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I'm not sugercoating it Sean, but calling it 'social dumping at its best' is just crazy. It makes perfect sense for EW to keep their own operations 'clean' by only having short/medium haul operations under their own AOC('s) and rather make use of another fully owned subsidiary of the group which is ...

and (re-)employ people on inferior belgian contracts (in comparison to their old german one). They have German SN contracts and as far as I know nobody was forced to sign them. And inferior? Well yeah, as most of them were previously contracted by an airline paying them too much and being unable to...

I can tell you that AB has lots of crew who are eager to fly and have their mobile phones on, hoping they get a call. A daily inspection and the A340s are ready as well. If they don’t fly for SN it’s because SN didn’t call AB. A yes let's call the crew and Sabena Aerospace (or is it LHT for them?) ...

Thank you for these remarks. I generally appreciate your comments like those of Romax or others. That said, and if I may, "bad luck" is a "typical" answer ( réponse type ) to a customer "lambda". I do not think that a general management can be satisfied in AG to say &q...

Why don’t they call Air Belgium? Two A340s ready to go with a couple of hours notice. (I know why, but I will be shot down in flames if I write it down) Who says they're ready to go in a couple of hours for SN?! Do you really think SN is cancelling (or delaying by 24h) long haul flights just becaus...

The age of many of those A330's is showing more and more. To some extent it's normal, but it really seems to become more than normal. But it's not like the management doesn't know, in case you missed it 7 much newer, more reliable and more efficient A333's will join the fleet soon and already this s...

My guess is that EW will end up taking over all A320 leases and LM will go for B737s. MOL is in charge now. Several of these A320's are actually already in the hands of EW as a result of the AB take-over, but leased to Laudamotion 'on request' of the EU (and now wet-leased back to EW). Niki was usi...

No it's not the SN product and brand, why would it be if it's operated out of Germany (yes even in Germany SN is a very bad known brand). But why is SN so badly known in Germany? Because LH decided to monopolise the routes from BRU to its main bases FRA and MUC. The former SN (Sabena) was flying to...

The homebase is not Brussels. How is it then a "real" SN plane? Since when is that a criteria? Because of the name (well then Air Berlin was very much anti-Air Berlin by having bases throughout Germany, PMI, etc.) or because of sentiment? ... Aircraft are leased by SN (from LHG), on the S...

In fact, a week early for BRU, a week late for IAD: USA/Canada moved to summer time on March 11; we'll move on March 25. These are IATA seasons, they are 'by accident' (not really but ok :p ) related to the summer/winter time difference in Europe, but the IATA seasons are used globally for scheduli...

Established02 wrote: ↑13 Mar 2018, 22:19 The previous drop-off arrangement only lasted for a bit more than a year.

As it was never intended as a 'permanent' solution. Currently they are working on the next version of the 'temporary' solution until the full zone is completely redeveloped over the coming years.

Won't it be used for EW at first? One of the 2 'early arrivals' (don't remember if it's this one or the other) will indeed temporarily go to EW for about 10 months after which it returns to SN. The other one will be used by SN during the summer. Both will operate with a slightly adapted Cathay inte...

Btw, it might be interesting for some to look at the history of Eurowings and Germanwings in Germany (which after all is the home market on which it's all based). Eurowings already exists since the early 1990's as a regional airline operating under the Eurowings name (mainly regional aircraft like ...

It's a yellow square with a Willkommen/Welcome message. I assume in line with their logic of using the yellow only for accents, but it's a bit 'bright' in the overall paint and yet too small to be clear what it is. Clearly shows the logic of Lufthansa: a simple basic paint that hurts nobody and acce...

At the moment, I believe this would be the best choice. However, as the name of the company is in the hands of the people who thought Eurowings is a good name for a company, I don't have high hopes. Really, how imaginative have one to be in order to come with something so lame as "Eurowings&qu...

The market share of SN grew by about 3pct points from 33.5% in January 2017 to 36.4% in January 2018. These shares can highly vary per month and over the course of the year so indeed best to compare equal periods. Btw, with 9.077mio pax for SN on 24.784mio, SN's market share (excluding charter pax) ...

1. The number of ex-TC flights is still high, mostly every Saturday, even in January (TFS, LP, Capo Verde, Alicante, Marrakesh, Agadir, Marsa Alam, Hurghada, Djerba, Ibiza..., maybe for a total of 12 to 15 if you include some on other days of the week); these would be equivalent to 15000 to 20000 p...

1. The number of ex-TC flights is still high, mostly every Saturday, even in January (TFS, LP, Capo Verde, Alicante, Marrakesh, Agadir, Marsa Alam, Hurghada, Djerba, Ibiza..., maybe for a total of 12 to 15 if you include some on other days of the week); these would be equivalent to 15000 to 20000 p...

Let's not be naive here, "Brussels Airlines" is virtually unknown outside of Belgium and Africa. The name has no history, it's a relatively small airline, it's not "catchy" (which is indeed the reason people refer to it in so many variations), it's not very recognizable, ... Refe...

Brussels Airlines January 2018 traffic figures , a growth of 15% compared to January 2017. To have an accurate figure, you should add TCAB passengers for 2017 before calculating. I would estimate the real growth to be around 5%. You might not have access to the detailed data so not blaming for not ...