Air Mauritius pulls out of BRU

Flying-Belgian · Post by **Flying-Belgian** » 09 Jan 2004, 14:11

According to today's Travel Magazine, Air Mauritius is to pull out of BRU from 25th april onwards.

MK used to operate from BRU to Plaisance Apt non-stop with its 762ER or via ZRH with the A340-300E. According to this reliable travel agents magazine, this is done in order to optimize the 767 fleet use.
MK will focus on its other major European hubs (CDG, FRA, LHR, MUC,...).
The staff at BRU's ticketing office will also be reduced as it'll become off-line.

A very sad news again for EBBR

FB.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 09 Jan 2004, 14:13

Again a wide body that won't come back to BRU

If it goes on, there will be no more long haul flights to and from BRU in the future

Chris

Flying-Belgian · Post by **Flying-Belgian** » 09 Jan 2004, 14:14

I forgot to mention that they operated it as a weekly flight.

FB.

Post by **sn26567** » 09 Jan 2004, 14:35

As a retaliation, I will not spend my next vacation in Mauritius

liebensd · Post by **liebensd** » 09 Jan 2004, 15:20

André,

I hope that you can spend your vacation in Thailand as a support for Thai if they will start operations to Brussels.

Greetz,

Dave

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 09 Jan 2004, 16:19

No surprise, was supposed to be "the honymoon flight", but the marriage ain't exactly getting more popular in Belgium

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Seriously now, we should be very happy that they kept the service so long, because Belgium isn't the big market they want it to be. They started services back in July 3 1994 with B767 later upgraded to B747SP/A340, but last years down again to B767. This latter fact was indeed a bad sign .

SS

Post by **sn26567** » 09 Jan 2004, 17:04

Is Geneva a bigger market? They maintain the flights there!

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 09 Jan 2004, 17:18

As predicted... I heard several months ago that BRU was one of the worst performing routes in the MK network

Frederic

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 10 Jan 2004, 03:55

Sabena_690 wrote:As predicted... I heard several months ago that BRU was one of the worst performing routes in the MK network

Frederic

BRU seems to be the worst performing route for many airline-networks!!!!

TWA

Flying-Belgian · Post by **Flying-Belgian** » 10 Jan 2004, 09:28

Weel, to answer some questions, I can tell you the MK flight was very often full !!! It depended on the season. Many friends of mine who wanted to take this flight as non-rev pax had to take a flight at CDG instead.

As far as Mauritius is concerned you can't even blame the yields. SQ used to blame the poor yields of the BRU-SIN route as it had many transit pax to Indonesia.

For me it's a surprise move from MK.

FB.

Flying-Belgian · Post by **Flying-Belgian** » 10 Jan 2004, 09:55

For those who can read french, a very interesting article I found from a popular Mauritius weekly magazine about MK's strategy :

http://www.lexpress.mu/display_news_dim ... ws_id=9832

Enjoy the reading !!!

FB.

Post by **sn26567** » 10 Jan 2004, 10:02

So, the client has more flexibility?

Instead of having to take the only weekly flight from BRU, he can go by Thalys to CDG, where he can take a daily flight.

But Air Mauritius seems to forget that the traveller by far prefers a direct non-stop flight to a flight with connections, even with a high speed train...

L-1011 · Post by **L-1011** » 10 Jan 2004, 23:53

sn26567 wrote: But Air Mauritius seems to forget that the traveller by far prefers a direct non-stop flight to a flight with connections, even with a high speed train...

Yes but Air Mauritius probably has high LF's in CDG that will be complemented by possible BRU passengers, so that's full benefit. If they keep the weekly from BRU they'll have to fill one every week, which they don't care about by sending the people to CDG !!

This is a cost cutting measure

improving figures

ciao,
TriStar

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 11 Jan 2004, 11:09

But why should they cut a flight, when it's often full like Flying-Belgian said. Even if this is seasonal

They could have only stoped the flights during the bad season, but instead they leave BRU completely.

Greetz
Chris

Post by **sn26567** » 11 Jan 2004, 11:15

Avro wrote:But why should they cut a flight, when it's often full like

The LOT representative in Geneva told me once that he needed almost daily flights to one destination to make it profitable: each destination means fixed costs (personnel, equipment, etc) that can only be recouped by multiplying the number of flights.

L-1011 · Post by **L-1011** » 11 Jan 2004, 23:39

sn26567 wrote: each destination means fixed costs (personnel, equipment, etc) that can only be recouped by multiplying the number of flights.

I don't agree with you on that one. They don't have to hire people if they only have one flight per week. Can't they use the services of a company like Aviapartner

But of course this is costly and only benefitial if the flight's full.

ciao,
TriStar

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 12 Feb 2004, 22:12

fftopic:
New game:
Search/find/catch A wide-body @ BRU... Sad to see, +/- 5 wide-bodys (passenger!) a day, isn't that much...

greettzzz

OO-VEX · Post by **OO-VEX** » 12 Feb 2004, 22:38

Jense wrote:fftopic:
New game:
Search/find/catch A wide-body @ BRU... Sad to see, +/- 5 wide-bodys (passenger!) a day, isn't that much...

greettzzz

Only 5?

I count more:
3 SN A330-300
1 AA B767-300 (soon BRU will get 2 daily AA flights)
2 DL B767-300
1 CO B767-400
1 UA B767-300
1 BA B767-300

OO-VEX

A318 · Post by **A318** » 13 Feb 2004, 11:23

Geeeessshhhh, you see that amount coming over your head in 30 minutes at Schiphol. Didn't realise it was so quit at Brussels.
Anyway, since Iberia flies from Brussels to Lima, in the future I will boost your economy again a little since Iberia is €500,- cheaper then KLM for 2 persons to Lima.

Greetz

Erwin

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 13 Feb 2004, 11:38

OO-VEX wrote: Only 5?

I count more:
3 SN A330-300
1 AA B767-300 (soon BRU will get 2 daily AA flights)
2 DL B767-300
1 CO B767-400
1 UA B767-300
1 BA B767-300

OO-VEX

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