After two faulty Boeing jets crash, the Trump administration blames foreign pilots The U.S. aviation system needs urgently to restore the world’s confidence after two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets. Instead, the Trump administration’s top aviation official, goaded by some Republican lawmakers, info...

A little taste of "deja vu" ? Air traffic controller shortage in Germany : "Delayed flights because air traffic controllers are missing: The German air traffic control wants to prevent this scenario in the holiday season. It offers lavish payments for special shifts - but employees do not just want...

An in-depth article from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/boeing_two_deadly_crashes This is indeed excellent journalism. And Ethiopian took advantage of it, contradicting the arrogance of US congressmen blaming the Ethiopian pilots and pretending that American pilots could have ...

Another trade union goes on rampage: Brussels Airport, Border Control Police , non-Schengen. They let incoming passengers wait for one hour. Reagan style: "Fire them all and replace them by the military!" :lol: This being said, police is an activity where strikes should be prohibited, just like wit...

The flight departed from Frankfurt.

And FR24 shows the aircraft as being this :

brusselsairlinesfan wrote: ↑

16 May 2019, 19:55

Time to merge this topic with Eurowings in 2019, no?!

Just a minute, please. The AOCs are not going to be merged any time soon!

Norwegian to lease a B767 from euroAtlantic Airways until 31 August 2019, covering various services to/from Oslo.

A judge has just ruled that Belgian ANSP skeyes will have to pay €10,000 per flight (or €20,000 for long-haul routes) to Brussels Airlines if the airline has to cancel, divert or delay flights by more than one hour due to ATC strikes between tomorrow and 26 May. Brussels Airlines claims that it lost...

A very good article (as usual) from Dominic Gates in The Seattle Times, analysing the possibility of pilot errors in the two recent 737 MAX crashes: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/how-much-was-pilot-error-a-factor-in-the-boeing-737-max-crashes/ Starting with a very arrogant s...

skeyes: Pas de renégociation de l'accord, la concertation prévue aura lieu Jeudi 16 mai 2019 Lorsque l'accord social de skeyes a été conclu le 10 mai dernier, il a été convenu que l'accord serait élaboré en concertation entre la direction et les syndicats. Au début de cette semaine, la direction a ...

April 2019 figures compared to April 2018:

Pax: 918,967 (-0.2%) - Detail: -1.3% in Europe, +7.1% on North Atlantic, +14.4% Africa
LF: 83% (+0.2%)

It's time for the Government to act and impose a minimum service rule, like at the Belgian Railways and the Walloon TEC (which just got a 1M euro fine because it did not carry out that minimum service in some regions on 14 May). And in case of a wildcat strike (= illegal), the strikers (or their uni...

Aeroflot pays out nearly $700,000 compensation after SSJ100 crash-landing https://www.ruaviation.com/news/2019/5/16/13514/ A criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Article 263 of Russia’s Criminal Code (violation of the rules of air traffic safety and operation of aircraft entailing the negligent ...

This morning, Boeing representation for EU and NATO informed us of the following: Boeing has completed development of the software update, associated simulator testing and our engineering test flight. To date, Boeing has flown the updated software on the 737 MAX for more than 360 hours on 207 flight...

Brussels Airlines estimates that the losses due to strikes at skeyes amount to at least 4 million euros. This could well mean the difference between being profitable or not at the end of the year!

Transavia flew in 2015 I think or maybe later from Munich to Brussels, with 3 flights per week if I remind well. They left BRU since. But frequency was really poor next to the +- 46 flights per week... Transavia had scheduled twice-daily flights from a new base in Munich. I even booked a daily retu...

Actually, with Lufthansa controlling BRU’s main carrier, Lufthansa avoids competition on their very busy and very high yield routes BRU-FRA and BRU-MUC. Are you sure about that? Usually, airlines offer a very good deal to connecting pax, to the point that the "feeding" leg doesn't bring much money,...

I heard a rumour about a 7th icon livery that would be presented in june. Any confirmation on this? During the presentation of the 6th icon, SN staff indeed indicated plans for a 7th icon, not in June, but some time in 2020. [Ironic mode on] Eurowings flies you to the home of the European Commissio...

My bet? Uncertainty about Brussels Airlines long haul plans… Cheers, Stij What were the SN long haul plans ? And does have BRU a plan B...if SN into EW disappears...? That’s It... no SN expansion simply means no BRU expansion ! Nature hates vacuum. If SN disappears, many vultures are ready to swall...