On 29 August, one of the endless aviation24.be forum topics reached a staggering 1,000,000 views: Brussels Airlines’ fleet renewal, originally created by forum member RoMax back in 2010.
Originally, the topic started to discuss the AVRO RJ and Boeing 737 replacements, during the years the topic turned out to be a very popular one: an average of 340 daily views to check out the 166 pages.
The topic will continue to grow – 3311 messages have thus far been posted in the topic – as a fleet renewal is an ongoing project: this year alone nine aircraft entered the Brussels Airlines fleet: 3 Airbus A320 (OO-SNJ/OO-SNL/OO-SNM), 4 Airbus A330 (OO-SFB/OO-SFC/OO-SFD/OO-SFE) and 2 Airbus A340 (OO-SCW/OO-SCX for Eurowings)
Brussels Airlines’ fleet in 2006 (48)
- 14 AVRO RJ-85
- 12 AVRO RJ-100
- 6 British Aerospace BAe 146
- 5 Boeing 737-300
- 5 Boeing 737-400
- 3 Airbus A319-100
- 3 Airbus A330-300
Brussels Airlines’ fleet in 2018 (58 + 4 on order)
- 22 Airbus A319-100 (compared to 2006: + 19)
- 15 Airbus A320-200 (compared to 2006: +15)
- 4 Airbus A330-200 (compared to 2006: +4)
- 10 Airbus A330-300 (compared to 2006: +7)
- 2 Airbus A340-300 (compared to 2006: +2)
- 5 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (compared to 2006: +5)
Other continuous forum topics
- Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective (461,000 views)
- Boeing 787 news (434,000 views)
- Korongo Airlines: THE END (popular between 2010 and 2015)
- Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future (since August 2009)
- News from THY – Turkish Airlines
