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The Belgian Air Force withaws from service another C-130. (CH-04) Only 7 left. https://www.belgiandefencenews.be/news/un-quatrieme-c-130-retire-du-service-il-en-reste-sept-tous-a-vendre/ It is planned that all C-130's would have left the BAF fleet by 31.12.2021. I wonder how many operational A400M's...

5 F-16s will launch tricolour fumes 5 f-16's only? I thought there had to be 2 planes per colour of the flag to avoid that a colour would be missing if one of the pods doesn't work, like happened years ago. This used to be the task of the Alpha-jets; did the F-16's already do this 'tricolour' thing?

Your friend was very lucky to leave! Denmark is only open to Swedes from Skaane/Scania (the southern part of Sweden), the rest of the country is "closed" for Denmark unless it's absolutely necessary for travel. CPH airport is much more convenient for all of Sweden south of Gothenburg as t...

Talking about which, can somebody enlighten us on load factors these days ? I realize that a low LF risks depriving us from this feud on how criminal it is to force people to travel in these terribly confined spaces but ... No idea about LF, but I seem to have read a few days ago that most flights ...

Thanks for sharing your experience of this trip. Someone I know came back from Sweden via CPH last friday. The first part of her journey was by train from the Swedish city she lives and works.After a train change in Lund, there was a direct train to Copenhagen airport. Upon arrival at the CPH-airpor...

Let's assume that it's true, and I very much doubt it. Why could it not be true. 1. It's in the interest of the leasing companies aswell that SN stays alive . I can imagine that talking to the leasing companies to obtain lower rates was one of the first things mr Dierickx had in mind mid march when...

Next monday,29th of June, will see the last formation flight of the Alouette III of the BAF. So these useful and cheap birds will soon be going for retirement,it seems; No replacement? So the Belgian navy will have to depend on the reliability of the 4 NH-90 only for all their missions.... https://t...

Does anyone know if the SN-planes are carrying CARGO these days?(and hence hopefully generating some extra revenue)
Or is Lufty chaneling every piece of freight originating in Belgium or SN's destinations they can get hold of through Frankfurt?

by Passenger » 08 Jun 2020, 15:18 Flanker2 wrote: ↑ 08 Jun 2020, 11:50 Sure, some funds are coming in with the new bookings, but how long will they last and how much do they already owe to suppliers and others (accounts payable) that they haven't paid yet? Is LH giving them any funds? This morning,...

Swissport - BRU filed for bankruptcy today. What will be the impact on the re-start of SN's operations next week? https://www.hln.be/in-de-buurt/zaventem/swissport-vraagt-faillissement-aan-voor-grondafhandeling-brussels-airport-1-500-banen-op-de-helling~a0737d7e/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=pu...

SN already adjusted their schedules many times and I can feel that they are itching to postpone flights. As I said earlier, I had bookings with Easyjet and Transavia and they were cancelled while route relaunches are being postponed week after week due to low bookings. Well, if we may rely on last ...

And first SN flight to China:
STD 14.00 BEL9933 A333 OO-SFG to TAO

SN9933 on its way to the Far East indeed. As per FR24 bird used is OO-SFX.

Considering the SN Flight number used , are all those Belgian planes going empty i.e.without cargo to China?

https://www.flightradar24.com/BEL9933/24967e1e

The list of unusual destinations for belgian airlines continues…

Air Belgium's OO-ABA seems to be on its way to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

https://www.flightradar24.com/ABB855P/2494bdeb

And another pic as twittered by niki Terzakis.

A340 pax as full cargo and being loaded manually in China.

The corona crisis sometimes provides for extraordinary itineraries due to the shortage of cargo aircraft. TUIfly Belgium B787 OO-LOE is currently flying over the Indian Ocean between Seoul Incheon (ICN/RKSI) and La Réunion (RUN/FMEE) as JAF8504! The origin of the cargo was Guangzhou. https://www.fl...

It seems Air Belgium removed the passenger seats from (all?) their A340's.
Working as a 'cargo' airline now...

https://twitter.com/Airbelgium/status/1 ... 24992?s=20

It seems some sort of air bridge was established between Hangzhou in China and OST; This week alone I counted already some 6 incoming flights by B737 of Ukrainian Sky Up airlines.(5 different planes UR-SQC,SQH,SQJ,SQF,SQB;...) Passengers planes, but all capable of carrying 19 tons of cargo, accordin...

Post by brabel » 16 May 2020, 13:51 So, destinations to be axed are especially south and east Europe. No more Warsaw, Krakow, Vilnius, Zagreb, St-Petersburg... The hole east is now without SN present... That's a shame. I seem to have read somewhere that Warsaw and Vilnius will stay, but at reduced ...

no problem.thks.

by Ge203 » 15 May 2020, 09:25

ACE, BLL, BRS, CHQ, CLY, PMO,CTA, FNC,FSC, HAJ, HRG, SNI, KGS, KRK, LED, LEI, RAK, RHO, SVO, SVQ, VLC, ZAD, ZAG and ZTH for the short/medium-haul
CKY and OUA for the long-haul.

Thanks. Which airport is meant by SNI?