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They will perhaps be in the red for some time, what about it ? I know an airline not far from here, also heavily subsidised, ... Let me guess : Ryanair ? ! Because that is the most subsidised airline in the world if one adds all direct and indirect support they get from regions and regional airports.

aircraft are PH-KVA (ex YL-BAO) and PH-KVB (ex YL-BAV). They are both stored since September 2012, so it’s very strange that Maastricht Airlines only now has found out that there is corrosion on one aircraft http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Air%20Baltic-stored-f50.htm (PH-KVA and PH-KVB were also ...

The court case has been dismissed today: "not enough evidence", says the Public Prosecutor.

source : Belga press agency:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenland ... eerd.dhtml

There is some news about CS-TMT: at the end of the year, the leasing contract ends. There was a discussion in the Defence commission from the Belgian parliament today. The discussion was asked by a MP of the Flemish language group, so the minister replied in Dutch only. For those who don't understan...

Some say it’s becoming a soap. My guess: it’s becoming a scam. Victims: the city of Maastricht and its taxpayers. http://www.maastricht-airlines.com/en/uitstel-vluchten/ This due to the late delivery of the Fokker 50 aircraft. In March of this year there was already a problem with the delivery of th...

If you you don't want to read it, there is no obligation, first of all. And the aim of a forum is giving opinion, there is no point to be agressive like this even if you don't agree on what other are saying! If freedom of speech exists for those who want to bash Brussels Airlines, then freedom of s...

Maastricht Airlines postpones first flight to the 1st of May Source: Maastricht Airlines ... Passengers already booked on the flights between 25 March and 30 April will be informed about the cancelations and will have the choice to change their booking free of charge or to receive a full refund. As...

http://www.dichtbij.nl/maastricht/ondernemersnieuws/artikel/2670494/munchen-en-berlijn-populair-bij-maastricht-airlines.aspx Maastricht Airlines lijkt een goede start te maken. Het aantal boekingen loopt volgens de maatschappij goed. Vooral München en Berlijn zijn favoriet bij de reizigers. Maastri...

LOT Polish Airways 787 expected to make test flight Tuesday A 787 built for LOT Polish Airways (SP-LRC) is expected to be the first flight test to verify the system, to prove to the FAA that Boeing's upgraded battery is safe. It is expected to take off from Everett's Paine Field on Tuesday, followe...

The solution includes measures (e.g. three layers) that would prevent each individual cell from overheating, prevent a failed cell from harming adjacent cells, as well as contain the fire in the event one cell or the whole battery does overheat. "contain the fire in the event one cell or the w...

Nice article in Trends (NL):

http://trends.knack.be/economie/nieuws/ ... 735139.htm

It's one of the three topics in VTM Telefacts tonight (VTM = Flemish commercial tv)

http://vtm.be/telefacts/diamantroof-op-zaventem

there's a mention "Monday 17h20" on that site, but that was the time that the article was put online. Telefacts is scheduled for 21h30-22h10.

The robbery was discussed during "question time" in the general assembly from the Belgian Parliament on Thursday 21 Febr:

html link (see item n° 7)
http://www.dekamer.be/doc/PCRI/html/53/ip132x.html

pdf link (see item n° 7)
http://www.dekamer.be/doc/PCRI/pdf/53/ip132.pdf

I could be wrong on this one, but after previous heists at the airport, didn't 2 cars of the fed police escort Brinks to the airplane position, guard & wait until pushback? Last year or something I noticed the evening diamond transport comming into brucargo with the usual 1 or 2 escorting vehic...

A Ryanair aircraft bound to Charleroi with 100 passengers and 6 crew on board was losing fuel while taxiing before take-off from Pisa. It has been stopped by Airport Security. It eventually took off at 14:35 with a 2 hrs delay. The press is picking it up: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1901/reisnieuws/ar...

Update from Aviation Herald: On Feb 20th 2013 the JTSB released another progress report in Japanese, reporting that the aircraft had no history of being hit by lightning. The positive electrode of cell number 3 had become so hot, that the material melted, the positive terminal of cells 1, 2, 6, 7 an...

Flanker2 wrote:
If Swiss goes B748, I hope that SN gets their junked up A343's.

Some wake up with a SN-phobia.
Others fall asleep with a SN-phobia.
And a few wake up and fall asleep with a SN-phobia.

"Excuse me gentlemen, may I kindly invite you to put down your...er...8 (eight!) AK-47's, leave the 50 million in diamonds and join me to a security checkpoint. It is rather unacceptable that you delay a commercial airliner and we would like to fill in a report with you." Newspaper Gazet ...

if people can rob a bank its obvious they can rob an aircraft. i don't see why you people should attack BRU and its security for that. normally the aircraft should have been guarded by armed police vehicles, snipers and guards. they do it for much less valuable MS cargo Indeed, that's what I thaugh...

English language media are reporting 350.000.000 EUR worth of diamonds but I don't know where they got their information from. Belgian media seem to be on par with each other and are indeed reporting a value of 50.000.000 USD and I guess this should be right since it were rough, uncut diamonds whic...