Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

[Airbus330lover]

nice colours

[OO-ITR]

DWA, end of Jan
DWJ, end of Feb
DWK, mid of Apr
DWL, mid of May
DWB, mid of July
DWC, end of Sep
DWE, mid of Oct
DWD, early Nov

Is this phase out schedule still applicable?

[lumumba]

I'm wondering how much more time they will take to announce the replacement of the A330 fleet M,N,O are slowly reaching the 25 years....
They had a lot of delays this last month I went to Dakar with 7 hours delay and I came back with 6 hours delay for my wife and I had to take the flight 1 day later....
I really think it's time to do something!

[DeltaWiskey]

Is this phase out schedule still applicable?

Yes, at least in that order. It is based on EOL times. Last revenue flight is usually around 4 weeks before end of lease.

I'm wondering how much more time they will take to announce the replacement of the A330 fleet M,N,O are slowly reaching the 25 years....
They had a lot of delays this last month I went to Dakar with 7 hours delay and I came back with 6 hours delay for my wife and I had to take the flight 1 day later....
I really think it's time to do something!

Long haul fleet renewal will be announced within the next few months. No later than March.

[lumumba]

Long haul fleet renewal will be announced within the next few months. No later than March.

Ok thx ...

[flymd11]

Brussels Airlines will expand the use of hired-in regional aircraft as it phases out a fleet of Avro RJ100s, the airline said Jan. 12.

The Belgian flag carrier will use three Sukhoi SSJ100 Superjets from Ireland-based CityJet beginning in April, when the aircraft start a two-year contract.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/brussel ... pril-2017/
http://atwonline.com/leasing/brussels-a ... -superjets

[Bralo20]

Curious to see if they are going to be painted in SN's colors.

[crew1990]

Checking flight radar for a couple of days now, i realized that SN is leasing 3 ERJ145

G-RJXB, G-RJXI and G-RJXM plus the G-RJXG which is doing BRE-BRU-BRE once a day.

So from April, the wet lease will consist in:

3 ERJ145 from BMI Regional
2 Dash Q400 from Flybe
3 SSJ100 from City Jet

[PttU]

G-RJXB, G-RJXI and G-RJXM mainly for Bristol, Nantes, Turin and Nuernberg?
G-ECOI and G-ECOK, the Dash Q400's mainly for Hannover?
Any educated guesses where they'll use the SSJ100? Which destination is too small for an A319?

[crew1990]

This is the wetleased flights of yesterday, it's almost everyday the same (nor on weekend day)

BMI Regional

9.25 Nantes G-RJXB
9.50 Bristol G-RJXI
10.25 Strasbourg G-RJXM
13.40 Strasbourg G-RJXI
15.25 Nuremberg G-RJXB
15.30 Turin G-RJXM
16.45 Bristol G-RJXI
20.35 Nantes G-RJXI
20.55 Bremen G-RJXG
21.20 Bristol G-RJXM

Flybe

9.20 Hanovre G-ECOK
9.55 Billund G-KKEV
15.50 Billund G-ECOK
17.20 Hanovre G-KKEV
21.00 Billund G-ECOK
21.10 Hanovre G-KKEV

ASL France

9.25 Paris F-GZTD

[crew1990]

And here the Avro's flight

6.30 Basel OO-DWC
9.30 Stockolm OO-DWE
9.35 Birmingham OO-DWL
10.05 Marseille OO-DWC
14.00 Bologne OO-DWD
14.40 Edimbourg OO-DWL
16.10 Basel OO-DWE
16.30 Birmingham OO-DWK
17.10 Stockolm OO-DWB
18.55 Copenhague OO-DWC
19.15 Stockolm OO-DWD
21.05 Marseille OO-DWK
21.15 Edimbourg OO-DWE
21.15 Birmingham OO-DWJ

[Shengenzone]

G-RJXB, G-RJXI and G-RJXM mainly for Bristol, Nantes, Turin and Nuernberg?
G-ECOI and G-ECOK, the Dash Q400's mainly for Hannover?
Any educated guesses where they'll use the SSJ100? Which destination is too small for an A319?

Bromma ? Or is that strip even too small for an SSJ?

[PttU]

G-RJXB, G-RJXI and G-RJXM mainly for Bristol, Nantes, Turin and Nuernberg?
G-ECOI and G-ECOK, the Dash Q400's mainly for Hannover?
Any educated guesses where they'll use the SSJ100? Which destination is too small for an A319?

Bromma ? Or is that strip even too small for an SSJ?

Is the SSJ allowed to land and take off at London City Airport or is that still pending? And I think VLM was interested in the SSJ as well a few years ago, so STOL-ports shouldn't be an issue.

[DeltaWiskey]

SSJ is not certified for LCY, but is able to fly into BMA (limiting factors at BMA are rwy length and noise constraints, not steep approach path like in LCY). There is currently project in place that should enable the A319 to be operates into BMA by the end of 2018.

The primary destinations for SSJ will be BMA, EDI, TXL, BHD, PRG, MAN, MXP, VIE.

[crew1990]

But EDI isn't suppose to go airbus? And why would TXL, PRG, MAN, MXP and VIE move to SSJ while those flight are operated on airbus.

Does it mean that it would be additional flights?

[Yuqu12]

But EDI isn't suppose to go airbus? And why would TXL, PRG, MAN, MXP and VIE move to SSJ while those flight are operated on airbus.

Does it mean that it would be additional flights?

MXP is only 1 airbus flight per day, there are 3 flights a day.

[Jaguar]

Some drama just posted on hln

http://m.hln.be/hln/m/nl/960/Buitenland ... oudt.dhtml

[crew1990]

Regarding the french media, the SSJ will stay with the City Jet livery

[sn26567]

Regarding the french media, the SSJ will stay with the City Jet livery

It seems to me that for a 2-year contract they could paint them with an SN livery (the CRJ900s leased to SAS are in SAS livery!).

[DeltaWiskey]

The SSJ will come straight from the factory in a Brussels Airlines c/s.