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According to the belgian newspaper "Le Soir" this morning : - SNBA make good profits in Africa and plan to increase their flights there, including intra - African flights -SNBA make losses on the european flights, with a load factor of only 65%, and intends to change its price policy in or...

I think it will be a question of price, first of all. And also, of the airport of departure. Ryanair is the only carrier flying from Charleroi. Not every traveller live in Brussels. For quite a few Belgian, Charleroi is nearer than Brussels (for example, for those who live in Arlon, Namur, Mons, Cha...

14 dec 2005 - Ryanair flight 6105 : Charleroi 0750 - Rome Ciampino 0935, Boeing 737-800 EI-CSX. Take-off 15 min late due to ATC delays at Roma; and indeed we did a 360° over il lago di Bracciano prior to landing. At Ciampino, there is still the twin piston-engined seaplane as gate guardian on the mi...

How does one count flight time ? Many possibilities (for passengers): -engines on/engines off -chocks off/chocks on -stepping in/stepping off the aircraft -beginning of take-off run/end of landing run As for me, I use the last one, and I have clocked until now 836 hours (with 634 take-off). Can anyb...

My flights in early european jets : Caravelle : Air France F-BHRB, -BHRE, -BHRF, -BHRG, -BHRL, -BHRP, -BHRS, -BJTP. Sabena OO-SRC, -SRH, -SRI Sobelair (?) OO-SRF Sterling OY-STC, -STK, -STL SAS LN-KLI Swissair HB-ICS Austrian OE-LCE Cruzeiro do Sul PP-PDZ SAM I-DABL Dassault Mercure : Air Inter F-BT...

My first flight was on Air France Caravelle III F-BHRL "Dauphiné", from Nice to Brussels, on july 10th, 1966. When climbing aboard through the rear ventral door, I was a bit apprehensive, as I had no idea of the inside of an airliner ! Taking off towards the east, the Caravelle climbed tur...

My flights in piston-engine airliners : DC 3 :: DAT OO-AUV, -CBU, -DVG, -GVG, -KVG Intra G-AKNB, -AMYV, -AMPY Rig Air G-AMPZ Martinair PH-SCC DC 4 : Spantax EC-ACD DC 6 : Spantax EC-AZY BIAS OO-PAY DAT OO-EVG, -FVG, -VGB, -VGK, -VGL IFA OO-IFA Balair HB-IBS ATL98 Carvair : BAF G-ASDC, -ASHZ, -ASKN, ...

According to the BSCA Manager (on the TV yesterday evening) there is severe fog statistically only ten days a year at Charleroi. It thus seemed more important to build first a new air terminal rather than implementing better landing aids - they had to choose, as they don't have the money to do the t...