Brussels - post the winter updates here!

[Skystef]

If I'm informed correctly, the Dayton-flight arrives around 20:00 (so no night flight.)

And it departs @ 22:30LT, BRU-night starts @ 23:00LT (till 0600LT).

Brgrds S

[lumumba]

Hi everybody.
AF is gooing to fly Bordeaux daily.
Regards
patrice

[sn26567]

AF is going to fly Bordeaux daily.

Thanks, Patrice.

This had been reported elsewhere, together with the announcement that VEX would stop serving that route.

AF will use its regional subsidiary Régional to fly the route with smaller planes (ERJ 135). In addition to that non-stop daily flight, on weekdays there will be a one-stop flight by Saab 2000 via Clermont-Ferrand, also operated by régional.

[sn26567]

Air France/KLM look at Asia. Daily flight from Paris to Bombay. Manila direct and Jakarta via Kuala Lumpur (instead of Singapore), from Amsterdam by KLM.

This increases the number of seats available to Singapore from Roissy-CDG. This Air France flight is now operated by Boeing 777-300 codeshared with Qantas allowing Air France to serve Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaïde, Brisbane and Darwin with a connection in Singapore.

China is one of the big assets of Air France in the region. It is the only European airline offering non-stop flights from Paris to four Chinese destinations: Beijing, Shanghai (in cooperation with China Eastern), Hongkong and Canton (in cooperation with China Southern).

In Europe, Paris-Amsterdam is now becoming a shuttle operation. Fligts to Spain are reinforced in cooperation with Air Europa (14 daily flights Paris-Madrid). Same operation to Italy on Milan-Malpensa (9 daily flights) and Rome (13) in codeshare with Alitalia.

Domestically, Orly-Lyon has increased from 5 to 8 daily flights to compete with the TGV.

Paris-Bombay daily with Delta, as an extension of a flight from New York. This winter also Nice-New York increases from 4 to 5 weekly Delta flights.

Paris-Beirut with Star Airlines every Thursday and Sunday from Roissy-CDG 1. Return fare from 478 €. Star Airlines will also fly as a scheduled airline to Cancun (Mexico) and Varadero (Cuba).

Air Austral at Paris and Marseille: 10 weekly night flights Roissy-Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion. A third Boeing 777-200 from July will enable the airline to create a weekly Marseille-la Réunion every Saturday.

The Carribean for one euro. As an extension of its daily Orly Sud- Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France flights, Air Caraïbes proposes to continue to Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, the Grenadines, Cayenne for one euro.

[B737229]

Some additional flights for the winter season :

Ankara twice weekly with TK738
Bordeaux twice or 3x on weekdays AF EM120/ERJ135
kiev now 4x weekly with PS735, was 3x weekly. Additional flight on sunday
Istanbul 9x weekly with TK A320
Daily EMB170 from Milan Lin
Oviedo 4x weekly IB CRJ
Zagreb flights operated by ATR42 on tuesday and thursday

www.biac.be

[Avro]

Nice to see the A320 of TK will be a daily in BRU.

[Kapitein]

We received this today at work:

" Attn all,

Please note following new airline operating into Brussels :

ATLAS BLUE ( 8A - BMM )

Scheduled passenger flights as from 01nov04 to/from Agadir ( AGA ) / Marrakech ( RAK ). Atlas Blue is a subsidiary company from Royal Air Maroc.

Full handling BGS."

[blackhawk]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/629335/L/

Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 @ 4:27 AM CEST by sn26567

Latest Aviation OO-SBZ writes "On Monday 25/07/2004, Atlas Blue, the low-cost branche of Royal Air Maroc (Morocco), initiated operations with a flight from Marrakech to Lyon (France). The carrier will mostly operate from that city to destinations in Europe with a single Boeing 737-400. Yet Atlas Blue hopes to have 6 B737s in service by the end of the year."

[sn26567]

Any schedules yet? The OAG shows only AT flights.
To RAK: Fri and Sun night by 734
To AGA: Tue and Sat afternoon by 734

Atlas Blue is a subsidiary company from Royal Air Maroc.

Blue seems to be a favourite in the name of upstart airlines: JetBlue, Blue1, Atlas Blue, ... Who else?

[Robin_Bamps]

Blue seems to be a favourite in the name of upstart airlines: JetBlue, Blue1, Atlas Blue, ... Who else?

Blue Line, Bluewings,...

Regards, Robin Bamps.

[luchtzak]

Blue seems to be a favourite in the name of upstart airlines: JetBlue, Blue1, Atlas Blue, ... Who else?

Blue Line, Bluewings,...

Don't forget VirginBlue

[Avro]

nice to see another carrier in BRU

[Robin_Bamps]

Hello everybody,

Fellow-member qnnm told me in the chatbox yesterday evening that Lotus Air from Egypt will operate regular charter flights into BRU during the winter season. The first flight was flown yesterday (29/10) and the a/c used was SU-LBD.

Picture while parked on Terminal B :
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=273589

Regards, Robin Bamps.

[sn26567]

SN BA has just published its winter update. See press release: https://www.aviation24.be/article6305.html

[sn26567]

Isn't it strange that the SN press release mentions at length where they will be flying, but omits to mention where they will stop flying?

For example, nowhere is it said that SN stops flying to St. Petersburg. Exit the codeshare with Pulkovo! (On SN aeroplanes!)

[Sabena_690]

Wasn't LED announced as a seasonal service?

Frederic

[Flying-Belgian]

LED is seasonal and clearly mentioned as seasonal in the winter timetable.

FB.

[sn26567]

Meanwhile, Virgin Express stops the codeshare with Malmö Aviation on flights to Gotenburg and Stockholm. Normal, since SN takes over the codeshare...

[blackhawk]

Have I missed something but since when is US a codesharepartner of UA?

08/11 07:15 SanFrancisco UA 950 Delayed 08:58 Track
via Washington
08/11 07:15 Washington US 7292 Delayed 08:58 Track

08/11 10:20 Frankfurt LH 4572 Track
08/11 10:20 Frankfurt UA 8819 Track
08/11 10:20 Frankfurt US 5778 Track

[Sabena_690]

@BH: this has to do with US entering Star Alliance.

US is already putting its code for quite some time now on UA/LH flights to/from BRU.

Frederic