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by Araneus
22 Jun 2015, 08:34
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Move Brussels Airport to a new place (ask the NIMBY's)
Replies: 49
Views: 15564

Re: Move Brussels Airport to a new place (ask the NIMBY's)

There is an easy solution for the problems around EBBR. Just start buying houses in the most troublesome areas: Zaventem, Diegem, Humelgem, Steenokkerzeel and Wambeek. This is a progressive process, by use of something called 'voorkooprecht'. In a number of years most of the houses will be in the ...
by Araneus
22 Nov 2013, 09:08
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines
Replies: 16
Views: 11067

Re: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines

So, compensation is possible based on the fact that they left the people on the plane for more than 6 hours in Zürich, without food/drinks. The first food they received was in the hotel around 19:00. They ate the last meal on the plane before landing probably around 4:30 in the morning. That's a ...
by Araneus
17 Nov 2013, 19:45
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines
Replies: 16
Views: 11067

Re: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines

This captain didn't even have the option to return. They lack the rating for a cat. III IILS approach. The whole day the visability was just not enough for them.

The most terrible thing is letting the passangers, already having a flight of more than 11 hours, sit for an extra 7 hours in the plane ...
by Araneus
17 Nov 2013, 11:02
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines
Replies: 16
Views: 11067

Re: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines

At 6:00 conditions in OST were not good enough, visability being only 200 m. Later that day it was 3000 m. At that time the plane was already sitting on the tarmac in Zürich.

This disaster has cost Hainanairlines a lot of money. They dispatched a second plane to Brussels, the deviation, ... But ...
by Araneus
17 Nov 2013, 08:48
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines
Replies: 16
Views: 11067

Re: Horrorflight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines

Zürich used to be a base of Hainan. Now they don't have someone there. Passengers were left on their own in the terminal in Zürich, most of them not able to speak a english/french/dutch. Also they staff preferred to lie to the passengers, also to the passengers checking in for the return flight ...
by Araneus
16 Nov 2013, 23:56
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines
Replies: 16
Views: 11067

Horror flight HU491 Beijing - Brussels / Hainan Airlines

The flight of November 16th 2013 from Beijing to Brussels became a horror flight for the passengers on board. I had my father in law on board of this plane bringing back my 9 months old son.

This morning around 5:15 the flight was still scheduled to land at 6:35. After a brief time in a holding ...
by Araneus
12 Aug 2013, 11:16
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: China Southern: Xi'an - Sanya
Replies: 2
Views: 1212

China Southern: Xi'an - Sanya

Another bad experience in China, this time zith China Southern Airlines. It started rather well for our departure to Sanya. For some reason two of us (family, mother, father, children 3 and 6 years old) got tickets in business class. Funny thing about it, the children were in business class. We ...
by Araneus
07 Jul 2013, 11:06
Forum: Airline experiences and trip reports
Topic: China Eastern - Beijing - Xi'an
Replies: 0
Views: 1033

China Eastern - Beijing - Xi'an

July 4th, 2013, I took the 11:40 flight from China Eastern from Beijing to Xi'an. Boarding of this flight started normally at about 11:20. At about 12:00 lunch was served on the plane and we didn't even move one meter. An indefinite delay was announced! The plane started taxiing at 13:30! All ...