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TNT, which first wanted to buy more 747, decided to hold the decision because they "can't predict the price of fuel and the price of carbon dioxide emissions by the time the aircraft reach the end of their economic lives." Interesting article: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aviation-and...

Of course it will hurt everybody, but not because travel is more expensive, but more because concurence between countries will increase. We were all laughing when the dutch came with some tax, but now it's our turn. The problem is all different if it's a european tax. I don't think the 10 euro tax w...

The tax is for sure not good for the economy of this region. Nor for other regions with an airport. The unemployment in charleroi is by far the highest, but at least they will less suffer from the crisis. Their economy is closer to the real economy than the service companies of flanders for example ...

Everything is falling. Dont focus on some narrow sectors.
Several thousand jobs were lost this month in Belgium.

Of course, I'm in the same case, but it's still fair to me.
It's still a privilege.

They steal the money to those who are rich enough to travel. Looks fair to me. But there is a collateral dammage : the belgian airports will suffer. This kind of measure is stupid in a country where 80% of the population lives less than 1 hour away from the border, and a foreign airport. The lost in...

I heard they are going to paris by plane.
This must be a joke too.

source: http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualite/article/452426/bientot-une-taxe-sur-les-billets-d-avions.html The gov is talking about a new tax, between 5 and 15 euro per flight per pax. This could be a very bad news for Charleroi, and Belgian airports in general. But neightbour countries do prepa...

for the first 8 months of 2008, LGG had 301.342 pax (+21%).
Nice growth again for the 3rd pax airport of Belgium.

I guess the strike in BRU and the fog in CRL helped a bit
Previous years figures : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge_Airport

well, fortunelly we still have some ministers that are in charge of the whole country ...
But I agree with you, that decision was rather stupid

The price is still quite ok ... until the day there is a train station in the airport.
To compare, LGG is between 10 and 14 euro a day (but increase are planned)
and BRU, between 17 and 22 euro.

mhh
funny but clever use of the plane
I wonder what the minister think about the short hop though

Good idea to open this topic.
A news that we didnt discuss a lot here is that the extention of the brand new terminal is not certain anymore.

I think it's a good idea to wait a bit ... the industry may change a lot, as fast as the finance industry ...

Dude it's the first time you take a plane or something ?
It's good you will have 2 takeoffs and landings
Did you try to call liege airport or you travel agent ?

This topic is not about the result of the past, it's about the expectations. Totally "crystal ball" again ... You can't say about aviation "hit hard" when you have numbers -1% There is no crisis ... yet But yes, i'm also part of the people who believe the worse is yet to come. Le...

there is not pax flight at all planed for monday on the website of liegeairport.
Doesnt tell if they are canceled or diverted ...

And no info about cargo.
I'm not sure MST would be able to manage so much cargo ... hard to say what will happen ...

omg this is ridiculous

Winter timetable for pax flight:
http://www.liegeairport.com/documents/t ... ehiver.htm

Growing fast for many years, congratulations

One more source in french, with a lot of details: http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualite/article/444517/le-groupe-sncb-a-bord-du-tgv-fret.html It seems that the project is getting serious and that Liège is an important part of it. Very interesting ! <rail and not aviation related> The main disadva...