Former long haul destinations ex BRU

[B737229]

Nationair and Club Air to YMX/YUL

also flown for a short while by Air Canada using 762 equipment during the 90s

[luchtzak]

You have all forgotten Citybird !!

[regi]

Regi! You didn't mention Biman!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could I ever forget?!?!?! Shame on you, Regi!

Biman doesn't fly long haul. They try to, but have to land here and there to put some extra 3M tape on a wing, fill up hydraulic fluid, repair an engine with bamboo sticks or simply get fuel for the thirsty DC-10.

Just kidding.

Right guys, you got me here.

Btw : can we regard Biman as a passenger airline, if we see how they handle the customers as unhuman cargo?

[Stij]

You have all forgotten Citybird !!

Damn, and I used to work there... shame on me!

Actually we should mention Sobelair then as well, they flew scheduled to Johannesburg I think.

Cheers,

Stij

[regi]

You have all forgotten Citybird !!

Damn, and I used to work there... shame on me!

Actually we should mention Sobelair then as well, they flew scheduled to Johannesburg I think.

Cheers,

Stij

and Phuket.

[BrightCedars]

Relating to the original poster asking about routes and destinations, I think we haven't mentioned our dear Sabena so far. It's a long history but recently we can add a lot of African dots to Brussels Airlines' network, as well as NRT, JFK, EWR, ATL, BOS, ORD, etc., etc., etc.

Further back in history we can include BOM, BKK, SIN, THR and a bunch of others all around the planet.

[regi]

Relating to the original poster asking about routes and destinations, I think we haven't mentioned our dear Sabena so far. It's a long history but recently we can add a lot of African dots to Brussels Airlines' network, as well as NRT, JFK, EWR, ATL, BOS, ORD, etc., etc., etc.

Further back in history we can include BOM, BKK, SIN, THR and a bunch of others all around the planet.

yes, it was quite strange. Some months before the plug was pulled out of the Sabena business, I saw an advertisement with their promotions to worldwide destinations. Some of those places I had never heard about.
And I still don't know why Madras was on that list. Years ago a member responded on that remark with a plausible explanation.

But coming back to your topic: it raises the question why Brussels is not more connected directly to so many destinations. People fly now directly towards Shanghai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrein. The times they are a changin'

[BRUMRU]

Air Mauritius used to fly to Brussels, not sure when they stopped, I think it was around 2000 ?

[The_Swoose]

Hi all,

I remember:

Nationair B747/B757 (to Toronto)
Skyjet DC10 (Charters flights)
Air Transat Tristar (to Montreal)
Aeroflot IL86 (to Moscow)

[Jetairfly]

Hello everybody,

What about:

-Asiana (Seoul)*
-Singapore Airlines (Manchester, Frankfurt (?))*
-Saudi Arabian Airlines*
-Air Gabon (Libreville and London Gatwick)*
-China Eastern Airlines (Munich, Shanghai)
-Condor (Munich)
-Turkish Airlines ( routing Istanbul-Brussels-New York JFK (?) )
-Swissair (Zürich, Geneva, Basle)
-US Airways (Charlotte)
-Lotus Air (Luxor, Hurghada)
-AMC Airlines (Hurhghada)
-Martinair (Colombo, Muscat and others (?))
-Jetaifly (Orlando)
-Sobelair (La Romana, Mombassa, Malé)
-BelgiumExel
-Air Belgium (Luxor, Hurghada)
-Hellasjet
-Aegean Airlines (Heraklion)

Source *: Vital Guide: Major airlines of the world, second edition by Gunther Endres

[EHBK-Resident]

Aaahh... Citybird, the Flying Dream....


I hear the good old Albatros (OO_CTB, MD11) has been decommissioned for passenger service by Finair now.
They converted her to freighter

Too bad such a nice refreshing company had to go down.....

[Stij]

Aaahh... Citybird, the Flying Dream....


I hear the good old Albatros (OO_CTB, MD11) has been decommissioned for passenger service by Finair now.
They converted her to freighter

Too bad such a nice refreshing company had to go down.....

Good old Albatros? That thing made so much stops on the Azores because of technical problems, especially in the week after it returend from maintenance from Zurich! This was OO-TUC avant la lettre! The 767's were more reliable.

Cheers,

Stij

[EHBK-Resident]

Aaahh... Citybird, the Flying Dream....


I hear the good old Albatros (OO_CTB, MD11) has been decommissioned for passenger service by Finair now.
They converted her to freighter

Too bad such a nice refreshing company had to go down.....

Good old Albatros? That thing made so much stops on the Azores because of technical problems, especially in the week after it returend from maintenance from Zurich! This was OO-TUC avant la lettre! The 767's were more reliable.

Cheers,

Stij

I can remember a flight to CUN from BRU in the late 90-ties. Right after Swissair 111.

While flying over Halifax, the CTB pilot made an announcement that we were over the spot where the Swissair flight had crashed. He also mentioned that CTB had contracted Swissair for maintenance of their fleet.....that gave me kind of a squeezy feeling......

A look at the flight deck (back then it was still possible) showed a lot of "INOP" stickers on the co's side of the deck......

But she flew just perfectly......

[regi]

Aaahh... Citybird, the Flying Dream....


I hear the good old Albatros (OO_CTB, MD11) has been decommissioned for passenger service by Finair now.
They converted her to freighter

Too bad such a nice refreshing company had to go down.....

Good old Albatros? That thing made so much stops on the Azores because of technical problems, especially in the week after it returend from maintenance from Zurich! This was OO-TUC avant la lettre! The 767's were more reliable.

Cheers,

Stij

I can remember a flight to CUN from BRU in the late 90-ties. Right after Swissair 111.

While flying over Halifax, the CTB pilot made an announcement that we were over the spot where the Swissair flight had crashed. He also mentioned that CTB had contracted Swissair for maintenance of their fleet.....that gave me kind of a squeezy feeling......

A look at the flight deck (back then it was still possible) showed a lot of "INOP" stickers on the co's side of the deck......

But she flew just perfectly......

Sure that it was a MD-11 and not a Biman DC-10 ?

[Airbus A330]

City Bird flew with MD-11('s), Biman with DC-10's and the MD-10 is a FedEx exclusivity.

[regi]

City Bird flew with MD-11('s), Biman with DC-10's and the MD-10 is a FedEx exclusivity.

I was just kidding.

[diddi]

Austrian to JFK

[jan_olieslagers]

Austrian to JFK

I seem to remember this. 1970 or so? B707, painted Austrian one side and Sabena on the other?

[nordikcam]

Yeap remember too but OS plane painted in Ausrian colors on the two parts !! Wien BRU JFK...

[diddi]

Just for fun: overheard in the travel agency`s office some 43 years ago: "Why should I give this Air India timetable to you, young man? You`ll throw it away anyway!!" AI to BRU once weekly at least from the mid-Sixties, and the timetable is still in my book-shelf after all these years: