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Charleroi : what to expect : new airlines/destinations

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From end of this month :
- Corendon to Antalia
- Private Wings to Ingolstadt 3X per week
- Club Air to Verona and Trapani
Negociations with Thomas Cook and Jetairfly about flights to south Europe from april next year.

http://www.rtlinfo.be/news/article/4060 ... +Charleroi

http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id= ... _id=374348

http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail. ... 7132071003

And, from yesterday : Katowice 3X weekly by Wizz Air.

http://www.charleroi-airport.com/doc.ph ... e=4&site=1

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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

spotter1102

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I just checked http://jetphotos.net :

Private Wings has 2 or 3 Dornier 328-100 Jet and 1 Beech 1900D (D-COLA)

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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/Liege ... ns_000.pdf

In french:
http://www.liegeairport.com/documents/L ... essens.pdf

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In the newspaper today, there is an advertisement issued by the Sowaer (Société Wallonne des aéroports), giving notice that an administrative procedure is on stream, with a view to lenghten the runway of CRL.
650 m will be added to the east end of the runway, stretching it from 2550 m to 3200 m.
A public information meeting will be organised at 19 h on wednesday 24 october , at the Point Centre, Aéropôle, Avenue Lemaître, 19 , 6041 Gosselies.
(In "Le Soir", 6/7 oct, page18)

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How and where can you book flights with Private Wings?! No booking engine on their website...

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good news for both airports, too bad there isn't a good train connection that brings you straight in the airport of charleroi

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airazurxtror wrote:650 m will be added to the east end of the runway, stretching it from 2550 m to 3200 m.
(In "Le Soir", 6/7 oct, page18)
Was about time... :roll:

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there was a train connection project of SNCB/NMBS a few years ago,but it stay in the fridge for the moment ...

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ERICAIRLINES wrote:there was a train connection project of SNCB/NMBS a few years ago,but it stay in the fridge for the moment ...
too bad i think, charleroi could become very popular imo, if you look how easy the transport to brussels airport is with the train

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what about the fog ?

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I'm very surprised a lot of airlines are planning to go to CRL, they are maybe not aware that during the automn and winter, their flights will be diverted every day there is fog...
Last WE, today for instance, all flights are diverted (to Liège, I assume). That means thousands of passengers who just made it to the airport for nothing, they will be reallocated to other flights other days, with possible fog always...
I don't understand CRL does not give top priority to an efficient CAT 2/3 ILS. This would solve a lot of problems.

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Re: what about the fog ?

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stefanel wrote: I don't understand CRL does not give top priority to an efficient CAT 2/3 ILS. This would solve a lot of problems.
It will be operational hopefully for the winter 2008-2009...
In the meantime ...
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/notices. ... CRL-fog-GB
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Re: what about the fog ?

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stefanel wrote:I'm very surprised a lot of airlines are planning to go to CRL, they are maybe not aware that during the automn and winter, their flights will be diverted every day there is fog...
Last WE, today for instance, all flights are diverted (to Liège, I assume). That means thousands of passengers who just made it to the airport for nothing, they will be reallocated to other flights other days, with possible fog always...
I don't understand CRL does not give top priority to an efficient CAT 2/3 ILS. This would solve a lot of problems.
They would be stupid to organize a CATIII ILS before the new runway.
I think you don't realize what this involves.

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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)

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It seems that the flights of Private Wings to Ingolstadt have already started :

http://www.charleroi-airport.com/doc.ph ... 1&deploy=1

Takeoff at 5 pm but the gate is closed ? It won't be commercial flights ?

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spotter1102 wrote:Takeoff at 5 pm but the gate is closed ? It won't be commercial flights ?
Flights for engineers and businesspeople of Audi.
André
ex Sabena #26567

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sn26567 wrote:
spotter1102 wrote:Takeoff at 5 pm but the gate is closed ? It won't be commercial flights ?
Flights for engineers and businesspeople of Audi.
They have to check-in or not ?

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Post by eu01 »

Well, I don't know if and when Ryanair is going to announce further expansion from CRL (will it be anytime soon?), but what strikes me is the extreme asymmetry in the network development from the airport:
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None of the destinations on the map lie to the North-East from Brussels. Would it be something to correct in the future? If not the workforce, at least the EU officials and tourists keep coming to Belgium from every direction, don't you think?

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Post by pressman »

It,s a little strange that there have been no announcements regarding expanding with the new airport

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Post by airazurxtror »

Last week, BSCA (Brussels South Charleroi Airport) has hired its 300th employee; there should be some 320 of them in time for the opening of the new terminal, next January, according to the BSCA spokesman, Pierre Fernémont.
In 2000, they were still only 51.
An airport "job day" will be held at Charleroi Expo, 20 october, from 10 to 16 h.
(Source : Métro, today p. 12)

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