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An interesting podcast about African Aviation (I already talked about it). But this number seems particularly interesting. On one side we have South African companies which are taking advantage of the decline of South African Airways to continue to grow in Southern Africa. Qatar Airways which is sha...

BRU is a disgrace. One of the worst airports in Europe. Only the Connector and Pier A look more or less up to date. Rest is Sub standard. Ugly. Obsolete.Dirty. Worst ? Over 25 000 reviews on Google. Not 1 or 10 reviews but over 25 000. Average : 4/5 :roll:. I think enough to have real opinions abt ...

Some (quite) important frequency updates, based on July AIR ALGERIE • Cancels plans to increase from 4 to 6. AIR CANADA • Decreases Toronto from 5 to 4. BRUSSELS AIRLINES • Makes Birmingham winter-seasonal. • Decreases Copenhagen from 26 to 20. • Decreases Geneva from 27 to 20. • Decreases Stockhol...

Unsurprisingly, Amsterdal is the biggest market for Delta in Europe in terms of flights (up to 17 flights a day for 7 dest) followed by CDG is Delta's second largest market in Europe in terms of flights with up to 15 flights per day for 9 dest during peak periods. A real “base” (even if it’s not one...

Qatar Airways Cargo appears to have suspended all flights to Kigali. The flights no longer appear on FlightRadar and on the airline website. The Qatar Airways Cargo hub in Kigali will not last long or probably temporarily suspended. On Airliners net, someone claims that there are rumors of discussio...

A destination we don’t talk too much on this forum is perhaps Helsinki. What could be the reason SN is not flying to this European capital city? I know it’s not a star airport but traffic, yields and transfer possibilities are not high enough to fly Helsinki for SN? Sometimes hard to understand to ...

So you are saying the Belgium is poor country that is not strong has the others I don't believe that. This is not an explanation these are facts but why is there no will to make it better and bigger that's my question? Lufhansa is not stupid they also don't want to give market share out off there h...

I don't blame all critics, some are goods. I blame critics about the fact Brussels Airlines should be a big airline with a huge network around the world (North America, South America and Asia), like AF, KLM or Bitish Airways. The reality is the market (buisness, Visiting friends and relatives and le...

I quite often suprised to see so many critics about Brussels Airlines. I don't think that there are so many critics in Finland about Finnair, in Ireland about Aer Lingus or in Portugal about TAP Air Portugal. In 2000s, Finnair, Aer Lingus and TAP Air Portugal struggled and closed many routes. They h...

Ethiopian Airlines has just obtained slots for a service to Warsaw. The Addis Ababa Warsaw route should be operated via Athens by B787, from July 2024. Poland is the country in Europe with a small African diaspora as a percentage of its total population. But there are quite a few Africans who have o...

For the 49 years of presence in Rwanda (well that's not linked), Ethiopian Airlines will add a 3rd daily frequency to Kigali, from the start of the summer 2024 program. In terms of flights Kigali is one of the best served destinations after Dubai, Johannesburg, Entebbe which are the only lines in fu...

The general manager of Lufthansa Group in East Africa seems hint more flights to Rwanda could be operated in a future from the group. Not only will ✈️ Brussels Airlines launch a new service to #nairobi next summer, we will also increase flights to #kigali from 5 weekly to DAILY, starting June 2024. ...

Main O&D in Kigali post covid. It covers the period September 2022 to August 2023. So for the year 2023, it is not in full (4 months are missing) we would have to add several thousand more pax to complete the year 2023, on the most big O&D. In Brussels we are surely at more than 40,000 peopl...

Its better to fly"older"aircraft these days, new planes are not that safe anymore, too much hurry:quantity instead of quality! Not really Many aircraft suffered from problems when they were put into service, or a few years later. In some cases this led to disaster with deaths There was th...

The equivalent of the Stabel in Rwanda has published its annual book. 2023 is marked, but these are the data for 2022. The good news is that traffic has almost returned to pre-covid levels. Traffic increased from 494,955 pax in 2021 to 851,471 in 2022. The million mark will surely be reached again t...

And Air Senegal is already struggling due to technical glitch on their A330. They are currently leased aircaft

The aircraft was taking off, so probably a foreign object damage on the runway Interview with the CEO of RwandAir in Jeune Afrique. No big scoop. The airline plans to Expand the fleet from 14 to 25 aircraft within 5 years. Increase the number of destinations, the airline hopes to add more routes: fr...

Thus it's quite hard for Brussels Airlines to built a big hub. It's not 'hard' for Brussels Airlines. They are not even trying . And with 'they' I mean SN and above all its owner LH. LH wants to keep BRU and SN small by sucking all long-haul traffic out of BRU to their hubs FRA and MUC. Today alone...

I place it here as there is no dedicated topic for it. Mostly we compare BRU with other airports like VIE or some in Scandinavia, but we have to start to compare it also with WAW in Poland. Just to compare how hard WAW is growing: BRU had in 2019 >26 million pax, WAW had >18 million pax. Difference...

A RwandAir CRJ-900NG made a rejected takeoff this afternoon, following a tyre burst during the takeoff. No injuries. The aircraft was operating the Kigali Harare Cape Town flight. At that time it was operating the Harare Cape Town leg, with 65 passengers on board and 5 crew members. The tyre was cha...