Air Belgium in Memorian 2004-2009

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Air Belgium in Memorian 2004-2009

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Founded as SkyTravel in 2004, Air Belgium Virtual Airlines was Belgiums biggest fictive virtual flag carrier. How did the story began and how come is this your last chance to escape to the skies?

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Press Release
Air Belgium Virtual Airlines in Memorian 2004 - 2009

1. How the story of Air Belgium began
2. Air Belgium's ending story
3. Your last chance to escape to the skies

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1. How the story of Air Belgium began

Founded as Skytravel by Danny Stes in January 2004 we expanded through the next few months with new divisions. We started regional services under the name of Cityshuttle and even some Greek flights for the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 with Greek Sun. But because this was way to big and unmanageable we decided to re-think our strategy and keep one base, Brussels.

Air Belgium Virtual Airlines was born. With advancing months a new website was released and the number of pilots and destinations kept increasing. In June 2005 the new colorscheme of Air Belgium was released, announching a new era. For the thirth season, the year 2006, a complete new website and even better Air Belgium was planned.

On the 1th of January 2006 the new Air Belgium was released to the public. Air Belgium had chosen a new direction with a dynamic website, automatic flight logging, etc. The increase of pilots was overwhelming and Air Belgium became one of the leading virtual airlines in the world. Even bigger releases for the year 2007 where planned, known as 'Mega Project FlyABB QX2007'.

However, it never came that far...

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2. Air Belgium's ending story

In may 2007 the decision was made to move the Air Belgium website to another domain. This due to personal reasons of the formal webmaster. However setting up the website for Air Belgium seemed impossible, flying for the pilots was thus not possible at that time which resulted in a decreasing pilot roster.

There was a bit of light at the end of the tunnel when Air Belgium agreed to a takeover by a big German virtual airline. It was possible again to make flights and Air Belgium slowly started its operations again.

However after some time arguments started between the Air Belgium managment and the German carrier. Therefore Air Belgium eventually decided to become independent again.

Due to this brake-up Air Belgium was left with only a CEO and a handful of pilots. It was impossible to set-up Air Belgium again and therefore it was decided to end all flying operations as of December 2008...

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3. Your last chance to escape to the skies

The management of Air Belgium is very sorry for its pilots that the story had to end like this. Therefore we want to have a final 'Air Belgium - In Memorion' event for all our pilots and Air Belgium enthusiasts.

It was therefore decided to go back to Air Belgium's most succesfull period, season 3 and partly season 4 (2006 / 2007). In this way our pilots and enthusiasts can once more enjoy the world of Air Belgium, before we definately conclude operations.

As a matter of fact the good old Air Belgium is put back online including all downloads and extra's.

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We thus invite you to login again with your account and take your last chance to escape to the skies!

Visit Air Belgium at flyabb.com

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Ending words

Finally we want to thank everyone and especially our pilots for supporting Air Belgium. We hope we can conclude the era of Air Belgium with this final event and maybe we see Air Belgium back in the future in some other way.

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"Air Belgium - In Memorian - 2004 - 2009"

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Air Belgium - Eireflyer was an European virtual airline operated from hubs in Brussels, Luxembourg, Dublin, Antwerp, Liege and Ostend using a fleet of Bombardier, Airbus and Boeing aircraft across the globe. For more information please visit http://www.flyabb.com

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Re: Air Belgium in Memorian 2004-2009

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Sad to hear this news... Once upon a time Air Belgium was a very nice, professional virtual airline...

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It is a very sad thing. We at V-Bird VA want to put new life in Air Belgium VA, but we are not getting any response on our E-mails.

Is there anybody who knows who to contact.

Regards,

Cor de Bruin
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Unfortunately I didn't receive any mails about this subject, otherwise I would have replied asap :)

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Hello,

You have a personal mail now ;)

Regards,

Cor
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