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It's clear for many years now, LGG is a cargo airport with marginal pax activity, only charters, 25 destinations this year, about 400.000 pax/year. Still, it's the 3rd biggest airport in Belgium for pax and it's showing great will of expanding due to a lot of interest from different companies. The W...

in french:
http://www.rtc.be/content/view/5767/166/
http://www.rtc.be/content/view/5768/166/

I wish they had said "ok, it's true, you diserve a good salary raise, but first we will take the first 24 months of this raise to pay back the mess you created with your strike". Heard again on the radio today that we are one of the only country where union does not have a juridical person...

No other airport in Belgium is capable of beeing a full backup of BRU, that's no secret. But there are still good alternative, not perfect, but far better than cancelation for pax. Even with some waiting time, they should realise that others are working hard so they can leave anyway. 50 flights in L...

IMHO, the way to get people interested in a physically hard job with often unsocial working hours and bad working conditions is not to pay them 1,200 euros a month, but to offer them an attractive pay. And if this means more expensive air tickets, so be it. It's not that the air fares will suddenly...

Even LGG can't handle this situation. They have not the accomodation to handle a lot of flights. The latest I could read was about 4 hours delay at LGG airport. From what I know, they managed very well to handdle more than 50 flights in one day. The terminal and the infrastructure should not be abl...

so you work in TNT office and just look all that though the window ?

maybe we should change the name of the topic.
A strike is an planed action taken after failed negociations. Totally not the case today, it was not planned and there were no negociations before the action. Sadly usual in belgium, but should not be called strike.

Liège Airport is the world hub of TNT Airways, and the european hub of CAL Cargo Air Lines, El Al Cargo and Ethiopian Cargo (also using Southern Air aircraft) and Avient Aviation. Liège airport is the 8th biggest cargo airport in Europe and the 38th biggest in the world and the 24th biggest if you c...

Live timetable of Liège airport :
http://www.liegeairport.com/timetable/timetable.php

More than 45-50 flights were diverted to LGG (+/- 4000 pax)
A nice A330 from ethiad was also a visitor yesterday

what is your source ?

Might be a kalitta...but most 747 land during the day I think...

very interesting observation

the new terminal will be fully functional by then

We want only rich tourists ! :) what a joke :) you are a jole :))) when i go to bruges from Liege, i eat a Liege waffle and drink Jupiler, that's evil, dont do that man ! you're insane or what ! Enough jokes, i'm quite happy that unrich student from everywhere in europe are now able to visit one of ...

It is a very good initiative. Charleroi is growing in the air, but it's necessary to grow in the ground too, it's all very good. Even if it's cheaper and probably faster by train, people just prefer to keep things simple by a point-to-point trip. It will be different the day they make a train statio...

hehe Established02, yeah ok, will try next time

Mercator> if 747 Cargo can land, others can land too, isnt it ?
but LGG does not have VIP arrivals like in big airports indeed ...

why not land in Liège instead of doing this stupid round trip with amsterdam ?

I think they planned ILS before the runway ... let's hope, it is really a top priority ...

Many flights to Liège this morning indeed ...
too bad the 2 airports dont agree to drive pax by bus (for the few canceled flights)

Some good news also for Liège airport. I hope you dont mind that I use this topic for this, Charleroi and Liège airprot are brothers anyway :) In english : http://liegeairport.com/documents/LiegeAirport-Takingoffinalldirections_000.pdf In french: http://www.liegeairport.com/documents/Liegeairportbou...

That's a lot of great news in one time.
It's moving fast there.

hopefully, they will have CAT III soon, many flights were diverted to Liège again yesterday. This and the new terminal, Charleroi is ready to grow fast

how come they keep some many flight there ?
leipzig cannot handle everything from the begening ?
Is it a temporary solution before the complete move ?