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A comparison between Air France/KLM versus Lufthansa/Brussels Airlines doesn't make sense. KL-AF is a merger. LH/SN is a take over. In the end it doesn't matter if it's a takeover or a merger. What is differen is that KLM and the Dutch government had a better position than SN now has. And this is p...

What is more important, however, is the fact that they are (yet to be confirmed) exercising their option now. They could have waited 1 (or maybe 2-some people indicate 2018 as deadline-) more year(s) and maybe buy the remaining shares at a discount, given the expected fall of SN's profit (if not a ...

In fact, if my name was Carsten Spohr, I would look into repositioning some of those longhauls from DUS to BRU. Sure, it takes more work to build a second LX, but that's where the money is. They're moving those flights to CGN or letting other Star airlines dp the flying. From a strategic point of v...

It depends per 'event', but usually after 3 months most of the impact is disappearing. Of course you have exceptions, but don't expect the impact on demand to last for more than half a year for example. I would usually agree, but hotels and Air France still report lower bookings to Paris (and espec...

Japanese companies take a lot of time to make decisions, but they don't easily abandon an operation once they take that decision. I hope that BRU will be very accommodating towards NH and take the initiative of offfering them a big concession. This doens't take Japanese airlines to take quick decis...

According to the Dutch website luchtvaartnieuws.nl, Oman Air eyes BRU as a new destination for 2017. Oman Air is currently expanding their long haul fleet and bought 1 slotpair at LHR for the record amount of USD75mln. Article in Dutch http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/oman-...

Why would they have to? Turkish is star alliance as well. They easily code share their pax through IST when they come to an agreement about TK maybe giving up on some LH markets. AFI was very needed to keep SN alive, but not to keep LH alive in the slightest The relationship between TK and LH is no...

A question related to this: why is there a need to even ask for slots in the first place? Because BRU is a coordinated airport and most airports are controlled airport for the full day (AFAIK it depends on a specific category, but forgot the exact wording). At those times, BRU is not full if I have...

I am not talking about Germany. The Netherlands and (Northern-)France and their O&D connections with the Carribean are exactly what I'm talking about... SN's l/h service is no less then AF or KL, on the contrary. With BRU conveniently located right in between CDG and AMS, SN could undercut thei...

Why not build the Carribean network out of BRU? More capacity than DUS (EW's closest hub) and better connecting traffic. Besides, AF and KLM are still full service legacy carriers, except for some price sensitive tourists, why would anyone opt to switch to some LCC? Because the Germans probably pre...

Never exclude the extreme options. Look at what happened to bmi. Ok the situation was different (LH was in a way almost 'forced' to take over the carrier), but the invested hundreds of millions in it and eventually sold it (and partly dissovled it) with a big loss. What they 'invested' in SN is pea...

The real issue is getting rid of Lufthansa. I don't know if and how they could achieve this, only thing I could imagine is dissolving SN Airholding, take over the fleet and start with a 'new' company, with the support of IAG, Brussels Airport and other interested parties... The can't as LH has the ...

Orenair will not return to LGG as it will cease operations as of March 26th and looses its AOC as of June. However, does anyone know who will take over their charters (or will they'll not return this Summer)?

http://slovakaviation.sk/en/news/530-or ... -by-june-1

Entering the Friedrichshafen market sounds like an ok idea. No competition from other airlines and a proven market (not a big market). Just putting in 3 airplanes is too big to start an operation. How do you define "proven market". Their main airline went bankrupt and the Germanwings flig...

I hope for them that they have made a thorough market study to avoid a catastrophic issue like their flights from Liège. Or better, I hope that they ask themselves, why can we [VLM] make FDH work whilst it was the nail in the coffin for InterSky? InterSky couldn't operate FDH - DUS profitable and H...

Wow, Portugal may re-nationalise TAP because of a socialist party promise? LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A battle is brewing between Portugal's new government and the consortium that won the privatization of the country's national airline, with the government insisting on bringing the flag carrier back u...

2. KLM proudly announced a new route to Salt Lake City. They only forgot to tell that the route to Dallas-Fort Worth would be discontinued at the same time. However, they did mention the suspension of Cologne in their press release (after spending almost the entire release on the 5 new European des...

Grant more traffic rights to the ME3? That's the last thing to do. OK, it would (maybe) compensate the departure of Jet Airways, but in favour of companies having low costs and high subsidies which will compete with European companies playing the game according to the rules. Don't they already have...

White Light wrote:I don't find any AC flights between YYZ and AMS for S16. Will AC pull out of AMS ?

The YYZ - AMS flights are still bookable for S16 (daily 333).

Still, I don't understand that the 9W operation at BRU, with their 4 daily flights always well filled, was not profitable...or was it brainwashing and the decision to move was taken for other (political, alliances...) reasons. You do know that 2.5 years ago EY already mentioned this? 9W does what E...