PICTURE: Start-up Cargo B Prepares To Take First 747

[Ziplepingouin]

Article courtasy of flightglobal.com

PICTURE: Start-up Cargo B prepares to take first 747
By Victoria Moores

Belgian cargo start-up Cargo B Airlines will take delivery of its first Boeing 747 in late August.

Cargo B Airlines, led by former SN Brussels Airlines chairman Rob Kuijpers, is slated to begin operations this October. It is planning to serve destinations in the Middle and Far East, Africa and South America.

It is planning to launch with two Boeing 747s, with a third due to join its fleet on 1 April 2008.


Cargo B planning to serve destinations in the Middle and Far East, Africa and South America

A statement from Cargo B says: “We proudly present our first Boeing 747 freighter in its new livery, fresh from the paintshop in Paris. The first 747 for Cargo B Airlines is expected to arrive at Brussels Airport during the last week of August.”

The start-up has extended its management team to include cargo director Gerard ter Bruggen, formerly cargo manager for Dragonair and sales manager with Martinair.

Based at Brussels, ter Bruggen will oversee the airline’s day-to-day commercial activities.

Former Brussels Airlines flight operations VP Dirk Vrebos has also joined the Cargo B Airlines team as operations director. He has previously worked for Virgin Express, Sabena and Thomas Cook Airlines in various management and postholder roles.

[ehamspotter]

Hello;

WOW I really like the colors!!

They say that their first bird will arrive in BRU the last week of august...
Is there already a date known yet???

rgds:Jeroen

[Outsync]

Hello;

WOW I really like the colors!!

They say that their first bird will arrive in BRU the last week of august...
Is there already a date known yet???

rgds:Jeroen

Looks like a brand new aircraft!

[rut-her]

Looks like a brand new aircraft!

A bit of new paint can do a lot!!

I can't wait to see them operating here in BRU!

Greetz,
Rutger

[CargoB]

Hi Guys,

I know! It's a beautifull Aircraft!!!

Greets

Stijn

[spotter1102]

Hi Guys,

I know! It's a beautifull Aircraft!!!

Greets

Stijn

Hi CargoB, welcome to Luchtzak


Do you know the eta for the Cargo B ?

[CargoB]

I let you know asap!

greets

Stijn

[Outsync]

Who will do the handling by the way? Aviapartner ?

[Robin_Bamps]

Who will do the handling by the way? Aviapartner ?

That's right.

Any update on the delivery flight ?
Last week of August already passed and September 1st almost too...

Regards, Robin Bamps.

[Bruspotter]

Hi

cool! 8) Is the 747 in the picture a -400F or a -200F?


Best regards: Yannick

[Sparrow]

Hi

cool! 8) Is the 747 in the picture a -400F or a -200F?


Best regards: Yannick

Its a B742F. Here is an other picture.
http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewpho ... picid=4032

Kind regards
Bavo

[CargoB]

Aviapartner will do our handling in Brussels

And its a B747-200F

greets

[BrightCedars]

Long live Cargo B, but please - if the business goes right - consider upgrading the fleet asap as even 747-400F's are really noisy on take off.

I don't even want to think of 747-200F's. I still remember the good old Sabena DC-10's shacking part of Schaerbeek in the late hours of the day when I was a little boy.

Would night operations even be allowed for such noisy aircraft?

Again, I do wish success to the new airline, and lots of 330-200F & 777-200F!

[744rules]

Would night operations even be allowed for such noisy aircraft?

-200/-300 no take-off/landing between 2300 and 0600
-400: no take-off between 2300-0600/landing allowed

md11 no restrictions

[zteven]

Does anyone know their ICAO or IATA code?

If so, then I might be able have a look and see
when the first flight will be sceduled.

Greetz



Steven

[Established02]

I still remember the good old Sabena DC-10's shacking part of Schaerbeek in the late hours of the day when I was a little boy.

Sabena used to have those 23:59 departures to Africa, scheduled with DC10 and later on also B742.

I just loved the pure sound of those nightly departures, not being spoiled by other sounds of car traffic and stuff. 8)

Another legendary operator with nightly 742s and 741s used to be Flying Tigers!

[jessy]

Any news about delivery date and time from Paris?
want to fly that same flight on FS aswell (IVAO)

[raynald]

ICAO code CBB


cheers

Ray

[fcw]

Sabena used to have those 23:59 departures to Africa, scheduled with DC10 and later on also B742.

Just for info: Sabena never had 742's!

[Skystef]

Sabena used to have those 23:59 departures to Africa, scheduled with DC10 and later on also B742.

Just for info: Sabena never had 742's!

Am afraid Established02 is right. Although no B747-200 with Sabena in Belgian register, they did lease 3 airframes of Air France. F-BPVS and F-GCBI only for a couple of weeks in 1994 and 1995. But everybody should remember F-GCBB, operational in Sabena f/c between 1993-96. Here a pic of it.