With SNBA to Florence an back

[sn26567]

Sounds like you had excellent service on your flights Chris, it is nice to get served drinks BEFORE take off, I've never had that, even with the one and only Sabena!

In fact, Comet, from my recent SN experience, drinks are served immediately AFTER take off, when the Fasten Seat Belt sign goes off. But in case of late departure, it happened they were served before take off

I want to fly with SN Brussels next year, I just have to find an accessible English airport where there is absolutely no question of the flight being done by British Airways as a code share! (Manchester is a severe problem, I don't know about Newcastle, that's another possibility).

From MAN, look at the SN flight number: if it starts with 2, the flight is operated by SN, if it starts with 5 you've got a BA flight...

[Comet]

Looking at the flight numbers might not help when I book my trips so far in advance (usually January for a September departure). A flight might be showing as operated by SN when I book in January, but when the summer timetable becomes operational in March, the flights might have changed to be operated by a code partner (a polite way of describing a BA operated flight).

I do really want to fly with SN and will go to any length to see that I do. It's only a pity that they don't operate from London City, then I could have the best of both worlds.

[Avro]

Thanks for nice report Chris.

I'm glad you liked it

But the Italian voice came out of a recorder of
course

Well, this should be changed. I'm sure SN BA has steward(esse)s who can speak Italian. Why are they not preferentially assigned to flights to Italy?

The same of course applies to other European languages.

That's a good idea , but complicates a lot the crew sceduling . Imagine if for all countries you should assign one special crew member 8O YOu'd need more staff which of course costs more

Ciao
Chris
8)

[Jumbolino]

What I saw SNBA has a LOT of four-lingual crew that's enough to serve Belgium, netherlands, germany, switzerland, france, austria .....

and on some my flights they served as well drinks prior to dep. even in ECO !

Jumbolino.