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Why on earth do KLM transport five times more passengers than SN ????

Because all Belgians are flying the dutch bird now...

Concerning the rest of your posting - you are right, unfortunately.

“There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.”
Napoleon Hill

In the news of 6:00 they mentioned 4 aircraft completely damaged.

One was identified as a C130.

who said that the name Sabena will be back ? i thought it was an april 1st joke

A swiss making such a quote...man, don't you feel the irony??

Just a very funny post I thought!

I get your point of view! Check out the website of Jetlink; that's for when you're even more desperate - 2 BMW's there (66thousands for 30hrs of Airbus sim and 500hrs line without pay & expenses... 8O

Maybe I'll join you when I get completely desperate too :lol: In a few months we're gonna believe ...

correction; TUI found some pilots so desperate that they bought a brand new BMW in the TUI showroom but will never get to drive it home, if you see what I mean...

This is not job creation; this is just short term, non-visionary, scrapulous business in its worst form.

BTW TNT is the one really ...

It would be an amazing fact if VLM would buy new aircraft. I think the major reason why they are succesfull today is the fact that they fly a fleet of old but nevertheless well maintained aircraft probably in a financially very interesting construction...

Problem is that they have to find a new ...

I don't remember the exact history but I remember it looked like a big soap in the news!

Yeah, let's hope the government will pay big time to the Belgian aviation community - same story for the swiss motherf*****s concerning Sabena.

Sorry for staying so polite.

It will be Eray Serimozu, the director of TO Mediterra

Wasn't that the same investor/owner of Constellation that went bankrupt some years ago??

http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/artikel.asp?Id=2130540

...in the news tonight there were rumours of Sobelair restarting...

to be continued!

You definitely have a point there!

Repairs is definitely a problem. With composites you always have the problem of secondary bonding. This means that a piece made in one process is always a lot stronger than made in 2 processes or just 'glued together' afterwards.
Another issue with composites is ...

February 2006

Virgin Express and Hub’Air are working together to provide high quality type rating. Virgin Express will provide the base training for the trainee and, for selected individuals, line training will be available.

Hub’Air announces its intention to provide Airbus A320 training to ...