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Not only aviation is suffering from the economical crisis: Eurostar (railways) : passengers minus 6 % for the first 6 months 2009, compared to the same period 2008. Comparison for the last 6 months 2009 will be irrelevant because of the fire in the Tunnel, end 2008. One afternoon train between Bruss...

The outgoing ALX104 was expected te leave BRU at 13h15, but that flight is now delayed till 17h00. Technical, crew in overtime, ... ? edit : the incoming ALX104 arrived (again ?) from Paris at 17h23. the outgoing ALX104 to Kinshasa, announced for 13h15, took off at 19h00 HBA was on time all trip. I...

Indeed:

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On a personal note, I'd say I would rather avoid KL, but comparing or rating airlines is not the subject of this topic or thread. So, let's get back on track. Well, it's becoming quite funny. JOVAN makes his statement, and nobody says "hey, it's off topic". I want to know on what ground h...

PAX do compare KL and SN, and find SN MEDIOCRE Can you please explain what your sources are for this statement? Seems you have access to passenger reviews that I'm not aware of. Because: - Startrax ( http://www.airlinequality.com ) qualifies both KLM and Brussels Airlines as three star airlines; - ...

Darjeeling wrote: A LCC terminal for what ?????

1. Today, 35% of all intra-European flights are LCC. Aviation analysts expect this will rise to 50% by 2015.

2. BRU has 6 % LC-flights. Other comparable airports have 15%

a strike is never a good thing. the pilots should know better then this but then again they don't have so much trouble in finding a new job as most ground staff in case the airline goes down Indeed. And let's not forget that a strike is not regarded as overmacht / force majeure / hand of God, allow...

This is the story that luchtzak-member Atlantis posted on 13th July 2009, under topic "IMPORTANT message: Brussels Airport". Atlantis was critized quite heavily for asking not to post "the secret" on luchtzak, untill Brussels Airport announced it. Which they have done today. It w...

On Wednesday 09/09, the trade court in Bratislava has declared SkyEurope bankrupt.

(source: financial newspaper De Tijd)

9W's flight into - and out of BRU on Thursday morning is cancelled.

http://www.brusselsairport.be/en/flightinfo/

Press release EU: On 7th September 2009, the European Council adopted two regulations to improve the performance and safety of the European aviation system - the first strengthens the Single European Sky legislation (3640/09), while the second extends the tasks of the European Aviation Safety Agency...

Scott Carson, head of Boeing Comercial aircraft, is to retire end 2009 and his successor has already taken the place : http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/09/03/331829/carson-departure-closes-boeing-chapter.html Carson does not deny that the failure of the 787 program is the main cause of his...

This report (1,05 Mb, 53 pages) is available in Dutch and French:

Directoraat-Generaal Luchtvaart - Jaarverslag 2008:
http://www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/aero/DGLV2008.pdf

Direction générale Transport aérien - Rapport Annuel 2008:
http://www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/aero/DGTA2008.pdf

Brussels airlines will suspend its own operations to Helsinki but will introduce codeshare cooperation to Helsinki via Frankfurt. Codeshare with Finnair will bend the 25th of October. Not really a suprise with sometimes a very poor loadfactor on those flights. Brussels Airlines is Star Alliance. Fi...

LH today announced that the final transaction of the AUA-shares is done : http://konzern.lufthansa.com/en/html/presse/pressemeldungen/index.html?c=nachrichten/app/show/en/2009/09/962/HOM&s=0 LH now has 90 % of the AUA-shares. Luchtzak-members who still have some of the remaining 10% AUA-shares c...

... Ryanair ... when you look at their Balance sheet, you have to conclude that they are a financially sound company: 3 Billion € of cash for a turnover of 4 Billion €, that's gigantic. Source: finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=RYAAY&annual Indeed : it looks excellent. It's almost as good as the balance...

(quote from SkyEurope's website): Those of you who have purchased flights with a credit card, please turn to your credit card issuing bank to seek refunds for unused portions of SkyEurope's flights. Payments done by a credit card are transferred onto SkyEurope's bank account after a period that has...

Today, we can see again an arrival from Vienna. Have the problems been resolved? (Flight has over one hour delay however) The arr from Vienna has been amended into arr from Bratislava on Brussels Airport's website. And the delay is again as we're used from them, since they've moved to BTS: 22h15 is...

On Friday 28th August 2009, the European Commission has published two press releases about this: 1. " Mergers : Commission clears proposed takeover of Austrian Airlines by Lufthansa, subject to conditions" http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1255 available in EN -...

Tonight's Sky Europe flights from Bratislava (= Vienna in time table) to and from Brussels are cancelled. Just like their in- and outgoing flights to AMS. BTS-AMS-BTS : 3616 / 3617 - arr in AMS 19h50, dep ex AMS 20h20 BTS-BRU-BTS : 3676 / 3677 - arr in BRU 21h10, dep ex BRU 21h40 (Other NE-flights t...