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About the expansion of the mid-haul and long-haul. Why don't take one or two A321 in the fleet? They have a range of 5600 km and can take 185 to 220 ( in a high density) pax. I think this plane is good for flights to Africa and they can serve one destination, point to point. They have already Airbu...

I'm a bit surprised that there are only 2 flights to Africa today. Is this the regular schedule or is it a provision due to the overhaul of the A330 fleet? Is 1 rotation per week out of the 21 potential for the 3 aircraft presence at Brussels required for line maintenance year-round? Or could that r...

So, according to Brussels airport's website timetables the 767 will become active this Thursday April 6th, in just two days!

Is the aircraft at BRU yet? Are there any shots? What is the scheme like?

I've now come to wonder if Etienne Davignon's "Comfort 2" class (this guy needs a communications advisor) could be meaning 6-abreast economy on the ARJs and perhaps 4-abreast (modular?) business, why not even premium economy at 5-abreast? This would automatically create more low-cost seats...

Just keep one thing in mind... VEX check-in staff is paid less than Flightcare staff... Flightcare jobs are not SN Brussels Airlines/Virgin Express jobs so I wouldn't be surprised if they start doing all their ground handling themselves. End the contract with FlightCare, they have to let people go,...

Aren't they going to paint the A330s during their upcoming (is it C or D) checks? What a waste if they will have to paint them again in less than a year to apply that new corporate image.

What seems to be the problem is that the unions have a heavy say in this affair (since apparently everybody keeps their particular rights and seniorities). Which means that, should an all new airline be formed at BRU, it would immediately be in a better competing position. I wonder if they're going ...

Gulf airlines are expanding their hubs to many more European branches yet BRU seems to fail to attract them despite the total lack of Asian destinations being offered. EY is active on the market but it seems that the ratio of AUH-YYZ traffic makes BRU more of a refueling stop than anything else. And...

Sounds like they're stealing the idea of the BEAP people if I'm not mistaken, am I?

...SN, is not capable of daring anything creative as its management is scared of investing in widebodies. So private companies, mainly estabilshed in the Flemish part of Belgium, are putting pressure for some help to create an air link with the country that will soon be the third economy of the wor...

Well, I'm from the capital and my background is from the South of Belgium but I like the initiative. Although I find using a regional official flag rather provocative, I'm happy to find a Belgian flag on the fuselage. Maybe you should try to reshape that lion to give it more modern (more gentle) loo...

Well, first flight of the year was in January flying BEY-MXP-BRU on AZ. Next 1 or 2-week trip to relaxation will be early April again BRU-MXP-BEY and back on AZ. Probably next Christmas another BRU-...-BEY time off. Not much else planned or booked but I feel like I'm gonna add some funky trip to the...

jan_olieslagers wrote:real pilots fly taildraggers
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I understand your comments and even share it but I couldn't resist to this one either: Real men hunt their food - are you hunting during the weekend or paying a visit to Colruyt?

Will the plans be in line with the ones of BIAC, to make brussels third airport in europe? Did they announce this officially? And third in terms of what? Pax? Cargo? Because if they did I think the airport needs new management. Seriously, in the best case scenario that already seems so unrealistic,...

We are all aware of the fact that SNBA is struggling with competition from Air France-KLM on the Africa continent. They have the option of dumping capacity to steal the market while SNBA doesn't have the pockets to resist any coordinated attack for very long. On the other hand, a new generation of n...

I was flying Alitalia from Malpensa to Brussels in the early days of January and we had an exact same approach. We came from the East over Liège and headed towards the airport. Then, to my surprise, we didn't land but overflew the airport and North Brussels, went West then South of Brussels all the ...

Next Summer, as usual, my wife and daughter will visit their family in Lebanon. Well, I crawled the websites for the best possible fare from Brussels (BRU) to Beirut (BEY). We've already used a dozen combinations and airlines on the route. And of course we wouldn't fly on Syrian Air's BRU-BEY-Damasc...

If I remember well it is part of the deal with Virgin that soon or late the brand name will have to be changed; and I think that was slated for 2006. So I wonder if they're planning to repaint all the aircraft at a future date when they have to rebrand away from the Virgin brand and eventually from ...

Are you flying mid-week or business class? Otherwise I'd advice you to either buy an LX ticket that goes beyond ZRH and may turn out cheaper (you'll be no show for the segments beyond ZRH, which is fine as long as you confirm you'll be on your return ZRH-BRU). Another way to fly cheaper is to combin...

The FlySN.com website of SN Brussels Airlines has a section on the left bottom part of the page with SN Destinations. It seems that the lists have recently been expanded with new exotic (sometimes very exotic!) destinations. However, only the few known destinations actually return a further page. E....