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Just wondering :how can an airline be profitable if you are paying leases and pilots for 3 747's and in practice only uses 1 to generate income...?

The A-320 with 150 pax on board had apparently only 3(three) cabin crew members? Would that be OK in Europe? Can not remember to have been on a flight with less than 4 CC and an equal number of PAX....What is the required number of CC in Europe?

Traffic figures 2008 Ostend-Bruges International Airport In 2008, 199,958 passengers began their holiday by taking a flight departing from Ostend Airport. Compared to 2007, the number of passengers increased by 11%. Last year, 33,298 movements were recorded, which is an increase of 20.5% compared t...

VLM currently runs 11 flights on weekdays, four on Sundays and one on Saturdays. KLM Cityhopper runs seven flights on weekdays, four on Sundays and one on Saturdays. This will free up some VLM F50's for other duties. Will these disappear from the fleet ,or will new routes be operated /launched by V...

Informally heard last week that Boeing-engineers/Cargo B would be rather pessimistic about (economical) repair possibilities of Cargo B tail strike aircraft.(CBA) Could it be the a/c ends its carreer as a source of spare parts at BRU...? With regard to cause(s) of the accident: Cargo was offloaded a...

I guess STD 10.30 EAF-3693 G-CEAE B732 European Aviation OST-TRD is the plane bringing Club Brugge team & fans to Trondheim for their match against Rosenborg. As Club is also playing against Valencia, similar flights (OST-VLC-OST )are planned on 3 dec08(ETD10.30hr) and 4dec08(ETD 08.00 hr). Let'...

Traffic figures Ostend-Bruges International Airport September 2008 Comparison between SEPTEMBER 2008 and SEPTEMBER 2007 Movements 4,097 in SEPTEMBER 2008 compared to 2,242 in SEPTEMBER 2007 (+82.7 %) Passengers [/b] 22,914 in SEPTEMBER 2008 compared to 21,950 in SEPTEMBER 2007 (+4.4 %) Freight/tonne...

On October 1st, the "new "Twin-Otter made its first flight . That brief flight around the Victoria (CAN)airport was the first time a new Twin Otter has flown in two decades. The aircraft is being manufactured by Viking Air Ltd.,which bought the design and production rights from DHC. The fi...

In its 17th annual Business Aviation Outlook , Honeywell forecasts delivery of approximately 17,000 new business aircraft from 2008 through 2018, generating expected industry sales of $300 billion. 2008 marks the fifth consecutive year of industry expansion since the last industry slowdown in 2003. ...

Tata Limited agrees to become a co-primary shareholder in Piaggio Aero Piaggio Aero, announced that Tata limited has agreed to acquire approximately one third stake to become one of the primary shareholders, alongside Ferrari and Di Mase families and Mubadala development company. Subject to approval...

The US aviation industry, which had been earlier hit hard by high fuel prices, is now facing a drop in passenger traffic and travel demand as the credit crisis deepens and a recession looms at the horizon. Employers continue to slash jobs. More and more Americans are cutting down on consumption . Th...

World Airways signed a two-year contract with Allied Air to start up cargo flights between Belgium and Nigeria. World Airways will fly with one MD-11F 3 to 4 times a week between Ostend and Lagos and then continuing to Nairobi. Great ! It remains to be seen whether they will be able to keep their s...

The Jat website offers the following statement on 19Sept: With reference to articles published in a daily newspaper stating that Jat Airways (JAT) is on the verge of bankruptcy, JAT has the honor to advise its esteemed passengers and business partners alike that the situation in the national airline...

Ostend-Bruges International Airport Traffic figures August 2008 . Movements 3,587 in August 2008 compared to 2,784 in August 2007 (+28.8 %) Passengers 34,358 in August 2008 compared to 28,499 in August 2007 (+20.6 %) Freight/tonnes 6,887 ton in August 2008 compared to 9,135 in August 2007 (-24.6 %)...

Interesting pics fc. keep on sending.
What was the routing of the Southern Air B747?
Grtz

Heard today that the CARGO B aircraft in maintenance would arrive in Brussels on thursday 11 sept , from Shanghai .
grtz