Rwandair can't accommodate a lot of traffic from South Africa to Belgium: JNB-KGL arrives in Kigali, a few hours after KGL-BRU has left. And for CPT, the schedule is also quite unfriendly: first CPT-HRE-KGL (dep 15h30 local), then 4 hours waiting time in Kigali for KGL-BRU, departing at 02h30 a.m.rwandan-flyer wrote: ↑08 Apr 2022, 09:00Flights to Cape Town leaves Kigali in the morning via Harare and back to Kigali in the evening. Almost same timetables for Johannesburg flights with a stop at Lusaka.sn26567 wrote: ↑07 Apr 2022, 15:02What are the connection times? People don't like losing hours at an intermediate airport. Ideally, it should be between 2 and 4 hours in both directions.rwandan-flyer wrote: ↑07 Apr 2022, 11:35 I m curious to know how many pax RwandAir carries between Johannesburg / Cape Town and Brussels. They serve Brussels 3 times a week, Cape Town 3 times a week and Johannesburg 10 times a week.
BRU-KGL flights leave BRU in the evening and arrives early in the morning and for the KGL-BRU
Flights to Cape Town are operated mainly with CRJ-900* and B737-700 / 800. About Johannesburg, mostly B737-800s and few times A330s
Depennding period (winter or summer iata season) you are to wait for at Kigali between 2 and 4 hours in both directions.
* In Africa, many airlines uses regional aircraft on some long distance flights for a regional aircraft. Ethiopian Airlines uses sometimes its Q400 to Tanzania and Rwanda. Kenya Airways uses its ERJ to Kinshasa, Douala, Cape Town (daylight flight), Johannesburg, Douala, Bangui, Lusaka, Harare, Mauritius and Seychelles. Air Peace (Nigeria) uses its Embraer E2 from Nigeria to Senegal,...
Belgium is a huge partner for the Western Cape goods exported, so it means that Air Belgium can probably also make profits thanks to the huge cargo demand. Cargo doesn't need to make a connection via Doha, Dubai, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Istanbul, Amsterdam,....Johannesburg has direct cargo links with Belgium but no Cape Town. Gain time
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In deed number of passengers is probably very low.
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I wonder how they fill in their (real) business class on their routes.
Anyone has an idea of their loads in business?
Anyone has an idea of their loads in business?
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Sunday's KF-885 Baku-Chengdu (B747-8-F OE-LFD) returned to Baku after one hour. Departure eastbound was at FL330, then FL170 for a few minutes, then FL330 again for a few minutes till a 180° turn. Return back to Baku was at FL180-FL140.
Aircraft seems to be AOG at Baku:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... d#2bdedae0
Aircraft seems to be AOG at Baku:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... d#2bdedae0
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By the end of this summer, Air Belgium will change to a completely new passenger reservation system as well as a new internet booking engine. This will offer more functionalities, new services and a greater convenience to the customers. Niky Terzakis announced this via his Facebook-page this morning, five years after the launche of the airlines first website.
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Air Belgium is adding A330-200s to the fleet according to CH aviation.
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Former A6-EYN from Etihad Airways it appears !
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
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Thank you for inputSR20 wrote: ↑25 Jul 2022, 13:39 Former A6-EYN from Etihad Airways it appears !
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
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Were they not considering flying to the USA ? I wish they would have an afternoon flight to JFK. Might AA be interested by a code-share ?
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I do not think this is specific for Air Belgium, but when an airline announces changes that will benefit passengers, it usually means the opposite (with a few rare exceptions)
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Indirectly related to Air Belgium:
Air France-KLM looks likely to take full commercial control of CMA CGM Air Cargo, which is restructuring its fledgling business – but has only until 01 December 2022 to form a full cargo agreement.
Air France-KLM looks likely to take full commercial control of CMA CGM Air Cargo, which is restructuring its fledgling business – but has only until 01 December 2022 to form a full cargo agreement.
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besides A6-EYN , Former A6-EYU seems to be reserved for Air BelgiumSR20 wrote: ↑25 Jul 2022, 13:39 Former A6-EYN from Etihad Airways it appears !
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-1521.htm
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Again with an Austrian registration? They should be called Air Austria! Since Belgian governmental organisations are shareholders of Air Belgium, I wonder why they don't insist on having a Belgian registration.B737229 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 15:56besides A6-EYN , Former A6-EYU seems to be reserved for Air BelgiumSR20 wrote: ↑25 Jul 2022, 13:39 Former A6-EYN from Etihad Airways it appears !
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-1521.htm
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The leasing company is registered in Austria.sn26567 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 21:48Again with an Austrian registration? They should be called Air Austria! Since Belgian governmental organisations are shareholders of Air Belgium, I wonder why they don't insist on having a Belgian registration.B737229 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 15:56besides A6-EYN , Former A6-EYU seems to be reserved for Air BelgiumSR20 wrote: ↑25 Jul 2022, 13:39 Former A6-EYN from Etihad Airways it appears !
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-832.htm
https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a330-1521.htm
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So what? All the Brussels Airlines aircraft are leased from foreign companies and still registered in Belgium.
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These are the registrations while in storage, nothing definitive.
We don't even know for how long they will be leased; no need to register an aircraft in Belgium for - let's say - a single month of operation with Air Belgium.
We don't even know for how long they will be leased; no need to register an aircraft in Belgium for - let's say - a single month of operation with Air Belgium.
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At the moment, both aircraft are not operated by Air Belgium and have their rental registrationsn26567 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 23:05So what? All the Brussels Airlines aircraft are leased from foreign companies and still registered in Belgium.
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Will you ever understand that the BCAA is a total mess, and that getting some aircraft registered as OO-xxx can be a real pain in the a**?sn26567 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 23:05So what? All the Brussels Airlines aircraft are leased from foreign companies and still registered in Belgium.
Nobody cares where the planes are registered.
Shareholders will care if they loose months with planes grounded due to paperwork though.
Why don’t you contact the BCAA?
Perhaps you’ll start to get why when you get their automatic reply by email.
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If you had written "passengers do not care" where aircraft are registered, I would have agreed. "Nobody" is a stretch. I doubt lessors and insurance companies would let Brussels Airlines register their aircraft in Armenia if they wanted. Regulators would certainly not let the planes take off from BRU.
Speed of service is a factor, but not the only one. The FAA is about 6 months behind in processing aircraft registration applications, yet I don’t see airlines rushing to establish trusts in the Virgin Islands to register their aircraft faster… Maybe because a duly completed registration request can be used in lieu of actual registration if the registrant was smart enough to reserve a N-number.
Any EU airline can register their aircraft anywhere in the EU (and a few other places). Out of convenience and political expediency, most airlines register their aircraft where they are based, but clearly there are exceptions.
Austria and Ireland are popular places because their registrars are very efficient and local laws on deregistering and repossessing aircraft are very “friendly” to lessors. Generally, the worst a lessee’s financial situation is, the more a lessor is going to insist on lease terms dictating where the aircraft can be registered. Cost and speed of service are factors as well.
A sizeable portion of TNT Airways' fleet was registered in Austria. Same can be said for ASL Airlines Belgium, including (I think) all its 747s. I don’t know enough to tell whether their finance or need for quicker service than the BCAA provides is the primary factor.
Registering an aircraft outside of an airline’s home country does come with some headaches though. For one, typically the country of registration is responsible for oversight of the aircraft unless there are arrangements made at the government level (e.g., Austria and Germany have agreed that German authorities are responsible for German-operated aircraft registered in Austria). That means complying with their laws, filing their forms, and if the country of oversight wants to come and check out how a foreign operator runs their airline, they are not exactly taking out the government credit card and hitting the Ryanair web site…