Nostalgy: Sabena's intercontinental network Summer 2000

[sn26567]

Courtesy of Airline Route (weekly frequencies):

Brussels – Abidjan – Cotonou 1 333
Brussels – Abidjan – Lome 3 333
Brussels – Atlanta 5 332 -05AUG00
Brussels – Bamako – Conakry 1 333 + 1 332
Brussels – Bamako – Ouagadougou 1 333 + 1 332
Brussels – Beirut 3 733
Brussels – Boston 7 333
Brussels – Casablanca 7 734
Brussels – Chennai 3 332
Brussels – Chicago 7 332
Brussels – Conakry – Banjul 2 333
Brussels – Cotonou – Douala 1 333
Brussels – Dakar 1 763
Brussels – Dakar – Banjul 2 763
Brussels – Dakar – Ilha do Sal 2 763
Brussels – Dallas 7 332 06AUG00-
Brussels – Entebbe – Nairobi – Brussels 3 M11
Brussels – Johannesburg 7 M11
Brussels – Kigali – Nairobi – Brussels 2 M11
Brussels – Kinshasa 2 343
Brussels – Lagos – Cotonou 1 333
Brussels – Lagos – Douala 1 333
Brussels – Lagos – Yaounde 1 333
Brussels – Luanda – Kinshasa 1 343
Brussels – Montreal 6 332
Brussels – Newark 3 332 + 4 343
Brussels – New York JFK 7 333 + 6 332
Brussels – Ouagadougou – Cotonou 1 333
Brussels – Tel Aviv 2 763 + 5 320
Brussels – Tokyo Narita 4 343
Brussels – Washington 7 332

My last intercontinental flight on Sabena was in 2000 on the latter (BRU-IAD and return...)

[luchtzak]

My last flight as passenger was on board MD11 to/from Johannesburg.

My very last Sabena flight I was working on was ..... BRU-LUX-BRU-LUX-BRU on the Schreiner Airways ATR72 !!!!

[ExSabena]

My last flight (long haul) was a IAD-BRU
My last flight (european haul) was a DUS-BRU on 5th november 2001

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

My first and last flight on a Sabena aircraft was the farewell flight of their B747-300 OO-SGC !
Won't mention my BRU-BKK-Phuket-BRU flight with SLR/SN codeshare...

Seems I started too late flying SN, ..

CX-B

[regi]

I said this some years ago, that in the late days of Sabena, you could see an advertisement with all their destinations.
And to be honnest, I didn't know all of them.
I wondered how many Belgians wanted to go to Chennai those days.

[sn26567]

I wondered how many Belgians wanted to go to Chennai those days.

The question should read "How many Europeans wanted to go to Chennai". Sabena had been designated by the Swissair group as their airline to serve Chennai.

[azingrew]

I believe the Chennai flight was succesfull. Before the proliferation of Indian airlines from/to the Us, many Indian natives, flew from the US on Sabena via BRU, particularly from ORD, as it was one the few foreign airline to serve the city. Also, there was a huge Indian community from that particular area, who lived in Leicester, England. So I guess there was a lot of trafic on the LHR- BRU - Chennai as well.
( Surprised to see BRU-YUL-BRU on a 330. Flew the route quite a lot and always had an MD11)

[regi]

I believe the Chennai flight was succesfull. Before the proliferation of Indian airlines from/to the Us, many Indian natives, flew from the US on Sabena via BRU, particularly from ORD, as it was one the few foreign airline to serve the city. Also, there was a huge Indian community from that particular area, who lived in Leicester, England. So I guess there was a lot of trafic on the LHR- BRU - Chennai as well.
( Surprised to see BRU-YUL-BRU on a 330. Flew the route quite a lot and always had an MD11)

Thank you for the detailed information.
Just 1 remark off topic: I thought that the Indian community in Leicester came mostly from the other side of the country, from Gujarat.
I work with a company from Leicester and all instructions in the company are bilangual: English and Urdu, the language of this particular Gujarati community.
But please correct me if I am wrong.

[BrightCedars]

Would you believe it, my last flight on Sabena metal was SN3282 BEY-BRU operated by A320 in March of 2001!

It was so nice to feel home until you reached your destination, and to feel right back at home as soon as you stepped on the plane wherever you were coming back from. Don't have this feeling with Brussels Airlines.

[andorra-airport]

I work with a company from Leicester and all instructions in the company are bilangual: English and Urdu, the language of this particular Gujarati community.
But please correct me if I am wrong.

Gujarat people don't speak Urdu in general, but Gujarati. Although Urdu (and Punjabi and Bengali) are BIG languages in the UK.

Don't know exact situation in Leicester though.

[travellover]

Yes nostalgy !

sorry no flight in summer 2000 but maybe another topic should complete this one

BRU-CAI travel with a Boeing 707-200 (october 1979), 1. Brussels - Cairo (outward journey). Homeward journey with Lufthansa (CAI-MUC-FRA with an Airbus A 300 B2 and FRA-BRU with a Boeing 737-200 (november 1979).

BRU-NBO travel with a DC 10-30 (return) : 1. Brussels - Nairobi (april 1984) (outward journey in first class because of a lack of space in economy class), 2. Nairobi - Brussels (april 1984).

BRU-JFK travel with a Boeing 747-200 (return) 1. Brussels - New York Kennedy (july 1992, AF leasing and homeward trip with "OO-SGA, Aunt Agatha" : great plane with a nice adornment (Brussels town hall), 2. New York Kennedy - Brussels Airport (july 1992).


Ps : intra-european flight to be complete.

BRU-LHR with a Boeing 737-200, thrice : 1. London Heathrow - Brussels (august 1983), 2. Brussels - London Heathrow (october 1983), 3. London Heathrow - Brussels (november 1983).

[WC_EEND]

My last (and only Sabena flight) ever was a BRU-BCN return in 1994 on a 732 (according to my parents, because I was only 3 at the time).