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by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 15:42
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

Indeed
Just a purely hypothetical excercise:

BCN-JFK: booked on the SN website: 3488€ return

Sames dates and flight times:
BCN - BRU return on FR with 20kg luggage and reserved seat: 190€
BRU - JFK return on SN: 854€
Together: 1044€

Just saying ...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 15:12
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

I don't know, their will probably be figures about that somewhere.
As far as I know their will be additional FR destinations from BRU after the summer.
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 15:07
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

I have to say that I have been quite dissappointed by SN on a personal level. From the 50 or 60 or so employees that I've met in the last 3 weeks that I said good morning - evening to, only one did not stick their nose in the air and turned their face away. I really cannot understand why people cann...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 14:57
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

I don't think it's the style of the Lufthansa carriers to rely on feed by 'hostile airlines', if I may call them that way: see how they reluctantly code share even with STAR Alliance partners (no SAS or LOT code share in BRU for instance), or how Lufthansa doesnt even codeshare with Turkish. Person...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 14:44
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

I call it promising results. The FY2013 figures combined with passenger and cargo evolution suggest that FY2014 could be closed near break-even if costs can be kept under control and LCC impact can be limited. It will be interesting to see the march figures as these will be the first indication of ...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 14:25
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

Since When is not making profit a good thing to do for companies? Better than expected maybe, certainly not good. seeing where they are coming from, it is my opinion that these figures can be interpreted as positive. They are profiting from the economy that is coming out of a slump and forecast is ...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 12:50
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
Replies: 1895
Views: 560436

Re: Brussels airlines future and financial perspective

The target for 2013 was a loss of between 20 M and 0. (I don't find the original reference but see for instance: by RoMax » 14 Mar 2013, 19:29 - SN expects a loss of 0 to 20 million this year and a profit in 2014) Thus, the loss is worse than the worst expected. And a question : are the expected Wa...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 12:15
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

Flanker2 wrote:Decompression can be ruled out.
Did your glass ball tell you that? :roll:
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 09:30
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

I rather think that it's an hijacking. If you read the article it's mentioned that they think that the transponder may have been switched off intentionally to avoid detection. It also mentioned that they were pursuing the possibility that the plane has been taken to been used on a later date. I'm n...
by Sean_DM
13 Mar 2014, 08:43
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

According to US investigators the plane has flown for an additional 4 hours after contact was lost: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282 It may sound weird but it's not the US equivalent of "Het Laatste Nieuws" that broke the story, it's publishe...
by Sean_DM
11 Mar 2014, 17:04
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Ryanair in 2014
Replies: 909
Views: 246860

Re: Ryanair in 2014

In this case it means that FR is very happy with the start-up of this base. Everything is going according to plan.
by Sean_DM
11 Mar 2014, 12:31
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

Wooow, the theories :D They are just searching according to a search technique called "the creeping line ahead", where they will follow a search pattern in line with the projected route of flight, ..... Yeah, and they continued searching so long along that line that they made it around th...
by Sean_DM
11 Mar 2014, 09:07
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

Wooow, the theories :D They are just searching according to a search technique called "the creeping line ahead", where they will follow a search pattern in line with the projected route of flight, in the mean time they are asking ships and aircraft around to have a sharp lookout. The searc...
by Sean_DM
10 Mar 2014, 23:27
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Ryanair in 2014
Replies: 909
Views: 246860

Re: Ryanair in 2014

maybe more passengers had luggage as it was the start of the holidays ... so probably ... yes
by Sean_DM
10 Mar 2014, 09:30
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight M

that's right, therefore I'm thinking that it was not a mid-air break up and the debris is to be found under water. Some of it will float to the surface at some point, question is ... when
by Sean_DM
10 Mar 2014, 09:25
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: New charter airlines based in BRU
Replies: 26
Views: 5965

Re: New charter airlines based in BRU

Thomas Cook is a competitor of Corendon (and even more so than SN's other big client Club Med, because Thomas Cook Belgium is also active in the lower budget segment of the market). It's not unseen, but as long as Thomas Cook has another choice, they will not go working with Corendon... I wonder ho...
by Sean_DM
09 Mar 2014, 21:25
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: American introduces new B763 C class cabin similar to SN
Replies: 2
Views: 1184

Re: American introduces new B763 C class cabin similar to SN

Good looking cabin, but a rather strange decision not to include IFE
I'm not a big fan of this hand-out tablet option.
by Sean_DM
09 Mar 2014, 21:19
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Boeing 787 news
Replies: 1166
Views: 641961

Re: Boeing 787 news

I believe winds dictated a crossing closer to HNL than usual.
by Sean_DM
08 Mar 2014, 13:58
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is missing
Replies: 570
Views: 259005

Re: Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a flight

That certainly puts another light on things. Could this be a terrorist attack?