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by Luke777
02 Jan 2019, 07:09
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines pilot shortage in 2019 ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2529

Re: Brussels Airlines pilot shortage in 2019 ?

Theoretically spoken , yes, but any beeline pilots here ? They can confirm, irl, a lot of them have already left the (b)house... and some others are planning to... Who will take their places ? contract-pilots i guess ? There's not only the "green-grass", after the recent strikes, things ar...
by Luke777
01 Jan 2019, 18:15
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines pilot shortage in 2019 ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2529

Brussels Airlines pilot shortage in 2019 ?

Trouble is coming up as B.A. seems to lose more and more pilots, especially the experienced long-haul pilots are bombarded with job offers from other airlines at much higher wages, and not only from far east companies... As our belgian company is not able to compete these more and more increasing te...
by Luke777
17 Apr 2017, 21:00
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines OO-SFM to Ougadougou holding above Belgium
Replies: 45
Views: 10993

Re: Brussels Airlines OO-SFM to Ougadougou holding above Belgium

131.950 - no acars, at such close distance VHF voice is the most easy way of comm, even when transatlantic most pilots still prefer good old HF in stead of CPDLC wich is not reliable at all times. At longhaul flights, technical issues are discussed over satcom, most SN330 s have satcom telephone in ...
by Luke777
17 Apr 2017, 20:31
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines OO-SFM to Ougadougou holding above Belgium
Replies: 45
Views: 10993

Re: Abnormalities in BRU-ANR-CRL-LGG-OST in 2017

I am too late to listen...nobody of the enthousiasts here has an airband scanner ? At the company freq you would have been able to listen to the cause in stead of guessing...
by Luke777
13 Mar 2017, 21:17
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Replies: 4670
Views: 2242961

Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

Does somebody know for how long SFO and SFM can still remain ? The SFM seems to be the oldest 330 in the world, still flying. I heard that airbus does not have previous experiences with 330s exeeding this age. Rumours are that they soon want to recall the SFM in order to take it apart and use these ...