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nordikcam wrote: ↑11 Feb 2024, 16:03 I guess if they're putting an A320 on BHX this Sunday afternoon it's because there's demand one way or the other...it's not for pure pleasure

Not necessarily, could be operational!

cathay belgium wrote: ↑10 Feb 2024, 16:04 Hi,

Ni direct SN flights to BHX !!! WTF !!!?????

Why ???

Praying for Easyjjet to step in now. ??!!!!!!!!

What's going on ???? BHX is already served by BA,BMI,SN in the past and now nothing ???

CXB

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001337.htm

DannyVDB wrote: ↑08 Feb 2024, 18:02 Do these figures include 'regular' retirement?

Knowing attrition is a problem, the spokesperson would have certainly mentioned retirement.
There was a big wave of forced early retirement during the 2020 reorganisation, so not many, if any, SN pilots are eligible for retirement in the coming years.

longwings wrote: ↑07 Feb 2024, 21:35

Lux_avi wrote: ↑07 Feb 2024, 19:34Hiring new guys is difficult. Especially at the conditions Belgian airlines offer.

Can/do they offer training bonds?

They impose training bonds indeed, but even that doesn’t seem to stop the brain drain.

problem no need to offer better conditions you can find the people you need. :lol: Don't take me wrong here if it's necessary they could for sure but this is another debate. A friend was recently invited to a SN direct entry captain selection: out of the 5 candidates 3 made it to the second day, ou...

I understand the W-pattern Crew1990 explains, but they'll need a crew to do the BRU-BOS leg and afterwards again a crew doing BOS-BRU. Quite a costly operation, no? You, clearly, don’t understand! Example of an IAH based crew duty: Day 1: IAH-BRU Day 3: BRU-BOS Day4: BOS-BRU Day6: BRU-IAH. Why woul...

convair wrote: ↑30 Jan 2024, 21:10 Just guessing: SN465's (SFG) diversion to BJM today might (!?) indicate it's bringing a piece of equipment; maybe a replacement engine following a bird strike.

And where would they put a spare engine?

Star was not the only alliance. Qualiflyer was another one. So good that the high flyers of it ended up as LH subsidiaries. Not at all, Qualiflyer disappeared when Swissair and Sabena went bankrupt 22 years ago! You didn't got the irony? The grass is not greener somewhere else. Your irony doesn’t m...

oldblueeyes wrote: ↑25 Jan 2024, 16:02
Star was not the only alliance.

Qualiflyer was another one. So good that the high flyers of it ended up as LH subsidiaries.

Not at all, Qualiflyer disappeared when Swissair and Sabena went bankrupt 22 years ago!

And the wifi does not necesssarily have to be offered for free, I'm sure that most passengers will accept to pay some extra for it (e.g. € 10,00 for the whole flight).. We had this discussion a couple of months ago: Hard to believe this indeed... installing wifi can't be that difficult or expensive...

It seems that both A330NEO's will leave the fleet: https://simpleflying.com/air-belgium-retire-airbus-a330neo-engine-issues/ Yup, it is a statement of fact : I'm the original writer. Due to many problems with the RR Trent 7000. However it is the first time that it is told that there are problems wi...

Atlantis wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 21:31

fcw wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 21:25
More non-stop flights, you mean.

With more direct flights I mean less triangle flights like now, so, more non-stop

Hence my clarification as non-stop is direct but direct isn’t always non-stop. (The triangular flights are direct but not non-stop.)

Atlantis wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 20:05 Exactly, main focuss will be Africa with new destinations but also more direct flights

More non-stop flights, you mean.

It’s not because something isn’t understandable at first sight that there is no rationale behind it, and every one taking part to the decision you’re questioning yourself about is the least qualified person you can think of, just because it’s SN… 🙄 So stop being concerned about our financials guys....

b720 wrote: ↑19 Jan 2024, 07:29 classy and fresh at the same time:

Depressing, sad and dull are the most heard comments on different forums.
The actual uniform is quite nice and fashionable, one would think there are more important tasks, at SN, to spend money and resources on.

Atlantis wrote: ↑18 Jan 2024, 11:45...
With the new tariffs started since last year for the next 5 years the most old and noisier planes will have to pay 20 times more to fly to BRU. And yes,

Out of curiosity, what are the landing/take off fees, during daytime, for a B734 and an A32N?

… there are more than 1.000 busses per day who are serving BRU. The new tram is coming, train connections are there from each angle of the country, new bike routes to the airport, etc etc Indeed! A couple of things could be improved though: later and especially earlier trains and busses, high speed...

I just read United, Copa and some other major airlines grounded their Boeing 737 Max 9’s for extra inspection of the specific panel/emergency exit that caused the Alaska Airlines incident. But what about Ryanair and its Boeing 737 Max 8-200’s ? If not mistaking, they have this same extra emergency ...

2022, 2023 and 2024 had and will have the biggest growth. 2022 had almost 9 million pax more, 2023 had 4 million pax more and 2024 will be around the same. 2025 and 2026 will have each 1.4 million pax more. But again, this is the traffic forecast based on the current reservations and increasing tra...

Why we can't place it here if one of the organisations is in favor???? It's related regarding the permit and why it should be all the time negative info here? It’s not a vote but an advice. Why would that be an important advice? As PttU pointed out VOKA giving a negative advice would be the same as...