Aviation24.be

Is the range of an AVRO long enough to fly to tallin? If Air Baltic managed to fly between Riga and London with the Avro's then Brussels - Talinn shouldn't be a problem. As untill today there isn't even one airline thinking about it ( except SNBA ) ... only local airlines are also thinking about th...

It's a positioning flight. SNBA flies today between Munster and Lourdes according to the FMO website (will arrive at 19:05 as SN1126 from Lourdes). BTW while browsing to the PMI departures I saw that SNBA had a flight between Lille and Palma (A319). I must say that it's great to see SNBA manages to ...

I've some bad news for those who wanted to see the SLM B747-300 in the air by the end of the month. According to an article on a Dutch news website (URL below) the certification process hasn't been completed and may take until August before the Civil Aviation & Safety Authority Suriname will cer...

Isn't this the first step for EasyJet to find a new hub between AMS and CDG. From BRU they can start a whole new competition and maybe attract the AMS and CDG customer. ATC I don't think many people coming from the "Randstad" (the most populated area in The Netherlands) will drive all the...

If EZY do open routes to Brussels, they wouldn't be in competition with SNBA on the routes, as they don't use the same airports, with the exception of Bristol. They may not serve the same airport, but will put pressure on yields on similar routes (for example BRU-MAN). It happened in The Netherland...

A318, first the number of 5,000 employees has nothing to do with the AF-KL merger. Don't forget that the announcement was made just after KLM made a record loss and the shareholders then expect something to be done (and in KLM's case this usually means making an announcement that x number of staff w...

I can't give you the answer on the specific case regarding the AA/SN codeshare but can give you a general idea what codeshare is. The answer to your question is not simple. Codesharing is nothing more than putting the prefix of your airline on another flight. Therefore codeshare is also accompanied ...

Delivery flight may be through AMS but will touch base once i'm sure.

I somehow think it will be delivered via LHR as all the other aircraft (767 and 737NG) have been delivered via LHR

Surely, they must realise that they are playing with fire after what happened at Sabena. I don't think the AZ employees look at what happened with Sabena. They think too much about their own job and thus fail to realise that their employer is in a very bad shape and annoying passengers is not somet...

Comet, looks like you and me had a totally different flight. When I flew NZ001 last year my friends got the NZ playing cards ("we officially don't have them anymore but on a 24 hour you guys probably want to play cards at one point"), we did receive a very good meal plus the snacks and dri...

I've flown Air New Zealand LHR-AKL-SYD and MEL-AKL-LAX-LHR and I must say they're better than KLM on long haul as the economy seats in their B747 are just wonderfull (you really get to appreciate the important aspects of service when you travel on NZ001 all the from LHR to AKL). The fact that they d...

According to www.luchtvaartniews.nl, the recivers of the bankrupt Sobelair are going to sue DCA for EUR 3,3 million. They say that Sobelair ows DCA this amount in unpaid bills. DCA says that it doesn't owe money to Sobleair and that they themselves have a claim against Sobelair Source http://www.luc...

A318, I missed the previous discussion but saying that KLM opted for the A330 for political reason is entirely incorrect. To understand the purchase (or better lease) of the A330 you should know first why KLM purchased the A310, how KLM developped over the years and thus why the A310's role changed,...

Luxor Air has been banned from Dutch airspace following a check by the socalled SAFA (Safety Assessment Foreign Aircraft) team at AMS. Following this check the Dutch Civil Aviation Authority requested some improvements. However the agency says that these requests haven't been met and thus the airlin...

This year I remain close to home (just bought a house and thus don't have too much cash left fore travelling). So far I've planned a spotting trip to London and Palma (June 23rd - June 30th), a weekend Hamburg/Hannover. Finally mid September I intend to tour West-Turkey (three week tour starting in ...

Sad news regarding Royal Tongan Airlines.... According to a Dutch website who's quoting the Tongan daily Matangi Tonga, Royal Tongan Airlines has already or is about to do it's last international flight. The website reports the B757 will return to Brunei and Royal Tongan will only do domestic flight...

The B757 is based at Auckland and the other aircraft is based in Raratonga.

The problem with LP is that is has become too popular and although they still contain usefull information I read more and more mistakes or omissions. One LP about The Netherlands was reprinted due to the errors in the LP. However, the main problem with LP is that they sometimes advertise too much th...

I'm somewhat suprised by Mr. Cerfontaine's quote that "Brussels must not fall into the hands of a Skyteam competitor". The reason why I'm suprised is that Cerfontaine usually says that it doesn't want to rely on the operations of just one alliance. The current actions by AMS management eve...

Hi Frederic, When are you going to fly AZ? As ATC already mentioned, if AZ think they can get money out of KLM/AF they must be dreaming. I can't imagine that Leo van Wijk (CEO of KLM) is "giving money to AZ after all what happened during the KL/AZ joint venture. Anyway, British Airways has alre...