I arrived by train at Brussels National around 7 o'clock, check-in was very fast and I asked window seats. Then I went to the self-service and while I was eating, I saw the wonderful OO-SFN and OO-SFO being prepared for another flight to Africa.
GOING:
I had to walk a bit to reach my gate A54. I was very happy to see that the flight would be operated by the A319 (OO-SSK). Boarding was on-time. While going on board, you could take some newspapers and the connect-magazine. I took connect and the only dutch newspaper 'Het Laatste nieuws'
I had a nice window seat: 16F with a good view. The leather seats were very comfortable and the leg space was huge 
. The loadfactor in the economy class was 80%. Pushback was a bit too late, but in the meantime the captain gave us some information about our flight. Take off was around 9:49 (planned: 9:35). We climbed slowly to a height of 39000 feet. The crew gave us a good orange juice when we were at cruise level. Afterwards a sandwich (gouda) and a drink. You could also get tea or coffee. The crew was very professional and friendly. I was really surprised about the great service and comfort of SNBA. The plane began already half an hour before landing with its descent to Rome FCO. Before landing we had a lot of turbelence because the weather was very bad in Rome. We parked at gate B01 at 11:40, so the plane was exactly on-time.
The airport of Rome FCO is good, but not very modern (except the monorail). I had to stay there till 18:30.
RETURN:
I was quite disappointed to see an avro RJ100 (OO-DWH) ariving at gate B01 because an A319 was planned. OO-DWH arrived half an hour too late, but boarding was very fast. This time I had a bad seat: 7A. It should be a window seat, but there was just a 'half-window' and the overhead bin was too small for my bag. Altough my leather seat was very comfortable and clean. The load factor in economy was 100%
. The flight left Rome at 19:17 (40 minutes too late due a lack of staff at the airport of Rome). Again the crew was very kind and we got the same good economy class service: orange juice, sandwich, drinks, tea/coffee, cake and chocolates. We arrived 20 minutes too late in Brussels. SN Brussels Airlines is really a good company and I hope they will survive. Their staff, service and aircrafts are super!!!!
I am going to fly them certainly again. Just one tip: give better newspapers like 'De standaard', 'de Tijd' or 'De Morgen'.Pictures will come later, but the pictures of the meals are bad ...
