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by longwings
10 Feb 2024, 03:19
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: BRU Winter 2025 - 2026: news, new routes, airlines
Replies: 28
Views: 15058

Re: BRU Winter 2025 - 2026: news, new routes, airlines

There are also strong rumors that UA could open a new base in a hot region, with Florida often coming up in discussions. This could be interesting, and practically our only chance of getting a connection with this state in the future. Only time will tell. Maybe. It was tried many times in the past ...
by longwings
07 Feb 2024, 21:35
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

Lux_avi wrote: 07 Feb 2024, 19:34Hiring new guys is difficult. Especially at the conditions Belgian airlines offer.
Can/do they offer training bonds?
by longwings
07 Feb 2024, 07:31
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: BRU Winter 2025 - 2026: news, new routes, airlines
Replies: 28
Views: 15058

Re: BRU Winter 2025 - 2026: news, new routes, airlines

I understand the W-pattern Crew1990 explains, but they'll need a crew to do the BRU-BOS leg and afterwards again a crew doing BOS-BRU. Quite a costly operation, no? W-patterns are very routine, United has had them on and off at BRU for years. Started after the merger but before Continental and Unit...
by longwings
07 Feb 2024, 03:57
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

Lufthansa Group will invest a total of 2.5 billion euros between now and 2025 in improving the comfort of its most expensive classes. This involves not only replacing business-class seats on aircraft but also investing in lounges at home airports, notably the two business lounges at Brussels Airpor...
by longwings
07 Feb 2024, 03:53
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

Does not explain why not take a bigger part of the market if it exist... Barcelona is a good example why not fly more if there is the potential to do so! Short answer, finite resources. Planes = more frequencies to BCN means less frequencies elsewhere, what city would you downgrade, and why? Staff ...
by longwings
03 Feb 2024, 03:41
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

Confirms my point; no ambition, happy to be an underdog. How sad for our national airline. Let us give everything to our competitors. Which competitors? Low-cost airlines? Pinky-swear you won't complain about the inevitable decline in service if Brussels goes full low-cost? This for a business rout...
by longwings
30 Jan 2024, 03:51
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

lumumba wrote: 29 Jan 2024, 23:12 I was thinking the same maybe they will be forced to sell to receive the autorisation to buy ITA?
Lufthansa will fight tooth and nail to keep Brussels Airlines, not because it is so valuable (though it is, to a point), but because giving it up would be inviting IAG to their backyard.
by longwings
20 Jan 2024, 06:01
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: BRU Summer 2024: news, new routes, airlines
Replies: 355
Views: 200798

Re: BRU Summer 2024: news, new routes, airlines

UA and AC are using from time to time the older ones but this bcs of demand and availability. With a slot request they have to stipulate which type of planes they will use, with the side note that it can change due to demand and availability. United stayed with the 787 for the summer season not bec...
by longwings
20 Jan 2024, 05:37
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2024
Replies: 406
Views: 111654

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2024

On a side note, SN contributes around 36,5% of the Brussels airport traffic at this moment. This is a surprisingly low number. Is that about average? Lufthansa, Air France, and British Airways all have about ten percentage points more in their respective home airports (and these are the only three ...
by longwings
20 Jan 2024, 05:21
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Replies: 1995
Views: 1005653

Re: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future

To claim otherwise is folly. This is obviously not about a few pictograms pointing passengers to the train station. If this is all you retained, no wonder you can't understand how unfriendly to non-locals the public transport options are. It would be foolish to think anyone would land unprepared. I...
by longwings
18 Jan 2024, 01:17
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Replies: 1995
Views: 1005653

Re: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future

Badly connected, not well connected. Public transport at BRU is designed solely for passengers from Brussels and its immediate vicinity and employees. Badly connected? There's from STIB line 12 which is very frequent ( minimum 4 per hour from Schuman) There's De Lijn all around, even a night line c...
by longwings
15 Jan 2024, 00:35
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Replies: 1995
Views: 1005653

Re: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future

First question BRU is well connected with public transportation!? Badly connected, not well connected. Public transport at BRU is designed solely for passengers from Brussels and its immediate vicinity and employees. The other question I'm not sure you will find another space in Belgium far enough ...
by longwings
13 Jan 2024, 01:02
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Replies: 1995
Views: 1005653

Re: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future

Perhaps BBL should read this: https://luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/3/airports/onderzoek-bijdrage-luchtvaart-aan-luchtvervuiling-blijkt-nihil?fbclid=IwAR1ZN1HMNsoRUYUwMDOBqHIlHExJaGNylP7VXNBzK2XwLcMC74_uuQzJf8Q The argument that another source pollutes more as an excuse for inaction is only ...
by longwings
12 Jan 2024, 06:42
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4815
Views: 2344490

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

Well, I can't remember whether a CEO is group 2 or 3 at CDG. If 3, then a NEO gets a deeper discount in MAD, and that's one of the most expensive airports (save for LHR, a class of its own). Even if the CEO is group 2, the NEO does get a bigger noise discount in CDG but it is offset in less than an ...
by longwings
10 Jan 2024, 20:28
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4815
Views: 2344490

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

Why has OO-SBA been deployed on short routes till now (CDG, LHR, MUC, FRA,..., mostly routes less than 1 hour..; except BCN)? Is this for crew familiarisation? As the engines on the 320neo are more economic than those on the 320ceo, I would have expected to see the neo on longer routes of 2 hours a...
by longwings
29 Dec 2023, 21:09
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2023
Replies: 497
Views: 332942

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2023

Homo Aeroportus wrote: 29 Dec 2023, 11:48 OO-SFG that was AOG at Abidjan since 10DEC is due to fly back tonight. Ferry flight.
What was the AOG? Engine swap?
by longwings
29 Dec 2023, 21:02
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: BRU Winter 2023-2024: news, new routes, airlines
Replies: 120
Views: 111357

Re: BRU Winter 2023-2024: news, new routes, airlines

For some reasons, no BRU on their list at all while here is no competition on certain routes. In LIS e.g. they have a lot of competition Sometimes there is no competition because there is not enough demand to have competition. JetBlue has less than 10 A321LRs and they're all based in BOS or JFK. Mo...
by longwings
25 Dec 2023, 03:05
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: 2024 Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI) latest news
Replies: 14
Views: 12127

Re: 2024 Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI) latest news

Ryanair are certainly very vocal about new destinations, but silent in all languages when a destination is dropped (but maybe that's true for all airlines). I've seen other airlines bury the announcements in one-sentence statements at the end of press releases about happier events such as new desti...
by longwings
25 Dec 2023, 02:55
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: EgyptAir stewardesses begin wearing hijab
Replies: 14
Views: 3573

Re: EgyptAir stewardesses begin wearing hijab

Of course they shoud have the right to wear a hijab. But passengers have the right to regret that, after so many years when it was forbidden, they feel the desire, the need, or maybe the social obligation to wear it. What passenger would "regret" that flight attendants have the right to a...
by longwings
24 Dec 2023, 03:17
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport compared to other European airports
Replies: 17
Views: 3971

Re: Brussels Airport compared to other European airports

You can compare. As long as you compare airports with around the same number of annual pax. What you can't compare are the inhabitants. Poland is indeed much bigger but much poorer in the huge country side they have. Population size is relevant. As economic standards improve throughout the country ...