Aviation24.be

With the start of the winter shedule, Air Holland is planning to fly new routes. The new routes are Brussels-Paramaribo (flown with B767) and Maastricht-Banjul (flown with B757)

<t>Holiday passengers flying from Mahon, Menorca, to Leeds Bradford, England, staged an airport mutiny after their aircraft twice failed to take off. The Boeing 757-200, of charter carrier MyTravel (formerly Airtours), initially developed a problem with the hold door. Then warning indicators lit up ...

<t>Jetair (TUI) and Thomas Cook Belgium reported today that the travel-sector is doing well. The first six months where bad, but since the beginning of July people are travelling more and more...<br/> Both companies said that the long haul destinations have increased with 10%. (North- and Middle Ame...

<t>According to Austrian Airlines:<br/> <br/> For flights from and to China, India, Iran, Italy and Eastern/Central Europe<br/> <br/> Customers of the troubled airline Swiss who have been unable to begin their journey following the carrier’s recent route closures are to be offered the opportunity to...

<t>The number of people who lost their lives in airdisasters in the first six months of 2003, where about the half of the number of last year during the same period.<br/> Between January and June there were worldwide 362 casualties and 12 accidents.<br/> Last year those were 712 with 18 accidents.<b...

I just saw on "Kanaal Z" that the former Sabena slots in Brussels are officialy SNBA (DAT) slots.
This is very good news for SN.
The amount of money for these slots was 25 mil £.

Air Holland is looking for B757/767 pilots as well as cabin crew. For more info .... www.airholland.nl and click on vacatures. Good luck to them applying ....

<t>After the successful launch of their first code-share partnership, SN Brussels Airlines and American Airlines announce that they have extended their existing co-operation on 17 new destinations beyond Chicago. All in all, SN Brussels Airlines will now offer –with only one stop- to its customers 2...

<t>Proposed new operator - Man Air is expected to commence charter flights from the 1st of November 2003 from Manchester to Cape Town, South Africa using a leased Boeing 767-300 which will be operated by Icelandair. A 757-200 will also be acquired for European charter services. A name change in expe...

<t>The Airbus A320 Family aircraft is the preferred choice of 57 per cent of airline customers, a survey of single-aisle aircraft passengers has revealed. This is 33 per cent higher than its nearest competitor. <br/> Skytrax, the London based aviation research organisation, conducted a survey betwee...

Air France announced a drop of 8.9% of its passenger traffic in May, with a load factor of 72.0% (-2.2 points) and capacities reduced by 6.2%. Air France highlights the fact that, out of Asia, traffic lost only 3.4% and capacities 2.9%.

This is the first Airbus 318 plane that is painted in airline colours. Frontier will be the first Airbus 318 operator in the world.

http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/show.cgi?107676

http://www.worldairroutes.com/Sobelair.html

This dvd will be released on June 20th

<t>Irish airline Aer Lingus Group PLC confirmed Friday that it is in talks with both Boeing Co. and Airbus to seal a major deal for new short-haul aircraft.<br/> <br/> Aer Lingus is looking at a single aircraft type in an attempt to remodel itself as a European low-fare airline. It ultimately intend...

<t>Passengers were sucked out of a Russian-made Ilyushin 76 over the Democratic Republic of Congo late Thursday after a door opened accidentally during the flight. Everybody was sucked out and is presumed dead. <br/> <br/> A Russian aviation official in Kinshasa said he believed there were 129 peopl...

Last month’s passenger figures at Brussels Airport increased by about 6.84% compared to the figures of April 2002.

<t>KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plans soon to increase the number of flights to Russia to 21 a week from 10. This year, the company plans to increase its passenger traffic from Russia by 10% from 172,000 last year.<br/> <br/> KLM currently offers seven flights to Moscow and three flights to St. Petersbu...

<t>Ryanair flew 1,474,338 million passengers in April, up 25% compared with April of last year. In the full 12 months to April 30 the airline carried 16,108,073 passengers.<br/> <br/> The load factor in April was 79%, compared with 80% in October. The company said Internet sales as a percentage of s...

<t>After suspending their Thursday flights to Hong Kong, South African Airways (SAA) says that they will do the same with their Tuesday flights. There are now just 3 flights per week between Johannesburg, South Africa and Hong Kong. SAA was forced to do so, because of low seat demands resulting in t...

<t>European plane maker Airbus said on Wednesday that it had launched a new plan to save about one billion euros in cash this year. Airbus Chairman Noel Forgeard said at the plan was on top of a 1.5 billion euro cost savings plan announced several months ago.<br/> <br/> He said the cash savings plan...