brusselsairlinesfan wrote:A dedicated topic about the brussels airlines NYC does already exist but... is this flight still in SN plans for the summer season?
Maybe problems with getting the right slots? Recently, around the time of the IATA conference in Singapore, I read something that SN was still looking for suitable slots at JFK. If they wouldn't find suitable slots at JFK on their own, they would try to get them through their Star Alliance/Atlantic ++ partners.
So I assume SN hoped to find good slots at the IATA conference, so they could announce the flights shortly after that (so around this time). But maybe SN didn't found the slots they want and they are now trying to find slots in another way (through their partners for example).
Anyway, just a guess, and I'm quite sure there is a good explanation for it. And I'm also quite sure SN will launch flights to JFK as planned anyway. It's not that they are in such an urgent need to announce the route that this delay will affect their whole plan. The route will be launched in June, not March/April, in that case I would say it is indeed urgent. (remember in 2010 the new routes to Africa were announced in February and launched in early July, but ok, I assume they want to start bookings to NYC earlier due to much more competition)
I fondly remember they added a red tag like "last luggage" and had a guy haul our luggage on a cart (not the automatic system!) to the plane.
