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Brussels Airlines will operate 5 flights a week to Kigali, instead of 6 (during the last IATA Winter season), from 28 October 2019 to 28 March 2020. The 6 weekly service will be back, from 31 March 2020. I don't think it's related with the arrival of Egyptair, in Rwanda, in April 2019, which now se...

Is any aircraft AOG? That flight was delayed >5 hours and generally TB had lots of delays yesterday 737MAX rings a bell? Well I thought that they somehow resolved this by getting all the white planes from Smartlynx etc. Don't think so. I just received a notification that my flight to Palermo at the...

Apologies, I thought these arrived on the 13th.
Thanks for the clarification!

The following flights will operate on Wednesday 13 February 2019: SN1278 Lomé – Accra SN1278 Accra – Brussels SN1482 Toronto – Brussels SN1465 Kigali – Entebbe SN1465 Entebbe – Brussels SN1202 Dakar – Brussels SN1300 Cotonou – Abidjan SN1300 Abidjan - Brussels SN1224 Conakry – Banjul SN1224 Banjul ...

Qantas has finally cancelled the remaining 8 A380s that it still had on order.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... rs-455581/

Lufthansa is looking at 787s or additional A350s:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -body-deal

I guess they will not be for SN...

Someone any idea whether you can take a camera with you (take pictures) and how long the visit is? Thanks in advance :) I was there last year, and it is indeed allowed to take pictures in the control tower (the training floor indeed). And I can confirm that those 10 minutes lasted like it was 1 min...

Just one question: Was the Mumbai route making money or losing money? If it was profitable, there was absolutely no reason to axe the route. If the route was loss making, then Herr Spohr might have found a good reason to take it away from SN, given his focus on profits...

Icelandair will increase the amount of flights to Brussels and will start flying with 737 Max 8 Reykjavik Keflavik – Brussels eff 15MAY19 Increase from 5 to 10 weekly, 737 MAX 8 replaces 757-200 A pity from a spotters perspective: So no opportunity anymore to see the beautiful Hekla Aurora or Vatna...

Just landed at BRU:

VY8990 Privilege Style 757-200 EC-ISY operating the Vueling flight from Barcelona

Boeing received a US$3.9 billion contract to build two B747-8s for use as Air Force One by the US president, due to be delivered by December 2024. I might be wrong, but wasn't it the plan to modify two 747-8s that are already built (for Transaero I think) but that are now gathering dust and sand so...

ANA All Nippon Airways to cancel 113 domestic flights operated with B787s between 06-12 July 2018, in order to carry out additional Trent 1000 engine checks. ANA will cancel an additional 176 domestic flights until 22 July to perform mandatory inspections on Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines on its Bo...

The FAA has limited the ETOPS flights of a number of 787 aircraft. In particular, it restricts the planes from operating more than 140 minutes from a diversionary airport, down from 330 minutes currently. It concerns aircraft equipped with the Trent 1000 “package C” engines. It was found that durabi...

Who would have thought that: another order for the 747-8. UPS buys 14 additional 747-8Fs, thereby doubling their 2016 order for the 747-8F:

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ups/u ... eing-767s/

Some reliability issue with the F-35 it seems: Lockheed F-35's Reliability Progress Has Stalled, Pentagon Told (Bloomberg) -- Efforts to improve the reliability of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 are “stagnant,” undercut by problems such as aircraft sitting idle over the last year awaiting spare parts ...

And it has been decided: Niki Lauda buys back the airline he founded: Air Berlin Creditors Agree to Sell Niki to Lauda Co. (Bloomberg) -- Austrian creditors committee voted unanimously to sell Niki to Laudamotion GmbH, APA reports, citing the airline’s insolvency administrators. Expect Austrian and ...

A major win for Airbus: Delta orders 100 A321 NEOs: Delta Chooses Airbus Over Boeing in $12.7 Billion Jet Deal (Bloomberg)  Delta Air Lines Inc. ordered 100 of Airbus SE’s A321neo jetliners, a deal with a list value of $12.7 billion, in a major victory for the European planemaker over Boeing Co. Del...

Airbus secured the largest order in its history: 430 aircraft of the A320/321NEOs: Airbus Seals Record 430-Jet Deal to Outshine Boeing in Dubai (Bloomberg) -- Airbus SE announced the biggest commercial-plane deal in its history, securing an order valued at nearly $50 billion for 430 planes from its ...

And more good news for the C-Series: EgyptAir buys 12 CS300 aircraft with options for 12 more. Bombardier Lands Second C Series Win After Airbus Backs Jet (Bloomberg) -- Bombardier Inc. is closing in on the second deal for its C Series jet since reaching a landmark agreement with Airbus SE a few wee...

And finally some good news for the C-series: a LoI for 31 aircraft and 30 options from a European airline. I wonder who that will be. Along with its third quarter results, Bombardier announced that a European customer has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for up to 61 C Series, including 31 firm aircr...