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This Friday, Continental's B777 Peter Max is visiting BRU again. And the weather forecast looks excellent for Friday morning!

Next Wednesday, Etihad will send an A340-500 to Brussels instead of an A330-200. It will continue to Toronto. This will also be the last Etihad flight to Toronto via Brussels.

ETA: 17.55
ETD: 19.40

Ik heb ook geregeld problemen met de website van Brussels Airport, vooral dan met de link naar het type vliegtuig.

Op dit ogenblik is de website zelfs helemaal niet bereikbaar.

Some airlines reduce capacity during the winter season. Continental may also do this, hence maybe the downgrade from 772 to 764. I hope we will see the 772 again for the 2008 summer season.

I don't think that these models are discontinued, since they were only added to their inventory about a month ago. Instead, I think that Cathay Pacific models are exclusive models that are not available in the regular collection, and therefore are not mentioned on the Herpa website.

Herpa does have Cathay Pacific models in the 1/500 scale, see for instance 747-200F Silver Bullet and 747-400F.

The new website is up and running again, unfortunately with the general aircraft types instead of the more detailed ones on the old site.

The Japanese were able to watch the emergency landing live. You can see it here

And apparently Jetair has already found a replacement aircraft. According the Brussels Airport website, the flight to Punta Cana and Montego Bay will be flown by a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. I guess that this will be the EuroAtlantic one?

Accoring to the newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad", a bird hit the nose of the aircraft. Opnieuw problemen met Jetair-vliegtuig BRUSSEL - (Belga) Er zijn opnieuw problemen met een vliegtuig van Jetair, ditmaal in Mexico. Volgens de touroperator raakte een vogel de neus van het toestel, waardoor da...

Yes, the Dutch NH-90s are delayed as well.

Here is the link (in Dutch): http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?id=18677

I think he is talking about a cargo flight. On the Brussels Airport website, WO900 to Helsinki is mentioned under cargo departures. It was supposed to leave at 11.30, but the actual flight status is not updated yet. The flight is however not cancelled at this time. It is operated by a DC-10F, and fr...

OK, sorry for the double posting. I didn't know this was already mentioned. The article appeared on the site of that newspaper today, so that's why I posted it. But I should have known that Luchtzak-members are always better informed than the press.

According to the Flemish newspaper De Standaard, Hainan will reduce its number of flights to BRU by 50%. Instead of 4 flights a week, only 1 or 2 flights a week will be offered during the winter season. One of the reasons mentioned is the low number of passengers. Normally, the frequency should incr...

The AA flight coming from New York landed at 8h51. Since the plane was on his way to EBBR anyway (so this was not a diversion), I guess it will be this one. The departure of this plane is also delayed.

Due to the cancellation of a number of flights out of Zurich because of the strike, Swiss will operate flight LX788 with an A340-300. ETA: 19.00

On Saturday, there is the arrival of the Hewa Bora Airways L1011-500 coming from Kinshasa, reg. 9Q-CHC. I guess that this will be the aircraft that you saw.

As I said in another topic about the emergency landing of the A330 yesterday, all three A330s are apparently in service again. There seem to be two Kinshasa flights today, both with an A330: 01/09 10:40 Yaounde SN 1355 via Douala via Kinshasa 01/09 10:45 Kinshasa SN 1357 And there is also a flight t...

The flight to Dakar and Monrovia is delayed and flown by a L1011-500. Is this aircraft the TriStar from Euroatlantic Airways? Also, there seem to be two Kinshasa flights today, both with an A330: 01/09 10:40 Yaounde SN 1355 via Douala via Kinshasa 01/09 10:45 Kinshasa SN 1357 And all three A330s are...

Ok, I didn't know they leased an A330. Thanks for the quick reply Atlantis!