2014 Charleroi airport (CRL/EBCI) latest news

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BSCA remains the 4th best low-cost airport in the world, according to the World Airport Awards of Skytrax.

Number one is London Stansted, followed by Berlin Schönefeld and London Luton.

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Wizz Air discontinues Belgrade on 6 May.

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[crlhub]

New FR destinations from CRL for the Winter.

More frequencies also:

viewtopic.php?p=297798#p297798 (English)
http://www.air-journal.fr/2014-04-25-ry ... 04832.html (French)

[Passenger]

Charleroi, March 2014 : -8 % (compared to March 2013).

unofficial source:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/942/Economie/a ... ntem.dhtml

[crlhub]

Do not forget that Easter holidays were taken in april(very late)this year.

[theeuropean]

Ryanair today in a news/press conference in Athens stated there will be one more aircraft based there. There will be 2 new routes: Rome-Ciampino and Brussels-Charleroi that will be flown. They will start in September. Frequency is not yet known, but I am assuming it will be daily.

Source: Greek Air News on fb, airliners.gr

[airazurxtror]

Said to be 14 weekly flights ATH-CRL and 28 weekly ATH-CIA :

http://news.gtp.gr/2014/04/29/ryanair-a ... k-website/

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Said to be 14 weekly flights ATH-CRL and 28 weekly ATH-CIA

In the Ryanair jargon, that means one daily flight CRL-ATH and two daily flights ATH-CIA (and return of course).

[tangolima]

Said to be 14 weekly flights ATH-CRL and 28 weekly ATH-CIA

In the Ryanair jargon, that means one daily flight CRL-ATH and two daily flights ATH-CIA (and return of course).

Hello

First ATH flight of FR from CRL will be on 04SEP14

Greetings,

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Profits down 5% at Charleroi Airport

BSCA, the company managing the airport of Charleroi, closed 2013 with a profit down nearly 5% to 9.59 million. The market share of Ryanair is 82.7%, down 0.4% in favor of Wizzair and Jetairfly.

In 2013, passenger volume rose 4.13% to nearly 6.8 million passengers (6,786,979 passengers) compared to 2012 ( 6,516,427 passengers). At the same time, sales recorded an increase of more than 5%. It stood at nearly 61 million (60,951,284 euros) last year against about 58 million in 2012 (57.946.38 euros). These figures will be presented at the General Assembly of 20 June.

In detail, they indicate that Brussels South Charleroi Airport (BSCA), the company that manages the airport remains in the black figures in 2013. But profits last year were falling to 9,587,970 euros, down 4.93% compared to 2012 (10,085,242 euros). "The decline in earnings was due to higher labor costs and amortization of work done in 2013. There is also the development of pirate parkings which impacted our commercial non-aviation revenues. But we are above what we budgeted in 2013", explained Jean-Jacques Cloquet, Managing Director of BSCA.

Employment up
Indeed, the item "salaries, benefits and pensions" represents an amount of 29,837,908 euros in 2013, an increase of 3.82% compared to 2012 (28,738,923 euros). The annual report states that the company has hired additional staff to cope with the increasing number of passengers. A total of 25 workers were recruited last year, bringing the total staff to 434.57 equivalent full-time employees.

After deduction of various reserves, the company proposes to allocate a 5.761 million dividend distribution to the shareholders. The private shareholder Belgian Airports (SAVE, ex-Holding Communal) should receive a preferential dividend of 1,593,000 and other shareholders (Sowaer, Sogepa, Sambrinvest, Sabca, Igretec) will share an ordinary dividend of 4,168,000. BSCA also reduced its debt, which decreased from 39.6 million in 2012 to about 37,660,000 in 2013.

Market share of Ryanair down
BSCA recognizes to be always dependent on its main customer (Ryanair). But the market share of the low cost airline has dropped a bit: 82.7% in 2013 against 83.1% in 2012. At the same time, Wizzair and Jetairfly saw their market share grow slightly. That of the first rose from 6.3% in 2012 to 6.8% in 2013 and that from the second is 10.2% in 2013 (vs. 10.1% in 2012).

Ryanair's market share is expected to continue decreasing in 2014 thanks to the arrival of the Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines and the launch of activities by Ryanair at Brussels Airport. Although Ryanair has confirmed that Charleroi is its main base in Belgium, BSCA considers through its development in Zaventem Charleroi will lose a total of 600,000 passengers in 2014. It seeks an extension of hours (6-24 instead of 6:30-23 currently) to operate as in other surrounding airports.

Full article (in French) in L'Echo provided by Passenger

[Desert Rat]

Quite an interresting news about LCC flying transatlantic...next stop CRL?

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http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-201 ... 00722.html

[danieln]

Quite an interresting news about LCC flying transatlantic...next stop CRL?

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http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-201 ... 00722.html

No immediately I'm afraid. The route between Newfoundland and Dublin is flown by... Boeing 737! And I guess that a flight between Charleroi and St Johns is not possible with a full 737. But who knows, in future?!

[kleineboy]

New route wizzair from Charleroi to Timisoara in Romania. 2/7
02-11

source: http://www.goedkoopvliegenclub.nl/nieuws-3.html

[airazurxtror]

http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_ ... id=8315629

extract :

L'aéroport de Charleroi devient trop étroit. Il est donc question d'agrandir le terminal et, notamment, d'augmenter le nombre de portes d'embarquement. 30 000 m² supplémentaires devraient voir le jour en 2018. Le coût des travaux estimés s'élève à 100 millions d'euros.
Cela devrait permettre à l’aérogare de posséder un terminal propre aux départs et un autre destiné aux arrivées. Ce qui devrait aussi résoudre les problèmes de parking et notamment celui concernant le dépôt des voyageurs.
Mais on n’en est pas encore là et, avant d’entamer le moindre chantier, la procédure veut qu’une enquête publique soit effectuée auprès des riverains. Cette dernière a donc été lancée cette semaine.

Charleroi Airport is now too small. It is therefore planned to expand the terminal and, in particular, to increase the number of gates. 30,000 m² are expected to be added in 2018. The estimated cost of the work amounts to 100 million euros.
This should allow the airport to have a terminal for departures and another for arrivals. This should also solve the parking problems.
But before starting any project, the procedure is to conduct a public inquiry among the neighbours. It has been launched this week.

[kleineboy]

Polish start up 4You Airlines start november 1 with flights from Brussels or Charleroi to Lodz and Rzeszow 2/7

source: http://www.goedkoopvliegenclub.nl/nieuws-3.html

[MrG4]

Polish start up 4You Airlines start november 1 with flights from Brussels or Charleroi to Lodz and Rzeszow 2/7

source: http://www.goedkoopvliegenclub.nl/nieuws-3.html

Will be Charleroi

From Lodz :
Bergamo (begins 5 November 2014), Charleroi (begins 3 November 2014), Dortmund (begins 4 November 2014), Girona (begins 3 November 2014), London-Luton (begins 4 November 2014), Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 3 November 2014), Rome-Fiumicino (begins 6 November 2014), Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 9 November 2014)

From Rzeszow :
Bergamo (begins 3 November 2014), Charleroi (begins 3 November 2014), Dortmund (begins 3 November 2014), Edinburgh (begins 3 November 2014), Girona (begins 3 November 2014), Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 3 November 2014), Rome-Fiumicino (begins 3 November 2014), Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 3 November 2014)

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4You Airlines has thus far sourced three A320-200s from Ukrainian operator, YanAir for charter services. It does not have an own Aircraft Operator Certificate but instead its flights are operated with EuroLOT flight numbers.

Information from ch-aviation

[Passenger]

Today in Belgium's State Gazette (Moniteur / Staatsblad):

SERVICE PUBLIC DE WALLONIE - Exploitation aéroportuaire

Un arrêté ministériel du 3 juin 2014 agrée, pour une durée de dix ans prenant cours le 3 juin 2014, la société « Newrest Group International SAS » pour prester sur l'aéroport de Charleroi-Bruxelles Sud des activités d'assistance en escale pour des services visés à l'annexe Ire, points 5.7 et 11 de l'arrêté du Gouvernement wallon du 24 mars 2000 réglementant l'accès au marché de l'assistance en escale aux aéroports relevant de la Région wallonne :

5.7. transport, chargement dans l'avion et déchargement de l'avion de la nourriture et des boissons;

11. catering.

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WAALSE OVERHEIDSDIENST - Luchthavenexploitatie

Bij ministerieel besluit van 3 juni 2014 wordt de vennootschap "Newrest Group International SAS" vanaf 3 juni 2014 voor tien jaar erkend om op de luchthaven van Charleroi-Brussel-Zuid grondafhandelingsactiviteiten te verrichten voor de diensten bedoeld in bijlage I, punten 5.7 en 11 bij het besluit van de Waalse Regering van 24 maart 2000 betreffende de toegang tot de grondafhandelingsmarkt op de luchthavens die onder het Waalse Gewest ressorteren :

5.7. het vervoer, het inladen in en het uitladen uit het vliegtuig van voedsel en dranken;

11. catering.

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From 29MAR15, Wizz Air will increase the frequency on Warsaw – Brussels Charleroi from 7 to 11 weekly.

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Wizz Air will increase frequency of flights to Budapest from 13 to 14 weekly in early 2015.