Very sad for all people concerned. But not too surprising if you look at the figures they gave in the press release: 522.000 pax on 29.000 flights means an average of exactly 18 pax per flight ! Even if some of the non-profitable flights were paid for by their contractors (SN, LH, AF, Turkish,...) ...

I guess there will be some departures of governmental aircraft as well on 14/02 after the NATO meeting? If they arrived at EBBE, they might as well depart from there! I thought at least the "Doomsday Plane" was still at EBBR/EBMB? Plus, the GLF5 of Hellenic Airforce is shown by FR24 as "on ground" ...

I guess there will be some departures of governmental aircraft as well on 14/02 after the NATO meeting?

Herr "xxxxx" Spohr should take a deep breath and blend out his Herrenmenschen-attitude: at least Wizz Air, healthy and successful on the markets it serves, has for sure no interest in getting commanded by a bunch of ruthless and soulless technocrats like his kind.

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18 Jan 2019, 17:14

This is much clearer than the official press release!

Many thanks Andre! I tried to shorten all the news I found on the outcome of the press conference - and make them readable.

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oooh ok I read too quick, saw I in stead of IT /-) OO-SSA flew indeed from CDG to BUD with passengers and afterwards re positioning empty back to CDG as it's needed for the flight back to Brussels tomorrow morning in stead of keeping the plane the whole day in Paris on the ground they sold it to a ...

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