.com/aboutus/history.asp|website=BruneiAir.com|publisher=Royal Brunei Airlines|date=2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209214444/http://www.bruneiair.com/aboutus/history.asp|archive-date=9 February 2010|access-date=7 December 2010}}</ref><ref name="Oil">{{Cite journal |title=Oil-Fired Ambition |url=http://www.FlightGlobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%202870.html |website=www.FlightGlobal.com |publisher=[[Flight International]] |date=19 September 1990|access-date=7 December 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614234207/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%202870.html|archive-date=14 June 2013 }}</ref> The airline's maiden voyage was on 14 May 1975<ref name="RBA History"/> from the then newly built Brunei International Airport to Singapore. Flights to the then [[British Hong Kong|British colony]] of Hong Kong, and the city of [[Kota Kinabalu]] and [[Kuching]] in [[East Malaysia]] ([[Malaysian Borneo]]) started the same day.

Early route expansion included services to [[Metro Manila|Manila]] in 1976, and [[Bangkok]] in 1977. Three years later, Royal Brunei acquired a Boeing 737-200QC, its third Boeing 737, enabling it to reach [[Kuala Lumpur]] in 1981 and [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] in 1983.