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Belgian politicians will never understand the airline business. Nor the importance it has for our country's economy, independence and future. Most of our strategic companies are in hands of foreign shareholders and holdings. Energy, airport, harbours etc are essential and should by all means kept un...

Not only 320s, with the SN 330s on long-haul and surely the africa-lines: even most of their business seats at several thousands of euros (per seat) are sold !! The revenue of these flights is at max , and still not being able to make any profit - for God's sake, what is wrong with the policy of th...

... Just that there is a need of responsibility from both sides. All group companies are doing lay offs - Swiss is preparing for something like 1.500 to 2.000 people, according to Swiss media - and this is coming by an already agreed aid scheme, high profitability in the past etc. It is simple indu...

Are we so proud that we will continue to put money in a bottomless pit? FWIW, the 'bottomless pit' is actually quite lucrative for the Belgian government! Let me explain: Last year, they've booked a loss of some 25M on a turnover of 1,6BN euro indeed, but they: - contributed more than 40M euro in s...

cathay belgium wrote: ↑23 Apr 2020, 15:44 Hi,

Ssssss sis austrian is dumping those needed dash8 !

Cxb

Also Walter Aviation, who was flying for EuroWngs had quite a few of this planes.

Prices will be low for this type of plane.

No, completely not. It was the period before the Dutch came. I think they took over VLM in 2008 and transformed it inti Cityjet. I'm talking the period before that. It was even not 8 year but even 10 years in a row that they made profit. The management was also very solid with a Belgian CEO The Bel...

I wonder how Air Belgium will be able to position itself while SN will face hard times after the coronavirus crisis... No where I guess, Air Belgium was mainly making money with ACMI contract (British Airways, Lot, etc) with the reduce demand those contract will certainly stop. Add to that that the...

Much to the frustration of our forum visitors too :-D Automated e-gates at Brussels Airport to be replaced after years of passenger and police frustration. https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussels-airport-bru/automated-e-gates-at-brussels-airport-to-be-replaced-after-years-of-passenger-and-polic...

Indeed, staff shortage is a federal issue and a widespread one in the federal police due to years of structural lack of funding. The infrastructure however is BAC... Tables, (office)chairs,... are all supplied by BAC, policerelated equipment (cars, IT, guns,...) by the federal police. And it's a fa...

737MAX wrote: ↑21 Feb 2020, 16:52 Oh boy...we have a winner.

And it not the PAX …...

e-Gates story , work-to-the-rules actions by Federal Police, upcoming sabotage-strikes by Skeyes-ATC's, and what next ?? Fire-men, bagage-people,... The Federal Police is unhappy because they have not hand-gel for disinfection, have to sit on wooden chairs (8 hours a day..), not enough means, not e...

e-Gates story , work-to-the-rules actions by Federal Police, upcoming sabotage-strikes by Skeyes-ATC's, and what next ?? Fire-men, bagage-people,... The Federal Police is unhappy because they have not hand-gel for disinfection, have to sit on wooden chairs (8 hours a day..), not enough means, not en...

JOVAN wrote: ↑13 Feb 2020, 22:50

TLspotting wrote: ↑13 Feb 2020, 21:01 Air Belgium is to announce the new destination in end February, however, the airline denies that it will be Mauritius.

My guess: Réunion

Réunion, j'aime ton nom

Although Mauritius airports attract 3,7 mio PAX versus 2,4 PAX for St. Denis Réunion

TLspotting wrote: ↑13 Feb 2020, 21:01 Air Belgium is to announce the new destination in end February, however, the airline denies that it will be Mauritius.

My guess: Réunion

Réunion, j'aime ton nom

With Air Italy, AtlasGlobal etc going bust, many A330 will go back to lessor.
maybe there are some opportunities for SN to expand a little at good conditions…

What who? What Sean said...patate My name is not Wikipedia :lol: Looks like Air Belgium found a market that attracts many french speakers from BE & France. CRL makes more sense than BRU for these destinations (IMHO). I hope it will remain a success in the long term! Of course they did, it was b...

[ sarcasm ] Yes, one must be born in a special raciality, to prefer facts and figures over opinions and daydreams. Of course.[ / sarcasm ] You would be surprised how false facts and how false figures can be. We live in the most Greedy Period in human history. Apart from this I wish Air Belgium all ...

Brussels Airport has released what is in my mind the single biggest mistake ever... https://btag.brusselsairport.be/en -it tries to generate additional revenue due to baggage handling taking a very long time. In other words, there will be no incentive in the future to speed up baggage handling! It'...

Let me assure you I don't want to go back to the 1990s with an airport run by the ministery of transport, but let me explain the issue BRU has... maybe it will open your eyes a bit more then… BRU is currently just an asset in the portfolio of foreign equity companies, who's strategic aims are to si...

It was a late afternoon flight. I remind you about the evening flight to JFK in the time of Sabena. This was the most successful flight they had. It was all the time 100% booked. A lot of those pax were pax who lost their connection somewhere in Europe. As SN was the only airline who offered a flig...