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The Dutch Consumer and Markets Authority (ACM) has ruled twice in favour of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in cases brought up by airlines. First complaint by airlines was for an increase in tariffs to cover the Covid-19 losses. "The two majority shareholders from AMS are the City of Amsterdam and ...

2 new members for the Mile High Club. Though the airline involved (FlySafair South Africa) isn't really 'pleased': https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/couple-banned-from-flysafair-after-getting-intimate-on-durban-flight-in-full-view-of-passengers-20230419 Aircraft was ZS-FGC = B737-800: h...

Niceair (not from Nice, but from Iceland) plans to launch operations in June 2022, based at Akureyri Airport with one A319 on lease, flying to the UK, Denmark and Spain. HiFly has repossessed the sole Niceair aircraft, apparently because of payment issues. https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a...

Warning for Simón Bolívar International Airport (Colombia):

Court case in Haarlem tomorrow (21/03): IATA and 5 airlines (Corendon, Delta, easyJet, KLM and TUI) against Schiphol Airport. The airlines demand that Schiphol Airport cancels its plan to limit the maximal number of movements from 500.000 to 440.000 as from 2023/2024. The judge has ruled in favour ...

Court case in Haarlem tomorrow (21/03): IATA and 5 airlines (Corendon, Delta, easyJet, KLM and TUI) against Schiphol Airport.
The airlines demand that Schiphol Airport cancels its plan to limit the maximal number of movements from 500.000 to 440.000 as from 2023/2024.

msn 001 is scrapped:
https://twitter.com/jetcitystar/status/ ... 6298891264

Back in 2017, entertainer/entrepreneur Jack Schoepen hoped to build the "Captain Jack aviation theme park" next To Sunparks Mol. That project was cancelled by the French owners of Sunparks: https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/captain-jack-new-indoor-aviation-theme-park-mol/ Newspaper ...

The Dutch Police (Koninklijke Marechaussee) has arrested a man with a crossbow at the AMS Railway station. An employee from the railway company (NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen) had disarmed the man just before he was arrested.

https://twitter.com/Marechaussee/status ... 0882468867

OO-SNF (Tomorrowland colours) did a ski-accidents-repat-flight today, out of Grenoble.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... f#2f4fd939

State owned Transnet-ACSA (Airports Company South Africa) will no longer respect the embargo on refuelling Russian aircraft:
https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/ru ... t-20230221

Flaps problem for OO-ACE:
http://avherald.com/h?article=50577b54&opt=0

Flight involved:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... e#2f45826c

18/02/2023: Wildcat strike by Aviapartner at Brussels Airport: https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussels-airport-bru/wildcat-strike-at-brussels-airport-handling-agent/ Financial results: BY-2020: 10.548.774 loss BY-2021: 1.142.319 loss cumulated loss 31/12/2021: 15.371.963 own assetts 31/12/2021: ...

Huge IT failure at Frankfurt causes delays and cancellations:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/ ... 79847.html

On Wednesday 08/02/2023, a passenger passed away onboard British Airways BA-057 London Heathrow-Johannesburg (A380 G-XLEI).

Source:
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafri ... t-20230210

Back in 2017, entertainer/entrepreneur Jack Schoepen hoped to build the "Captain Jack aviation theme park" next To Sunparks Mol. That project was cancelled by the French owners of Sunparks: https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/captain-jack-new-indoor-aviation-theme-park-mol/ Newspaper G...

First, it was believed that the deceased animals were sloth bears, now it turns out that a wrong translation caused the error. The dead animals are sloths. The WWF thinks that there are only 1.500 sloths left worldwide. https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sloth They qualify as "Least Concern...

TB2182 JTR - BRU diverted to BEG. suspected fuel leak, switched off engine, diverted to Belgrade. Today, Serbia's Civil Aviation Authority reported the occurrence was rated a serious incident and opened an investigation. More details in The Aviation Herald: http://avherald.com/h?article=4e806458&am...

FEDERALE OVERHEIDSDIENST MOBILITEIT EN VERVOER 15 JANUARI 2023. - Koninklijk besluit houdende vaststelling van het bedrag van de passagiersvergoeding Diabolo FILIP, Koning der Belgen, Aan allen die nu zijn en hierna wezen zullen, Onze Groet. Gelet op de wet van 30 april 2007 houdende dringende spoo...

The Diabolo surcharge will increase from 5,00 € to 5,8403 € on 01st February 2023.

(source: Belgian State Gazette 20/01/2023)