Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

[brusselsairlinesfan]

A nice/logical/soft shift from the Avros to the airbusses finally!
Most surprising to me is this focus on Europe again instead of long haul. Is the planned 3rd US destination cancelled?

[tolipanebas]

Yes I already see that the Bilbao flight will now be operated on Airbus, no Avro anymore.

VCE will move to an all airbus service too, for instance, 3 times daily.

The RJs move on to EDI and other Q400 routes.

News on long haul expansion will come after summer....

[crew1990]

Regarding some member of the forum there will be no A330 added to the fleet because SN can t find it. But i find very strange that Hi Fly manageg to fing 3 A330-200 on second hands wich will join the fleet soon while SN doesn t find any!

In the mean time I checked the time table for the long haul flight of this summer and it will look like that:

Monday: Dakar/Banjul
Freetown/Monrovia
Abidjan/Ouagadougou
Yaounde/Douala
Kinshasa
Kigali/Entebbe
New York
(7 departures)

Tuesday: Dakar/Conakry
Abidjan/Cotonou
Yaounde/Douala
Kinshasa/Luanda
Kigali/Nairobi
Washington
New York
(7 departures)

Wednesday: Dakar/Banjul
Freetown/Monrovia
Yaounde/Douala
Kinshasa
Kigali/Entebbe
New York
(6 departures)

Thursday: Dakar/Conakry
Abidjan/Lomé
Yaounde/Douala
Kinshasa//Luanda
Kigali/Nairobi
Washington
New York
(7 departures)

Friday: Dakar/Banjul
Freetown/Monrovia
Abidjan/Ouagadougou
Douala/Kinshasa
Nairobi/Bujumbura
Washington
NewYork
(7 departures)

Saturday: Dakar/Banjul
Abidjan/Cotonou
Younde/Douala
Kinshasa
Kigali/Entebbe
Washington
New York
(7departures)

Sunday: Dakar/Conakry
Freetown/Monrovia
Abidjan/Lomé
Yaounde/Douala
Kinshasa/Luanda
Nairobi/Bujumbura
Washington
New York
(8 departures)

There is so an average of 7 flight per day for 8 aircraft. There is so some room for a third US destination like for axemple 4 weekly Boston or New York in the evening. There would even be still some rome to add some frequency in Africa!

[OO-ITR]

Possible candidate for one of the A319s joining SN fleet soon?



http://www.planespotters.net/Production ... -GECAS.php

[tolipanebas]

yep, 2 ex-frontier planes, it will be.

[brusselsairlinesfan]

Can t wait to see them enter the SN fleet! These birds are really needed to face some compétition @ BRU! Even if I would have thought about 1-2 A330s before...

[tapclassic]

I will miss the Avros, a highlight when someone arrives in BRU.
Myy face was surely priceless when I entered a 737-00 in Lisbon, looked out the window, and saw a winglet.
It was like "WTF"?
For a second I felt insane until I remembered the winglets could be retrofitted, never thougt someone would bother with 733...

[teddybAIR]

I think the winglets on the B733 was fitted when it was still flying for VEX if I remember correctly

[Konus]

Any idea about the msn of those 2 ex-Frontier planes ?

[OO-ITR]

Any idea about the msn of those 2 ex-Frontier planes ?

As stated a few messages higher one is 2700

And registration will be SSE

The other 2763 and will be SSF

[Desert Rat]

between 8 and 9 years old bird...

[Airbus A330]

And registration will be SSE

The other 2763 and will be SSF

Thank you very much, OO-ITR!

[Konus]

Thank you for the info.

Brgds

[OO-ITR]

On 19th of March SN next A320 OO-SNG left for SNN for her paintjob

[crew1990]

Nouvelair just stored her A321 TS-IQA, ex Sabena aircraft OO-SUA. Aircraft from 1999 so 15 years old.

Maybe a good oportunity for SN as they like to take back the old aircraft of Sabena.

[Airbus A330]

Nouvelair just stored her A321 TS-IQA, ex Sabena aircraft OO-SUA. Aircraft from 1999 so 15 years old.

Maybe a good oportunity for SN as they like to take back the old aircraft of Sabena.

TS-IQA became/is going to become D-ASTW for Germania.

[Konus]

TS-IQB, ex OO-SUB, will become D-ASTV Germania soon.

So both A321 will stay together.

[SFM]

On 19th of March SN next A320 OO-SNG left for SNN for her paintjob

Returned to BRU 26/3

[sn47031]

I will miss the Avro RJ's. I flew a lot with them for example from BMA with full powered engines for t/o due to the short rwy. Can an Airbus replace the Avro in BMA?

[Pocahontas]

No I guess, except if modified, as Meridiana uses A319 at FLR...