[1] It was established as the state-owned national airline of the country on 18 November 1974, with the aid of British Airways and its subsidiary companies.
[2]: 67 [3] Scheduled services began on 14 May 1975, linking Bandar Seri Begawan with Singapore using Boeing 737-200 equipment.
[2]: 67 [4] After a year of operations, the route network consisted of Bandar Seri Begawan, Hong Kong, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Singapore.
[3] As of October 2017[update], Royal Brunei Airlines served 18 destinations, ten of them in Southeast Asia (three in Indonesia, two in Malaysia, and a single destination in Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), three in China, one in South Korea and four more beyond Asia (Dubai, Jeddah, London and Melbourne).
[1] Following is a list of current and terminated destinations the airline serves according to its scheduled services, as of November 2018[update].