Boavida wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023, 17:58
This time, the PM flew to Israel with a private Lithuanian B737
Are we a third-world country? About time for Belgium to buy a decent government (medium-long range) aircraft! All countries have them...
That KlasJet B737 is a regular visitor in Melsbroek...
What a shame, indeed.
On top of hiring foreign companies iso using Belgian airlines, it's also KlasJet; they offer the worst possible conditions for their employees and clearly they have terribly poor standards. Look at avherald, some scary theories about them there.
rwandan-flyer wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 14:27
There are currently 2 Belgian Air Force A400Ms in DR Congo. One is leaving Kindu and another one is arriving at Kinshasa.
There is and there has always been a lot of traffic of the Belgian Air Force to/from the DRC.
Last week it was the Falcon 7X OO-LUM which was flying to Kinshasa and Kananga.
By the way, OO-LUM has been a long time in maintenance and is now back in service. But OO-FAE has not flown since 12 January, it's probably its turn to be under maintenance: both aircraft had a more than 10-year life before being leased to the Belgian Air Force.
A400M CT-03 is currently flying towards Jordan as BAF647, with a mission to drop 6 tonnes of food and relief supplies over the Gaza strip. The Belgian aircraft will remain a few days in Jordan in order to also drop supplies delivered by allied nations.
Yesterday, a Belgian Air Force F-16 took off from Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania to intercept an aircraft above the Baltic Sea that was not on the flight plan. They were later joined by a Swedish Gripen. Both allies visually identified the aircraft as a Russian TU-134 transport airplane.
This morning around 8:10 am BAF70 (the small jet) taxis to 25R for departure, holds short for a while, and then returns to the parking spot turning on the runway (during rush hour)...
What could be the purpose of this? Forgot something? problen? taxi training?
