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Artist Impression may 2015:

Finally happening? https://www.facebook.com/KLM/videos/10153726810040773/

And tomorrow press conference with MOL at AMS.

convair wrote:Someone here mentioned they will start receiving their 787s in 2017, a little late for SN's immediate needs, if confirmed.

The first 787 is on the FAL. Delivery in october.

KLM swaps 6 787-9's to 787-10's. Delivery 2020. No official press release but 'confirmed' via twitter https://twitter.com/KLM/status/633281225512341505 and a Romanian website http://aeronews.ro/boeing-787-10-dreaml ... flota-klm/

Ok. From the Airwork link: http://avherald.com/h?article=489d4c3f&opt=0 This will be an interesting report to read. What is the fuel policy at HV? Captains' discretion or is there a system in place to discourage taking extra fuel? Eindhoven refusing to accept a diversion - that's a pretty seriou...

EasyJet positions a 5th aircraft at its Amsterdam base. As from 26th October 2015, they will fly from AMS to Tel Aviv. And in December 2015, EasyJet adds Salzburg, Tenerife, Lyon and Grenoble. EasyJet says that this fifth aircraft will increase the number of employees in the Netherlands from 160 to...

sean1982 wrote:Mss was het vliegtuig gedispatched met een MEL item die de tussenlanding nodig maakte?

kwiekk wrote:I could see on my app that the route was from Goose Bay to Miami. The flight landed normal in Miami. Rare...

Problems with the center fuel tank

jan_olieslagers wrote:Pffff
..and KLM who have little or no African tradition at all.

It may not be big but do not forget the strong ties with South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.

Then the Belgian MoD must increase its budget if they want to add a new capability to their task. Air refueling is quite expensive to maintain. The cost for maintenance, personnel but not forgetting the need to train many years to make the task of air refueling 'ready' there 'own'.

http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten- ... oject.html

Its seems that Belgium would like to pay for the maintenance cost.

sn26567 wrote:I was wondering why easyJet, a scheduled carrier with a base in Brussels, still had not its own topic in this forum. Let's repair this omission.

Huh? Did I missed something? BRU an easyjet base?

Some more can be found on fb: https://www.facebook.com/groups/savethe ... 1/?fref=ts

And a vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuw0LJRSTmA

One must not forget that a twin-engine fighter is costly to operate (F18, Rafale and the Eurofighter) and is one of the reasons why the Dutch Air Force didn't choose a twin-engine fighter. We only getting 37 fighters on a budget of 7 to 8 billion and that is including discount because the netherland...

Hi,

As far as I know, G-FDZF, PH-TFB, PH-TFC, D-STUD are equipped with scimitar winglets.

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