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Thursday, August 24, WAW-BRU on SN metal. As discussed in other threads, (SN) Brussels Airlines is about to go thru a few changes in the coming months. Last Thursady, a crew was discussing it loudly among themselves oblivious to the numerous passengers listening... Rumors or inside info, it's hard t...

KLM find a very strong partner in Air France and they are also playing in a different allicance. KLM, NWA (and Continental) joined Skyteam on the exact same day! They're very much in the same alliance, together with Air France, KLM's main share holder. As Robin pointed out, it wouldn't make much se...

Also found an interesting article explaining why Continental was denied the right to start a direct Newark-Lagos service by Nigerian authorities in retaliation for a U.S. ban on Nigeria's new national carrier, Virgin Nigeria... Continental Airlines, the world's sixth-largest airline, cancelled plans...

A quick search revealed : 1. that Delta used indeed to fly 3 times a week from JFK to Cairo with their own aircraft. Service discontinued following 9/11 (destination still served using AF codeshare) 2. that TWA also used to fly LAX-JFK-Cairo 3. that DKR would replace Sal as fuelling stop on the west...

I'll stand corrected but I'm quite sure that Delta used to fly to Cairo with their own metal just a couple of years ago... They also code share with Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca and of course they use their Skyteam partners to code share to many other African destinations. More than "new immig...

PrivatAir seems to be doing well... I've had the chance to fly 3 times with them from Dusseldorf and they offer a very convenient product. And apparently flights from DUS, MUC and ZRH have good load factors, so AMS should do ok too... MaxJet Airways also started their one-class (C) service between J...

And could a 330 fully loaded fly nonstop from JNB to BRU?

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Didn't I read somewhere on these forums that both Swiss and Iberia were going back to offering light snacks for free?
Same thing is happening in the US were more and more airlines stop charging for food as sales didn't meet targets...

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Interesting report there! Funny how points of view or experiences can vary... I will agree that Delta's fleet needs some serious upgrade and renewal but I only ever had extremely nice, friendly and professional crews on int'l flights. Domestic legs can be quite different IMO. Lunch was an "Enjo...

Maybe we can find the solution in the new winterbrochures. If there are some new far destinations we get the answer. But it's still a rumour, for so far no futher news of new destinations or airplanes on the site of Jetair. Indeed Atlantis... Another possibility could be for their winter flights to...

They are looking for pilots with a license for B767 at the moment as well, while they have enough for the OO-TUC already, so some of it must be true! :D I thought they were looking for pilots because their 767 was not etops, resulting in longer flights and longer duties for their crews... Be carefu...

You forgot the Air France Group and Skyteam logos!

So this is becoming a pattern for holiday travel from BRU: You book your package vacations with Jetair or VIP Selection and you might end up on a Futura plane iso TUI Airlines... You book with Thomas Cook or Pegase and you could find yourself on board Martinair or EuroAtlantic iso their own planes o...

I'm speechless...

*sigh*

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@B737229: Hotmail has offered 250Mb for months now and will probably follow yahoo to 1Gb next month... (okay, not in Belgium, but almost anywhere else, so it's worth changing your address to any larger market) @andries: Gmail currently offers over 2Gb and it keeps growing (it's actually kind of funn...

Thanks for the info.
Do you know if it will be shown on the main channel or on the Discovery Wings channel?

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Thanks a lot for the info, Robin.
I wasn't aware of that.

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Well I'm happy to report that as far as I'm concerned, I didn't notice any disruption at all.
My flight to ATL went smoothly, just a few minutes late...

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Once again stunning!!!
You can always rely on Virgin ATLANTIC for the most beautiful machines and the best service!

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Possible oneworld new members: Asia: Japan Airlines, China Eastern, Air China (CX has its 10% stake) Europe: SN Brussels Airlines, Swiss (if LX fail to merge with LH) Africa: Ethiopian? (South African -> Star , Kenya Airways -> Sky Team) North America: Alaska Airlines (Good relationship with AA and...