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Passenger wrote: 17 Jan 2017, 22:08 Belgium and the Netherlands (and probably a lot of other countries) have issued a travel warning for the Gambia = a negative travel advice. Reason: political unrest after the president has lost the elections, with rumours of a forthcoming military intervention by some other African countries (like Nigeria).

TUI/Jetairfly has added a flight to Banjul on Tuesday to repatriate their clients (source: GVA.be).

The travel warning forbits Belgian touroperators to send (new) tourists to the Gambia. For the clients who are in the Gambia now, it's different. They cannot be forced to return with that extra flight, but when they don't use that repat flight, their return will be at own expenses.
https://www.aviation24.be/tour-operators/t ... ts-banjul/

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Brussels Airport and the aviation community win prestigious award:

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... ntiemaker/

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luchtzak wrote: 18 Jan 2017, 21:24 Brussels Airport and the aviation community win prestigious award:

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... ntiemaker/
The Award comes from Toerisme Vlaanderen = the tourism division of Flanders. Thus in Dutch only:

http://toerismevlaanderen.be/awards

http://toerismevlaanderen.be/awards#vakantiemaker


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As a threat, it will cost him a lot more !

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...for those who somehow missed this...

http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3abd27&opt=0
Incident: LATAM B763 at Sao Paulo on Jan 15th 2017, aircraft being shot at
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=192936

Some photos:
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Hope these FaBo-links still work...

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luchtzak wrote: 18 Jan 2017, 21:24 Brussels Airport and the aviation community win prestigious award:

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussel ... ntiemaker/
Toerisme Vlaanderen itself has communicated a bit too vague about this award. The Golden Holiday Maker 2016 Award hasn't been awarded to Brussels Airport, but to the Brussels Airport Community = to all people working at Brussels Airport.

"De awardsjury loofde de luchthavengemeenschap voor zijn veerkracht, vastberadenheid en samenhorigheid. Want dankzij deze mensen was onze belangrijkste internationale toegangspoort enkele maanden na de gebeurtenissen van maart 2016 al opnieuw volledig operationeel. Onder het leiderschap van CEO Arnauld Feist zorgden zij ervoor dat de levensader van het internationaal toerisme naar België en Vlaanderen binnen de kortste termijnen hersteld werd. Brussels Airport speelt een sleutelrol in het economisch succes van de toeristische industrie en internationale instroom in Vlaanderen..."

Google Translate says this means: "...The award jury praised the airport community for its resilience, determination and togetherness. Thanks to all employees, our main international gateway was fully operational, only a few months after the dramatic events of March 2016. Thanks to the leadership of CEO Arnauld Feist, all employees managed to reinstall the lifeline for the international tourism to Belgium and Flanders..."

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stratofreighter wrote: 19 Jan 2017, 13:15 ...for those who somehow missed this...

http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3abd27&opt=0
Incident: LATAM B763 at Sao Paulo on Jan 15th 2017, aircraft being shot at
Frightening, isn't it? It was mentioned in the Herald, but made little titles over here. It should!
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sn26567 wrote: 19 Jan 2017, 16:26
stratofreighter wrote: 19 Jan 2017, 13:15 ...for those who somehow missed this...

http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3abd27&opt=0
Incident: LATAM B763 at Sao Paulo on Jan 15th 2017, aircraft being shot at
Frightening, isn't it? It was mentioned in the Herald, but made little titles over here. It should!
According to police sources there was a shooting in a favela underneath the glide path during the time of the approach between Police and drug dealers. That could explain the bullet.

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The Aviation Herald today published its 20.000th report about civil aviation incidents, accidents and crashes. Excluding military flights, excluding aircraft with less then 19 seats.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3c074e&opt=0

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25th February 2005: a major robbery at AMS Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: diamonds, worth 72 mio USD were stolen from a secured building. Some diamonds were recovered almost immediately, in the getaway car. And few weeks later, the police arrested 5 men. But diamonds for 40 mio USD remained missing.

Yesterday, seven men were arrested in Valencia and Amsterdam, for involvement with that 2005 diamond robbery:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/2747 ... oof__.html

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Boeing, Airbus and Antonov had a nice chat on Twitter. And the winner is...

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A chance to fly Air France Boeing 787-9
airlineroute wrote:Air France in last week’s schedule update has filed planned Boeing 787-9 service on domestic route, scheduled on Paris CDG – Lyon route. The 787-9 will operate one daily flight from 29MAY17 to 28OCT17, as AF7640/7641.

AF7640 CDG0750 – 0855LYS 789 D
AF7641 LYS1025 – 1135CDG 789 D

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PH-BFL, a KLM 747-400, is going for triple gold: the longiest flight to nowhere in 2017, the longest delay of 2017 and the most reports on The Aviation Herald in one month.

The flight to nowhere happened on 16th Jan 2017, when KL-565 from Amsterdam to Nairobi made a U-turn southwest of Cairo, thus making it an 8 hour journey AMS-AMS. The reason was that "something on the wing was discovered to be loose".
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3a0a2d&opt=0

The long delay is ongoing right now. On Friday 20th January 2017, KL-736 from Willemstad/Curaçao to Amsterdam had to return to CUR because of a bird strike: http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3cf352&opt=0
Passengers were transported to hotels on Friday, and the Dutch press reports that the passengers were brought back to the airport on Saturday evening. But boarding was cancelled because the problem wasn't fixed, contrary to expectations. PH-BFL is still grounded at CUR now. KLM is sending over an empty 747-400, apparently PH-BFB as KL-9865, to bring home the passengers passengers from Friday's KL-736.
Edited: PH-BFB will land in CUR at 23h55 on Sunday evening, in AMS-time

PH-BFL's third report on AvHerald happened on 15th Jan 2017: "...PH-BFL performing flight KL-714 (dep Jan 14th) from Paramaribo (Suriname) to Amsterdam with 428 people on board, was descending towards Amsterdam when the crew received a cargo hold smoke indication, declared emergency and instructed emergency services to not open any doors. The crew advised they would vacate the runway and taxi to a remote stand... Emergency services did not find any trace of fire, heat or smoke..."
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a38635e&opt=0

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Airfleets.net:
http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-25356.htm

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Passenger wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 22:25 PH-BFL, a KLM 747-400, is going for triple gold: the longiest flight to nowhere in 2017, the longest delay of 2017 and the most reports on The Aviation Herald in one month.
OMG! Maybe time to retire this aircraft...
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sn26567 wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 23:27
Passenger wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 22:25 PH-BFL, a KLM 747-400, is going for triple gold: the longiest flight to nowhere in 2017, the longest delay of 2017 and the most reports on The Aviation Herald in one month.
OMG! Maybe time to retire this aircraft...
Rescue is almost there:
https://www.flightradar24.com/KLM9865/c3d503f

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Passenger wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 23:43
sn26567 wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 23:27
Passenger wrote: 22 Jan 2017, 22:25 PH-BFL, a KLM 747-400, is going for triple gold: the longiest flight to nowhere in 2017, the longest delay of 2017 and the most reports on The Aviation Herald in one month.
OMG! Maybe time to retire this aircraft...
Rescue is almost there:
https://www.flightradar24.com/KLM9865/c3d503f
PH-BFB has landed in AMS at 10h45 a.m. as KL-738, so the total delay is almost 52 hours. Thus no Guiness Book of Records.

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The Dutch travel trade is preparing tot restart the Gambia as from next week. As soon as the Netherlands lift the actual negative travel advice, bookings will be accepted.

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