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by RoMax
27 Jan 2019, 15:46
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

But SFT is a 200 with PW engine almost 20 years old?!? Is Brussels Airlines not switching to Trent???? 2 A332's have lease contracts till 2021/2022 and will stay until then. They get the new PY cabin (though with some small visual differences to fit the 'old' cabin vs the version that will be insta...
by RoMax
22 Jan 2019, 23:41
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2019
Replies: 1167
Views: 519402

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2019

First of all I am wondering how SN can improve its figures when they are dragged down with EW's horrific performance? It's not SN's figures that matter, but EW's. SN is and will remain a seperate entity, both legally and operationally. Totally regardless of the consolidated public Eurowings Group f...
by RoMax
11 Jan 2019, 20:34
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

OO-SFB will indeed return to SN this year.
by RoMax
04 Jan 2019, 23:04
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2019
Replies: 1167
Views: 519402

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2019

sn26567 wrote: 04 Jan 2019, 17:44 For 2018 Brussels Airlines announced 750 new jobs, but hired only 350 employees for the full year.

Such forecasts are highly unpredictable.
The forecast of 750 included new DUS based staff, 350 was the number for Brussels.

2018 was also the first year that SN exceeded 4000 employees.
by RoMax
30 Dec 2018, 22:13
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

...well let's rather say that this is what the internal communication dept of SN says of it. ;) I've rarely seen an airline choosing a seat that isn't yet certified but that still is for sale on the market. :? It actually happens all the time. Each time something is changed to the basic off the she...
by RoMax
22 Dec 2018, 15:19
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

SFM did probably last regularl flight on december 19. It's the second oldest A333 already operational. The end of a long story in SN fleet (just 2 years forAir Inter previously to go for Sabena) 3rd oldest, Cathay Dragon has the 2 oldest operating Those were manufactured earlier, but SFN, O and M h...
by RoMax
01 Dec 2018, 23:53
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

Thank you André .. sorry for the link problem, just found out about it now. Spohr repeats what is unfortunately already known. Each airline of the group must finance its equipment separately. No policy, no investment for sn except the routine thing. It's not so much the financing an sich, it's a ma...
by RoMax
14 Nov 2018, 20:24
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

I wonder what's the reason of OO-SFJ and OO-SCX operating Brussels Airlines flights. Is LH/EW testing the waters? Or is LH/EW supporting SN in their fleet renewal/issues and thus avoiding a more expensive ad-hoc external lease of equipment? SFY is in C check and SFZ is still AOG. So SN simply has a...
by RoMax
06 Nov 2018, 22:21
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

OK, I note that SFN is being replaced by SFC (already flying since the summer). But, noting that SFY is "parked" at LIS (reason?) and that today both SFT and SFZ are AOG at BRU, I turn to the SN list given for the LH group that says SFE and SFG were to join the fleet by October; hence I'm...
by RoMax
06 Nov 2018, 18:20
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

All that drama again for nothing :p Old situation: 6 A333's, 4 A332's, at least that's clear for all. Now then. Since summer 2018 the fleet roll-over kicked off with lots of things ongoing (early deliveries requiring temporary storage of several a/c, usage of SFC as 'hot spare' by SN until SFN would...
by RoMax
31 Oct 2018, 19:42
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Lufthansa in 2018
Replies: 93
Views: 32248

Re: Lufthansa in 2018

Poiu wrote: 31 Oct 2018, 19:21 I think you missed the fact it was a tongue in cheek comment
It's most probably just me, but I don't see the tongue in cheek aspect of his post referring back to a 'joke' he made himself in March by showing a picture today which is several years old.
by RoMax
31 Oct 2018, 19:12
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Lufthansa in 2018
Replies: 93
Views: 32248

Re: Lufthansa in 2018

That picture is already years old and regularly seen on LHG websites, press releases and presentations since several years. It even doesn't have the current LH and EW tail :roll: It's in fact the old version of the picture(s) commonly used today with LH, LX, OS on the left and SN, EW on the right to...
by RoMax
28 Sep 2018, 17:57
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: The CityJet Sukhoi SSJ100-95 saga is hurting Brussels Airlines
Replies: 160
Views: 43288

Re: The CityJet Sukhoi SSJ100-95 saga is hurting Brussels Airlines

According to a pilot, a lack of MEL (minimum equipment list) forces the pilots to not fly. Other aircraft types have a better MEL in case one or few instruments/items are not working. Interesting, thank you for that information. To my knowledge so far, it was "lack of spare parts". This i...
by RoMax
28 Sep 2018, 17:52
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: A further deterioration of the Brussels Airport website
Replies: 36
Views: 7526

Re: A further deterioration of the Brussels Airport website

I wonder why I even still do another effort to reply on these childish discussions but OK that probably says something about me as well xp It is obvious that it is not acceptable that part of your (key) destinations are missing in your flight lookup and I don't understand why BAC launches the websit...
by RoMax
19 Sep 2018, 20:27
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4563
Views: 2152543

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

D-AIKJ future OO-SFJ just came out from the hangar at Malta... And guess what? Eurowings livery of course... Of course, what did you expect? It's an ex-LH aircraft coming to SN purely for the purpose of operating wet-lease for EW replacing a A340. This has nothing to do with the ex-SQ and ex-CX air...
by RoMax
13 Jun 2018, 18:47
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: The CityJet Sukhoi SSJ100-95 saga is hurting Brussels Airlines
Replies: 160
Views: 43288

Re: Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 news

Good luck finding several A320's or even worse A319's now on such short notice on a FULL TIME basis (not just a few flights per week) without paying a fortune which is many times higher than rebookings costs etc (if it would be long haul, it would be something else because there those costs are many...
by RoMax
11 Jun 2018, 19:30
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

If the reason for the cancellations really was crew shortage, why not subcharter VLM planes, like they’ve done more than a few times in the past, to perform the flights? Something tells me they really are concerned... Exactly, doesn't have to be VLM per se, but as I said in the last part of my post...
by RoMax
11 Jun 2018, 18:39
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

Yes 1 single flight but one that requires an off day afterwards for the crew as do many of the long saturday charter flights, in times where cockpit AND Cabincrew is being called in their off days , every bit helps... Still the impact of that 1 flight is very limited on your overall crew utilizatio...
by RoMax
11 Jun 2018, 08:29
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Replies: 1342
Views: 318482

Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018

Jaguar wrote: 10 Jun 2018, 18:25 Probably due to the lack of crew and aircraft , hence the security excuse is just a smokescreen...
1 single flight per week, during the weekend. Yeah that must solve a lot if that would be the actual reason.
by RoMax
07 Jun 2018, 23:03
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Replies: 1937
Views: 910071

Re: BRU infrastructure: future

With the train connections and bus services (both not terrible, but definitely room for improvement on early morning and late evening and even weekend services) and planned tram(bus) lines (which already proves to be difficult enough) I don't think it would be money well invested to extent metro to ...