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Are you sure SNBA is making profit on european network? isnt'it their african network that is bringing the profit???

If U want no meal then go with virgin express for 80,21 taxes included.

Plenty of things to do with the 30 euros you would spare...

Couldn't he take Hélas Jet??? I find it a shame OUR olympic team not flying a OO registered aircraft to the games!!!

Can you imagine yourself driving to South of France and running out of fuel somewhere on the highway??? Of course not!!!
Knowing they burned less fuel on the way in (by comparing the actual burn versus their flight plan), they might be concerned about burning more coming back.

I think the Retard call is proper to new airbus and is just a reminder to tell pilots it's time to put thrust levers in idle position, in accordance with what the computer already did.

We never know what the future is made of, maybe SNBA will be renamed something like Virgin Europe and VEX will stay Virgin Express

Hard to see it's a 340, they fly so far from the ground now...

To Sabena_690

The low prices of SNBA are exactly the problem!!!

VEX is a low cost, it means that the organization of a flight should cost less to them than to SNBA (and I'm sure that's the case) ; and as VEX is actually losing a lot of money, I believe SNBA must lose much more money in that ...

Guys, don't you think that if VEX is having less pax in january, the same will happen to SNBA, as they fly from brussels as well???

Don't you think neither that if ,as you say, SNBA and VEX are having the same fares, than SNBA must loose a hell of money???

Those are bad news for everybody ...

To Dany VDB

My feeling (right or not, I don't know) is just coming from general info those companies are releasing, just wondering how SNBA with two times more aircraft and employees than VEX, but with more or less the same number of passengers could do it ? Except if, as we can see, their african ...

I guess both VEX and SNBA have to find an agreement quite fast : SNBA's european network doesn't look profitable to me and VEX seems to lose a lot of money in the fares battle they're having against each other.

But as a VEX's fan, I am not sure a merge would be profitable for VEX and I hope Virgin ...

Just a question, both companies having the same number of pax (more or less) and the same ticket prices (read post above), how could the yield of VEX be worst than the one of SNBA knowing that VEX has two times less employees and two times less aircraft???

The real question is how is SNBA doing this?

You DON'T have to pay but you CAN buy one.
Even for 12-13 euro, the total price of the ticket remains low compared to...

http://www.virgin-express.com/downloads ... index.html

Have you already seen it? It's on a lot of belgian tvs as from today.
I find it nice... (funny, non agressive, ...)

Don't forget that SLR B738 are fitted with the winglets which increase the performance quite a lot and studies...

I am sure you know they gonna use those aircraft to the limit (as everybody would) and again, those nice tools with winglets will have to fuelstop before reaching their goals!!!

On ...

For info, Dakar is at the limit for a 800, depending on the wind, if you fly with full pax (189 in charter seating), you will have to do a fuel stop!
It's a little bil like flying Egypt with a regular 400, when you're not lucky, you do a fuel stop going down, and anoter one coming back. 8O

I guess those guys won't forget to switch on weather next time!! Or at least they will now keep clear of red areas
Anyway, it's a pitty for that brand new 737, must be a lot of money to fix it

Is the 320 a good choice??? Cheap to buy but expensive to run (maintenance) and for me less reliable than a Boeing!

About a low-cost flying to and from major airports, there is already one in bru.

I don't think they will see me in one of their planes...

I agree with you but is it really a wise time (economic situation) for a company to change/renew painting of their aircraft?
I guess (hope) passengers are able to realize that the painting of the aircraft does not make it fly, as the one of their own car does not make it work better.