Real Tonga Airlines (Tongatapu) is set to cost the country "millions of dollars" in New Zealand tourism aid following the recent delivery of an Yunshuji Y-7 (A3-RTL, cn 0904). Wellington claims to have "real concerns" about the aircraft and its safety record and says it will suspend funding "until all of the safety certification is undertaken to a high standard." However, some sections of the Pacific island media speculate that the introduction of a subsidized domestic Tongan air service, to be operated by the MA60, which ultimately forced New Zealand-owned carrier Chathams Pacific (Tongatapu) to abandon its own intra-island service, was the real driving factor in the suspension of aid. A second MA-60 aircraft is expected to arrive in Tonga by the end of the year.