2012 Liège Airport (LGG) latest news

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amazing indeed
but its better than before, now they try to clean the mess
good news imo

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Ever heard of Hahn?

exactly my thoughts, HHN is allready the 4th largest cargo airport in Germany and is owned by FRAport.
Liège is not an option in my humble opinion

I'm not the only one to think it's an opportunity:
"Johan Vanneste ‏(Chief Operating Officer TNT Airways) @johanvanneste
Smells like an opportunity for Liege Airport: Lufthansa hit as Frankfurt night flight ban upheld http://reut.rs/HZFExN "

and today :
"Things could get very busy at Liege Airport in the coming years. Cologne/Bonn facing nightban for passenger aircraft: http://bit.ly/Io2DSK "

Nothing is done, but it's an opportunity : it mean what it means, let the best win.

That plus the fact that UPS confirmed that LGG will receive traffic from FRA:
http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... iques.html

All together, it looks good for LGG on the short term. For the long term, who knows, it may even be the jackpot.

[crlhub]

Merger forseen between CRL and LGG,like forr ADP.

http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... iques.html

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Quite an interesting one, only in NL

http://www.nieuwsbladtransport.nl/Nieuw ... fault.aspx

[a380bigbeast]

Is Icelandair Cargo moving from LGG to BRU or is it an additionnal service?

http://www.inforwarding.com/message.asp?message=50589

[Atlantis]

Is Icelandair Cargo moving from LGG to BRU or is it an additionnal service?

http://www.inforwarding.com/message.asp?message=50589

Hi a380bigbeast,

No they are not moving from LGG to BRU but as from today FI is starting their seasonal pax flight to BRU. Of course they are offering some cargo space in their belly.

[a380bigbeast]

Is Icelandair Cargo moving from LGG to BRU or is it an additionnal service?

http://www.inforwarding.com/message.asp?message=50589

Hi a380bigbeast,

No they are not moving from LGG to BRU but as from today FI is starting their seasonal pax flight to BRU. Of course they are offering some cargo space in their belly.

OK. Thanks Atlantis.

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Some night pics :
http://www.mst-aviation.nl/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=30574

Some pics from the exercice a few weeks ago
http://t.co/wOK09mL2
video : http://www.rtc.be/reportages/262-genera ... ge-airport

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I feed you with a wishful scenario ...

NL : http://www.lloyd.be/Article/tabid/231/A ... fault.aspx
FR : http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_ ... id=7793506

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The trend is now pretty clear, LGG is loosing 10% of its traffic this year.
Because :
- Kalitta and Southern air are now using Leipzig for refueling their US army flights (any idea why ?)
- CAL and El-Al seems to carry less fruits and vegetables

They just announced a .5 millions economy plan on a total budget of 40 millions, which is a very small adjustment of the budget. The 210 jobs are preserved but they canceled all students summer jobs.

FR : http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_ ... id=7798656
NL : http://www.express.be/sectors/nl/logist ... an-aan.htm

[willem]

Only Southern Air @ Leipzig is a flight for DHL (LAX-LEJ-HKG-LAX) with 2 different 777's.
Kalitta are doing BAH & HKG (& CVG from time to time). (for DHL)

Logical explaination would be that they have better MX support @ Lej due to their contract with DHL.
(And probably also cheaper fuel, because DHL has it's own fuel supply at Leipzig)

Haven't seen military flight from them over there, that's mainly North American Airlines (757 & 767), Ryan International Airlines and used to see World Airways a lot , that seems to have stopped...

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I feed you with a wishful scenario ...

NL : http://www.lloyd.be/Article/tabid/231/A ... fault.aspx
FR : http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_ ... id=7793506

tweet "MOU between LA and ACT Airlines with Jean-Claude Marcourt."
More info later today I guess

[airazurxtror]

On "LaLibre.be" :

Un protocole d’accord signé aujourd’hui fait de Liège Airport l’aéroport privilégié de MyCargo Airlines (ex ACT) pour les opérations charter cargo, une compagnie basée à Istanbul. L’accord a été conclu par José Happart, le président de l’aéroport et Omer Sungur, le directeur d’ACT Airlines.

[liege-bierset]

I hope Mr José has improved his command in Turkish... before signing.
This company is a regular visitor at Vatry and Chinese conglomerate NHA has now 49% in the venture.

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Tons of freight transported through Liege Airport have dropped by nearly 9% from
January to June 2012 (compared to the same period in 2011)

[LJ]

According to Aircargonews, cargo volume at LGG dropped 18% to 41,996 tons.

http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single ... dives.html

[simulator]

As I've mentioned before, it's high time that EBLG management wakes up!
Maintaining Liège purely as a cargo hub is playing with fire - never put all your eggs in the same basket...
Diversify the airport, stop the (heavy) political influence; there's nothing wrong in trying to save TNT operations, on the contrary, but that should not stop the management from looking around for other opportunities, how small they might be at present, they could become important for the whole airport and area in the future....
At present all initiative from (private) investors/projects is being killed by the 'tunnel-vision' of the present management.
Pity that such a potential is being thrown away....

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I can't agree more ...
Sadly, I think they are trying to attract new companies, but it is constantly failing : thai, egyptair, NCA, my cargo, ...
It's already 3 years there is nothing new in LGG and if they loose TNT, it will be again a potato field very soon.

If you know anything about hidden projects, please share ...
Many times, people know a lot of hidden stuff about LGG but nobody speaks.

And the bad news keep coming :
"Tons of freight transported through Liege Airport have dropped by 18 % from August 2012 compared to August 2011, with 41,996 tons of freight (instead of 51,512 tons in August 2011)"

We can expect something like -10% or even -12% on a year base.

[liege-bierset]

As I see it, at least when news are not good for LGG, it makes some people very happy on this forum.
After the rain, comes sun...
For TNT workers as well (I hope). They don't care too much about stats.

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Strange thing happening ...
Seems myCargo will fly LGG-IST 5/w starting this monday

http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.a ... 7_00206212
(video included)

In addition or in replacement of Hahn ... that's the question ...