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On October 26th, Romanian carrier Blue Air will add two weekly frequencies between Brussels Airport and London Stansted Airport. Starting December 11th, another frequency on Thursday will be added to the ones on Wednesday and Sunday. Flights will be operated with Boeing 737 aircraft.

Since 2005, Blue Air flies 5 times a week between Brussels and the Romanian capital Bucharest. Last month, one weekly frequency was added to coast city Constanta.

Flight schedule is as follows (all times are local):

STN 1500 BRU 1700
BRU 1410 STN 1415

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Jet Airways is going to extend its codeshare with Brussels Airlines. Jet Airways is going to add Paris and Manchester.

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As from October 26, Brussels Airlines will ad a 4th daily flight from Brussels to Manchester. The flight will operate as a night stop in Manchester.

Source: Brussels Airport Travel News September 2008
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I was looking at the departures & arrivals for tomorrow morning and I noticed that some SN-destinations in Scandinavia (Copenhaguen, Oslo, Gothenburg & Stockholm-Bromma) are codeshared with Etihad ! :o

Anyone has more info about it ?

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Airbus A330 wrote:I was looking at the departures & arrivals for tomorrow morning and I noticed that some SN-destinations in Scandinavia (Copenhaguen, Oslo, Gothenburg & Stockholm-Bromma) are codeshared with Etihad ! :o

Anyone has more info about it ?
Etihad Press Release wrote:Etihad Airways is to extend further its expanding global network by providing its customers with access for the first time to destinations in Scandinavia, following the expansion of its existing codeshare agreement with Brussels Airlines of Belgium.

Under the deal, which comes into effect on October 6, the Abu Dhabi-based airline will place its two-letter ‘EY’ code on Brussels Airlines’ flights from the Belgium capital to Oslo in Norway, Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland and Copenhagen in Denmark.
http://www.etihadairways.com/etihadairw ... rlines.htm

BTW These Scandinavia flights are often upgraded from ARJ to 319 or 737 lately...

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sdbelgium wrote: BTW These Scandinavia flights are often upgraded from ARJ to 319 or 737 lately...
??? Helsinki was from the beginning a destination where SN flew its A319.

BTW: Sri Lankan is now also code sharing on the leg BRU - AUH

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Atlantis wrote:Helsinki was from the beginning a destination where SN flew its A319.
But nowadays it is almost every day a RJ85 or RJ100...

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http://airlineroute.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... light.html

Sun Air is cancelling Brussels-Berne as from 26 Oct.
The link is talking about Brussels - Brno but I suppose it will be Berne.

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pijaleu wrote:Sun Air is cancelling Brussels-Berne as from 26 Oct.
Since that route is an extension of Billund-Brussels, will the correcponding flight from Billund also be cancelled or only limited to Brussels?
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Effective 27OCT08 Jet Airways will upgrade BRU-JFK from daily 332 to daily 77W. This plane will be based in Brussels and will only fly BRU-JFK-BRU.

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sdbelgium wrote:Effective 27OCT08 Jet Airways will upgrade BRU-JFK from daily 332 to daily 77W. This plane will be based in Brussels and will only fly BRU-JFK-BRU.
Strange move from 9W... I thought the LF on the BRU-JFK leg of this flight weren't quite good?

Wouldn't it be a good idea for 9W to base all six planes in BRU and designate them to specific legs, regarding to capacity? This way they could also introduce single terminator flights BRU-India or BRU-NA without having to ad a second leg...

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sdbelgium wrote:Effective 27OCT08 Jet Airways will upgrade BRU-JFK from daily 332 to daily 77W. This plane will be based in Brussels and will only fly BRU-JFK-BRU.
I reported this already on 22 September.

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LH has loaded the Air Dolomiti flights out of MXP in their timetable. Twice daily flights will start on 2 March 09 in addition to the current daily Air One flight:

MXP 0845 BRU 1020 (Air Dolomiti)
MXP 1305 BRU 1440 (Air Dolomiti)
MXP 1755 BRU 1925 (Air One)

BRU 0925 MXP 1055 (Air One)
BRU 1110 MXP 1230 (Air Dolomiti)
BRU 1525 MXP 1655 (Air Dolomiti)

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Conti764 wrote: Strange move from 9W... I thought the LF on the BRU-JFK leg of this flight weren't quite good?
Jet Airways was evaluation all its current routes and cuts those who not perform very well (domestic and international). There was no single reason to cut any excisting route to/from Brussels Airport.

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A new partnership deal with the British carrier bmi, will allow Brussels Airlines to add a further 3 destinations to its passenger offer: Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and East Midlands.

Entering into force on 26 October, the codeshare will allow Brussels Airlines to offer its customers a total of 9 destinations in the United Kingdom, which means nearly 300 flights per week between Belgium and Great Britain.

Thanks to this partnership agreement, Brussels Airlines and bmi will have a joint commercial offer that comprises all of their flights to and from both airlines’ regional destinations in the UK. Brussels Airlines will therefore sell the 3 daily flights operated by bmi between Brussels Airport et Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and East Midlands, while bmi will include in its daily offer flights operated by Brussels Airlines between the capital of Europe and Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle. All flights will carry both companies’ codes ('SN' et 'BD').

Source: http://company.brusselsairlines.com/en/ ... :140-19145

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VEX802 wrote:A new partnership deal with the British carrier bmi, will allow Brussels Airlines to add a further 3 destinations to its passenger offer: Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and East Midlands.
Reported earlier on Luchtzak

The press release does not mention what will happen to the codeshare with BA on the routes from Brussels to London Heathrow and Gatwick. Neither does it mention what will happen to the codeshare with BE on the Brussels-Southampton route. The codeshare with BE on Brussels-Manchester will certainly go down the drain.

Any information on this?
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sn26567 wrote:
VEX802 wrote:A new partnership deal with the British carrier bmi, will allow Brussels Airlines to add a further 3 destinations to its passenger offer: Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and East Midlands.
Reported earlier on Luchtzak

The press release does not mention what will happen to the codeshare with BA on the routes from Brussels to London Heathrow and Gatwick. Neither does it mention what will happen to the codeshare with BE on the Brussels-Southampton route. The codeshare with BE on Brussels-Manchester will certainly go down the drain.

Any information on this?
To me, it seems quite obvious the codeshare with BA and BE (if the latter still exists?) will end very soon. I don't think BA will be very amused with the tie-up of SN and BD... Like the saying goeds "van twee walletjes eten" - I don't think BA will allow SN to do so ;-)

Anyway... this is just guessing of course, but from a commercial point of view, it is very difficult to retain this double act.

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Hi all,

Since they mention clearly in their press communication that they will serve 9 destinations in UK (SN/BD together), it means that SN continues flying to Gatwick and thet BD and/or SN continue the LHR route. personally I think SN will continue LHR with BA (at least during winter season) and that this will change only later. Otherwise they would have mentioned also LHR as a joint destination. In an interview with Davignon in 'De Morgen' some time ago he mentioned that one of the reasons for chosing LH was that the codeshare with BA would have come to an end anyway (?) ... (htis might have been an error from the journalist, but it can also be true). The end of the codeshare with BE was announced earlier ...

I am curious when codeshare with LH to Germany will start (since this will add Bremen, Nurnberg, Hannover, ...).

I saw in the last issue of B-there that SN will have also other codeshares starting this winter season (some of them already metnioned in this forum): Bangalore, Toronto, Bangkok, Riga, Umea (!!) and Ljubljana (from 1 to 3 flights /day in codeshare with Adria Airways) (!!).

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DannyVDB wrote:I saw in the last issue of B-there that SN will have also other codeshares starting this winter season: Bangalore, Toronto, Bangkok, Riga, Umea (!!) and Ljubljana
Bangkok (via Delhi) with Jet Airways is already there!
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After one year, Brussels Airlines is going to suspend its service to LJU. No reason was given why. Maybe the total number of fequenties as too low?

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