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Not a pleasent experience To be honest...this is a well known issue in the travel industry not limited to TUI or SN or any other airline. Whenever you book via a third party like e.g. Cheap flights.nl, kiwi or eDreams and alike the booking system notes as personal emailadress e.g info@edreams.com in...

According to this article on Hln.be (in dutch) ; 185 passengers of Brussels Airlines are stuck for already two days on Tenerife. Summary: The flight was cancelled after the aircraft's tires were damaged during take-off by FOD. Today a new flight was planned but after several hours it became clear th...

According to this article on De Tijd (in dutch) ; Brussels Airlines weighs on Lufthansa results. Summary: Interruption due to extreme weather and strikes such as at Brussels Airlines weighed on the results of Lufthansa in the second quarter, according to the half-year figures. The division with Euro...

According to this article on Hln (in dutch) ; The number of complaints about ANR drops. Summary: Antwerp Airport received 64 percent less complaints from local residents than in the same period in 2017, although traffic increased. One resident sent 14 complaints. Some local politicians remain scepti...

According to this article (Dutch) the new 737 MAX of TUI fly will have no inflight screens anymore as opposed to their current fleet. :shock: As an aviation enthusiast I really liked to fly TUI because they have inflight screens on (almost) all their flights, not so for movies, but most of all for ...

It seems TUI is rather generous nowadays with indemnities and compensations…Maybe PR strategy? According to consumer magazine Test-Aankoop (Dutch) TUI pays €60/day/pax for delayed luggage due to the luggage belt failures at BRU Airport this month which was actually force majeur. SN and other airline...

Let's end the discussion and focus on Brussels Airlines again :-) Well, there is an interesting new fact indeed - which I have already mentionned a few days ago: the Brussels Airlines nv/sa annual account 2017 has been published. If president Trump would comment on it, he would say: "it's not ...

I heard that TUI is installing a brand new 737 NG FTD simulator made in Belgium in their new building in Zaventem. Thought I read it before & found it -> It was mentioned last year in the news section: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/tui-fly-belgium/tui-fly-belgium-creates-new-pilot-training...

According to L'Echo and De Tijd, 200 jobs will be made redundant at Brussels Airlines and 50 at Eurowings as a result of the integration, mostly administrative jobs. The people involved will have the opportunity to look for another job on an internal platform. Quote from article on hln.be: "Ac...

ASL and JetNetherlands launch Air Charters Europe with an Embraer ERJ135 based at Antwerp https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air-charters-europe/asl-and-jetnetherlands-launch-air-charters-europe-with-an-embraer-erj135-based-at-antwerp/ To give an idea of the fares of this 'new' 'Belgian' airline: a...

While waiting on that permit they could maybe focus on one hand on ACMI flights during the busy summer season. On the other hand temporarily move to BRU to take advantage of the longer runway. So they can make use of the full cargo capacity and try to make profit on that as it often is an equally o...

While waiting on that permit they could maybe focus on one hand on ACMI flights during the busy summer season. On the other hand temporarily move to BRU to take advantage of the longer runway. So they can make use of the full cargo capacity and try to make profit on that as it often an equally or on...

It's not clear whether this new airline is or is not part of the ASL Group. Does anyone know more? In fact, I do not even know whether this ASL Group has anything to do with ASL Aviation of Ireland, the owner of ASL Airlines Belgium and many other European Airlines. Two groups having the same ASL n...

New Belgian airline created by Philippe Bodson of ASL (Air Service Limburg - aslgroup.eu ) Google translate: Air Charters Europe (ACE) is the name of a new airline that the Limburg entrepreneur Philippe Bodson launches from 15 May. With its own fleet, charter flights and exclusive group tours will b...

Based on this article from last week on Forbes.com

- the shops: are they really needed? They are always empty, I honestly don’t understand how they can be profitable. Do you have to force people to walk through the shops? I use BRU 50 times a year and have never seen an arriving passenger entering a shop. You would be surprised...They often seem em...

Seatguru must be wrong: the width cannot possibly be 18" with 8 pax abreast! This site says the width is 17", too little for me: https://www.airline-update.com/seat-pitch-tui-airlines-netherlands-boeing-767-300er-economy-class/ There's more wrong: SN's Y seats are 18" wide, the stand...

TUI B767 33" pitch - 18" width Are you sure about that? I'm told that the TUI 767 OO-JNL is one of the very few planes in the world stacking 8 pax abreast ihttp://www.aviation24.be/forums/posting.php?mode=quote&f=7&t=63219&p=366609#n a 767 designed for a 2-3-2 configuration. Y...

Nice report! Business Class looks fine. Old IFE, but as long as it works no problem. Clean cabin, nice livery But this... http://wwwaviation24be-q41r3jh.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/4E56D575-3E7E-4042-B4E9-FE8FE040C7B6.jpeg Legroom in Economy on a long-haul a/c really is unacceptable ...

According to this article in a Flemish newspaper (in dutch) ; The runway of ANR should be moved 15 meters due to European safety regulations in accordance with safety strips around runways. Summary: On the Western side of the airport (“Deurne/Antwerp city side”) which borders a nearby street, possib...