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On 1 July 2004 we departed from Brussels for our summer vacation to Crete: The flight outbound was: Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) FQ4512 Airbus A-320 (OO-TCI) (picture found on airliners.net: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/600760/M/ ) It was one of my/our most enjoyable flights. Check-in went q...

@ André: Yes, I think too that C-class makes the difference, I flew economy with Lufthansa last year to Munich, and indeed my experience was not so as good. I also think that the light BRU-FRA is totally overpriced and due to the fact only that there is no competition in the air, but also not on gro...

No, I never flew the Lufthansa Ju-52, but last year I had the superb opportunity to fly with a Junkers Ju 52 HB-HOP from Ju-Air (an ex Swiss Air Force transport aircraft). This was one of my most memorable flights...leaving from Dübendorf (near Zürich) for a local flight landing 1 hour later at Dübe...

Now it was my turn to have flight to Fankfurt and back to Brussels: BRU-FRA LH4593 Lufthansa Airbus A320 D-AIQP I was lucky enough to have had a business class ticket. So my seat was 4A (just before the wing). The aircraft was almost full, mainly business travellers but also some tourists connecting...

Very good report as usual, André, thanks! Interesting comments about the origin of the food in the various statements made, I too think that the food should be Belgian and Belgian only. What a shame to serve 'Twix Bars' in a Belgian airline, where Belgium is the home of the world's finest chocolate ...

Interesting report indeed. I might have to go to FRA as well in late June (probably twice on A319/320/321)...I am not so sure though if I look forward to the flight when reading your inflight experience. At least one may see some interesting aircraft at FRA when taxiing. It is interesting to see how...

I had the opportunity to fly once again to London City Airport (25/26 May). Both flights were with VLM Fokker 50 OO-VLO (old colours). BRU-LCY: VG155 load factor 35%, very good and friendly service. I sat first on row 12 - but there were NO windows...luckily enough I could change (as there were not ...

I have flown with them several times but not recently - last time some 3 years ago...but I found their service then very good and friendly (one of the better ones)...it may have change though (my flights were before their coporate identity change - old colours/logo/name). I flew bmi baby last year f...

I flew with EASTERN once back in the 1980ies...on 13 October 1982 to be more precise from Montreal-Dorval to New York-La Guardia. The aircraft was an Airbus A300 N206EA (EASTERN was then the only US carrier to operate Airbus aircraft). I remember the flight only vaguely, the weather was not particul...

I change regularly and usually have the latest aircraft in which I have flown (picture done by me or found on the net)... currently SNBA A319 OO-SSG (my last flight is from 4 May - lunar eclipse) but it will change soon as I am bound for LCY tomorrow with a Fokker F-50 with VLM

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Helvetic Airwyas will cease its operations to Brussels, I just received the following e-mail: "You belong to our customers who have booked the connection between Zurich and Brussels in the past. Thank you very much for your confidence in us. Nevertheless, the flights were very weakly booked and...

It departed from 25R at around 17h15 - I had a nice sight of this rare visitor.

It was indeed a most interesting flight. The flight took off from Brussels airport at 21h41 (runway 25R) and we landed at 22h47 (on runway 25R again). The flight took us to the North Sea Coast of Belgium where several loops were flown between Coxyde and Knokke. The clouds were very high, and the pil...

I shall register too !
I would like to make some nice photos too...but it may be rather dark...any suggestions on which films etc. would best be used ?

Best regards

Air_Lac

Interesting report indeed. Nice to hear the MP was fine, as I had heard other, less positive experience, which was the reason why I elected to fly BRU-EWR-SJO-EWR-BRU with Continental two years ago (also +/- 800 EUR). It was a rather nice experience - but as you I found the immigration experience a ...

I read in the March issue of the Dutch language BCARG (Belgian Civil Aviation Research Group) Newletter that there is a rumour of a Tu 144 being bought by a Belgian Museum. This rumour is also referred in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144 : "Latest news is that one of the two planes h...

Of course the information contained in the official press release is an optimistic view through pink ;-) glasses. The load factors referred in earlier postings are more like it at least on the BRU-ZRH-BRU route. Also amongst the 44,000 first passengers there may have been quite a few having benefitt...

Here is a quote from a recent Helvetic press release March 12, 2004 100 days of helvetic: new Swiss airline on course helvetic, the first Swiss budget airline, can now look back on 100 days of successful flight operations. In its first three months, the airline has operated 920 flights and carried m...

I think the spotting facility, to be successful, would need to be somewhere in / on the terminal building, thereby you could also attract occasional spotters and/or spotters that have no cars and rely on public transport, but also arriving and departing passengers/spotters. You could also obviously ...

IF only these "IF"s would become true. Brussels lacks indeed such a shop, I would be interested: - in model aircrafts (all brands) - magazines (whereby a constant and wide variation, perhaps also of Dutch and German magazines would be appreciated) - spotting guides - registrations books - ...