Air Belgium in 2018

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Re: Air Belgium in 2018

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Homo Aeroportus wrote: 31 Aug 2018, 21:40
TLspotting wrote: 30 Aug 2018, 19:28 Air Belgium is going to fly at least 6 times for BA between London Heathrow and Cairo on 3, 4 and 5 September :

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BA155 17:30 - 23:15 LHR-CAI A343
BA154 08:00 - 12:10 CAI-LHR A343
(Confirmed on Twitter by BA)

I can only imagine the face of a diehard Brexit Yes voter having booked a "BA flight" and boarding an aircraft with AIR BELGIUM billboard titles !

Arrrgh .....
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brussels airlines would have been even more ironic .... lfmao

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Regardless of what it says outside the plane ,inside I think they will get much better service and probably regret they have to do the other half of their trip on BA :)
If you look at some of the trip report videos online for BA their service seems pretty poor to put it mildly...

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Air Belgium on Twitter
Successful negotiations between Russian and Belgian authorities! Air Belgium has now secured overflights for increased frequencies and destination points and access to all Trans-Siberian routes. This result allows us to consider additional destinations!
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End of ops for Air France CDG-Lagos-CDG?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... e#1db6cd7e

AF104/AF149 is with A330-200 as from today:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af104

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Passenger wrote: 01 Sep 2018, 17:35 End of ops for Air France CDG-Lagos-CDG?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... e#1db6cd7e

AF104/AF149 is with A330-200 as from today:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af104
Indeed, Air France Ops terminated, to be replaced by the flights for BA.

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JustPlanes wrote: 01 Sep 2018, 09:24 Regardless of what it says outside the plane ,inside I think they will get much better service and probably regret they have to do the other half of their trip on BA :)
If you look at some of the trip report videos online for BA their service seems pretty poor to put it mildly...
Unfortunately I can only agree… in Y and Y+ you really feel like cattle… Probably on purpose… fly in C or F, or else…

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Meanwhile, OO-ABB says "Hi Belgium", from FL390:
https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW155/1dbcf053

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AB downgraded HKG ?

According to the booking system, only 2 flights per week between CRL and HKG as from now until 30 of this month....

Should take-off today, but they didn't...
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I had a chat today with the AF mechanic who was on the flight that got delayed in Libreville at the beginning of the AB operation for AF...that was not a technical delay, it was caused by a catering container that was loaded the wrong way in the hold and was stuck on the roller tracks.
The gabonese loader wanted to unstuck the container by breaking the cargo latches with a sledge hammer...when the AB captain saw the loader guy coming with the heavy hammer through the cockpit window, he went downstairs and ...of course...a more civilized way to fix the problem was used.

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Air Belgium is going to fly once again for British Airways from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi from 15 September until 4 October.

BA73 LHR - AUH 12:45 - 22:55 1234567 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:50+1 - 06:30 1234-67 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:45+1 - 06:25 ----5-- A343
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TLspotting wrote: 04 Sep 2018, 14:55 AB downgraded HKG ?

According to the booking system, only 2 flights per week between CRL and HKG as from now until 30 of this month....

Should take-off today, but they didn't...
friend of mine was booked on them in a couple of days but AB offered a free re-booking on their flight or the same date but with CX which he opted for as he needs to be in HKG now he's flying out of FRA to HKG
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Today's operations :

ABD is going to fly for the first time for AB as revenue flight... KF851

ABE is going to fly to Liège, as KF001 at 13:15l, will do some touch and goes at Bierset and should be back for 16:00l as KF002 at Charleroi.
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"Air Bee" got their US authorisation : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C8yOFV ... p=drivesdk
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TLspotting wrote: 10 Sep 2018, 18:18 Air Belgium is going to fly once again for British Airways from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi from 15 September until 4 October.

BA73 LHR - AUH 12:45 - 22:55 1234567 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:50+1 - 06:30 1234-67 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:45+1 - 06:25 ----5-- A343
OO-ABB positionned to LHR:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/oo-abb

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Passenger wrote: 15 Sep 2018, 13:02
TLspotting wrote: 10 Sep 2018, 18:18 Air Belgium is going to fly once again for British Airways from London Heathrow to Abu Dhabi from 15 September until 4 October.

BA73 LHR - AUH 12:45 - 22:55 1234567 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:50+1 - 06:30 1234-67 A343
BA72 AUH - LHR 01:45+1 - 06:25 ----5-- A343
OO-ABB positionned to LHR:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/oo-abb
Indeed, was expected for 09:30L but took off 20 minutes after.
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Looks like OO-ABD's first commercial flight is today in the end

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Aerofool wrote: 17 Sep 2018, 18:43 Looks like OO-ABD's first commercial flight is today in the end


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Finally...
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737MAX wrote: 17 Sep 2018, 20:42
TLspotting wrote: 17 Sep 2018, 19:15
Aerofool wrote: 17 Sep 2018, 18:43 Looks like OO-ABD's first commercial flight is today in the end


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