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This week I was for the first time on one of the leased A222-300 of Air Baltic ... Nice experience, very professional crew, announcements (recorded) also in French and Dutch (véry Dutch :D ). I checked the use of the 4 planes and I see that YL-ABH is currently not flying for SN (see https://sites.go...

Or they can make more money elsewhere

One of the challenges for Cyprus is that it is quite a lengthy route, so costly ...

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Does anyone know how the operations of airBaltic for SN are going? Are they satisfied with the punctuality and flight operations so far? I believe that there is not a huge increase in pax for the moment bcs of the 4 extra Air Baltic planes. And this bcs 4 of the own SN planes are in maintenance. Th...

One of the unserved destinations is Larnaca. 33.000 pax are currently traveling to Belgium via connecting flights. Huge potential here. Not only holidays but second real estate and business 33k pax wouldn't even fill two weekly return flights (type A320 or 738) if you capture all those pax. No pote...

And 3 flights to Dubai, I forgot ...
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Hi all,

I see that tomorrow there will be extra flights to some intercontinental destinations: 2 flights to Bangkok, 2 flights to Abu Dhabi, 2 flights to Beijing ...

To pick-up pax that stranded today due to the strikes I guess ...

Cheers,
Danny

In the meantime there are already 3 Air Baltic A223 active for Brussels now ... I guess the fourth will come in a bit later ...

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It seems OO-SFQ is going also to the paint-shop, on 3rd of April ... The plane is not anymore in the list of A333 of LH.

I assume OO-SFJ will be back by then (?)

Regards,
Danny

Seems SN will make use of the Air Europa plane again? See https://sites.google.com/view/europeanairlinefleets/bel I assume that is because one of their planes is not yet back from painting and next weekend starts the summer season with flights going up to the US: JFK from 5 to 7/w and 5/w to Washing...

Does anyone know how many positions for repainting they have at Chateauroux? The same question for the maintenance facilities in the Philippines ... At a certain point there were 3 A330 in maintenance there ... Regarding OO-SFQ (currently D-AIKM): it is still in Manila. Will it go also to the paint ...

Dear all, I found this interesting thread https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1500597&sid=40f2e2858a10e09801cda8cab6dea21c It is even more interesting since I saw the pax figures for 02/2025 at BRU: since years the top-ten countries included the US. Not anymore so, now number...

Hi all, Just looked at our travel office platform to book a flight to Venice, leaving 9/04, returning 12/04 to go to the General Assembly of the EU Space Networks. Can see the flights to Venice are operated by Air Baltic then ... So it means that from the beginning of the summer season the 4 Air Bal...

Hi all, I was just reading the press release (see website SN) on the financial results of 2024. The results are really good, despite the many problems with the own long haul fleet last year (Spring-time), the lack of additional aircraft for serving secondary destinations in Europe, etc. I also read ...

The Air Europe B789 is more than welcome.

Don't forget that two A333 will be repainted (soon): OO-SFJ (in March) and OO-SFP (not clear when).

And OO-SFQ will only come in May, but when will it be operational?

Danny

What with the 11th A330 coming in? I assume that after its maintenance, also in Manila, it will come to SN, or does it first go to LH again for more operations in March - April? It was said that it would come only in May to SN, no? Or does it also go first to the paint shop?

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Couldn't temporarily hiring a long-haul aircraft be a solution? Other airlines do that too. They found serious corrosion issues on one of the two A330s in in mx MNL. Therefore, an Air Europa B787 will be wetleased from Feb 22nd to march 15th to tackle the issue. Corrosion seems not see easy to trea...

Dear all, Recently I saw on the website of BRU many flights of SN to Kittilä, Finland. This is always under number 1XXX, so not part of the regular flight programme. If they can offer so many, why not making it in winter time part of the flights you can just book? Next Sunday there are even two flig...

Hi all, One thing is to get the slots, another thing is 'filling' them. For example, if I am not wrong, ANA has daily slots for Narita-Brussels but not necessarily fill/use them; but no other operators want to use them, so they are there but not used ... The same for India, other places in China, no...

Only in the summer season (for the time being) ...

Indeed no worries :D I just saw that OO-SFH is coming back to Brussels. It flew yesterday from manila to Abu Dhabi. Will do the Abu Dhabi - Brussels section this evening/night. It is scheduled to do BRU-JFK already on Sunday (5/01). That seems a bit optimistic to me ;) ... At the same time OO-SFG wi...