VLM Airlines (Brussels, ex-Thomas Cook) news 2018

[airbuske]

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VLM is looking for A320 / A330 captains and first officers.
Primary work location: VLM Airlines Brussels - Brussels Airport.

So we can see future long hauls operations of VLM in Brussels?
3 bases makes it quite complex for a starting carrier, no ?

[lucas]

VLM is going to operate three new routes out of Antwerp. These are Bermingham, Munich and Maribor. The flights to Maribor will be flown with a stop in Munich, so they have the two routes at once.
All of these flights will be operated once a day, on weekdays with Fokker 50's, as of 12 February.

So no stopover in Zürich, which was announced earlier.
Zürich will be operated as a single flight from 22 January.

All of these flights start at a single-way price of €59.00.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/vlm-a ... uary-2018/
https://flyvlm.force3.be/vlm-airlines-w ... ruary-2018

[Boeing767copilot]

VLM Airlines will operate flights from Antwerp to Birmingham, Munich and Maribor starting 12th February 2018
Also new flights between Munich and Maribor
VLM Airlines will commence flights from Birmingham to Antwerp from 12th February. The airline will also fly from the same date two other new routes: Antwerp-Munich and Munich-Maribor (Slovenia). These new routes are to be added to the existing Antwerp-London City Airport route and the flights between Antwerp and Zurich, which will be operated from 22nd January. VLM Airlines is offering on all new routes one daily service in each direction with a Fokker 50 on weekdays.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/vlm-a ... uary-2018/

[lucas]

VLM is going to operate three new routes out of Antwerp. These are Bermingham, Munich and Maribor. The flights to Maribor will be flown with a stop in Munich, so they have the two routes in once.
All of these flights will be operated once a day, on weekdays with Fokker 50's, as of 12 Februari.

So no stopover in Zürich, which was anounced earlier.
Zürich will be operated as a single flight from 22 January.

All of these flights start at a single-way price of €59.00.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/vlm-a ... uary-2018/

VLM Airlines will operate flights from Antwerp to Birmingham, Munich and Maribor starting 12th February 2018
Also new flights between Munich and Maribor
VLM Airlines will commence flights from Birmingham to Antwerp from 12th February. The airline will also fly from the same date two other new routes: Antwerp-Munich and Munich-Maribor (Slovenia). These new routes are to be added to the existing Antwerp-London City Airport route and the flights between Antwerp and Zurich, which will be operated from 22nd January. VLM Airlines is offering on all new routes one daily service in each direction with a Fokker 50 on weekdays.

Haha, if you look to the time of posting, you will see we said the same at exact the same moment

[Not Real]

I just tried to book a trip to Maribor and there are still no flight available... But flights to Munich are available.

[AAI]

and flights MUC MBX are available too
so you must book 2 OW's
i think their commercial department has a lot of work to do!

[Shengenzone]

and flights MUC MBX are available too
so you must book 2 OW's
i think their commercial department has a lot of work to do!

Can't you contact them over the phone to book it in 1 ticket?

[Not Real]

Well, I think the idea is not to fly to Maribor with a stop in Munich on 2 tickets, but on 1...

[luchtzak]

VLM Airlines has a lot of open vacancies, the airline published 9 different job offers online: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/vlm-a ... s-antwerp/

captains / first officers A320 / A330
(senior) cabin crew
ground staff

[pitrixplanespotting]

anyone info about their A332?

[Haplek]

Well, I think the idea is not to fly to Maribor with a stop in Munich on 2 tickets, but on 1...

The flights between ANR and MBX are now possible to book.

[Shengenzone]

Well, I think the idea is not to fly to Maribor with a stop in Munich on 2 tickets, but on 1...

The flights between ANR and MBX are now possible to book.

Indeed and at the same fare as Antwerp - Munich or Munich - Maribor separatly.

[JustPlanes]

From what I hear they are training pilots to operate 2 A330-200s from BRU to China...

I can't imagine this will make Air Belgium too happy... since they applied for their AOC and announced service to China you have Hainan who increased service, Cathay on the HKG route and now VLM with 2 Airbuses to China...

[luchtzak]

They all say that there is the market for many airlines to operate to China/Hong Kong

[Yuqu12]

Which is certainly true. Brussels Airport themselves said that BRU is only the 9th intercontinental destination from Shenzen, so there are probably more than enough other airports where there is less concurrence for AB.

[sn26567]

Antwerp-Milan is "Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week" with 45,000 searches; VLM Airlines' next venture?

In the last 12 months, Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software has shown that over 45,000 potential travellers searched on the leading flight comparison site for flights between Antwerp and Milan ‒ but the city pair is unserved!? Resurgent VLM Airlines, based again at Antwerp, could be a ready-made solution provider, or perhaps someone like bmi regional might be better suited to the city pair.

Read the rest of this story in anna.aero

[SR20]

BRU, 15 JAN 2018

[Shengenzone]

New "Joker reizen" ad is filmed onboard an F50 of VLM.
https://youtu.be/4eFvLTVT8gA

[SLM]

Is OO-VLN under maintenance? (fokker 50 of Vizion) I can't find the fokker 50 OO-VLN not on flightradar. Thanks for some more information.

[carllegein]

The Vizion Air unit will be back in 2 weeks, no worries. Meanwhile Vizion Air uses one of the other F50. We love being partner of VLM!