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Interesting read, but I don't fully agree. Most of the points mentioned took place in the past, and already had their impact on the project (delay and higher cost). I don't see what the inter-European competition between fighters has to do with it. What exactly is the impact of this on the A400M? Or...

The Antonov is a wonderful plane, no doubt about that. If it will ever reach production? Don't think so... Antonov can not show that they are capable to run a full scale production of a big plane since 20 years, the main problem of most aircraft producers in the CIS. Not a single Western country wil...

I understood the new Brussels Airlines aircraft is/was flying as F-OHJY: not privatair but National Air Services.

Bottie wrote:I had the pleasure to do the flight with Dick Rutan

I assume Dick is a relative of Burt?
You arranged the flight in advance, or managed to get it done at the location?
Some interesting shots you took!

tolipanebas wrote:not going to operate on a local AOC

If not on a local AOC, would they operate under the (Belgian) Brussels Airlines one, a new one, or a new one in a third country?

What about going for answer A in the list above, perhaps with a Portugal-Angola like arrangement...
I doubt there's an other way to convince the Congolese authorities.

As far as I know the Portuguese authorities are helping the Angolans to improve their flight safety. Might be the reason why they're allowed to fly to Portugal only. I think it's funny that all in a sudden Sao Tome and Principe shows up on the list. Any link with the HewaBora lease :lol: ? Apart fro...

Why would they need a hangar in Belgium? This plane is a dry/wet lease combination. Based on a 12 hour "call time", this means the aircraft doesn't need to be present in Belgium as long as the military doesn't need it, and that hi-fly can use it on other flights for other companies. So acc...

Anybody who can confirm the type used for the ALX flight?

sdbelgium wrote:basically they did "an Aeroflot" (who also register their planes on the Bermuda Islands, hence the VP prefix).

Just to be clear: the only reason Aeroflot did this was in a move to evade local import taxes.

From the European Blacklist: "Air carriers listed in Annex A could be permitted to exercise traffic rights by using wet-leased aircraft of an air carrier which is not subject to an operating ban, provided that the relevant safety standards are complied with." So if I understand it correctl...

Because Jet Republic is to stop/has stopped all operations...

Rumours are going that Avient has the intention to move it's base to LGG from XCR.
(credits pprune.org)

jdw wrote:Occasionaly it's towed into H41 for removal of bird's nests and changing the covering of the engines and cockpit windows (the black plastic).

So the owner is still paying for the maintenance of this one?

I passed there the first time as well last week. At the security they asked the people to take off their shoes. When I asked if it was necessary they had to admit they can't force anyone to do this at that stage of security check. Anyway, being a good civilian, I did. When arriving back home, I noti...

Also a good sign ... OO-DIB ( A300 EAT ) visited brussels last night , this means its operating agian Good sign? The fact that it isn't carrying DHL titles any more indicates to me that it might be heading for a more sandy destination than Belgium... It's an old plane and in current times it's not ...

Accry wrote:I officialy announce you the end of CargoB Airlines...

Even though it might end up like that, De Tijd mentions that Cargo B stops operations, but also that they are not filing for bankrupcy yet.
Is this information then not correct?

The Aviation Safety Network should get you started in case you didn't get it yet. Next thing will be to find the flight movements for these birds, which might be more difficult...

http://aviation-safety.net/index.php

As far as I know, the airbus wide-bodies (except for A380 of course) all share the same fuselage structure, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see the same mechanical layout in the tail as well...

Slightly off topic, but why not have it done by Lufthansa Technics now? I guess they already have the capabilities to do most of this maintenance.