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Mmmm... wouldn't have been 'rudder' instead of 'radar' ...

Well... we all know that TO's don't take their Belgian long haul passengers not a bit serious. Has been plain to see for the past few years. Still teh Belgian passengers seem to be dumb and happy

25L it was, touch down 2100CET
All other aircraft arriving in BRU were put in the holdings in the mean time

At the same time the movements go down and down, month after month...
When you compare this to neighbouring gateways our Australian friends must be wondering what they have gotten themselves into

MMZ is flying B767-300ER CSTLM into BRU this evening from LIS. On the road for TCB tomorrow ?

Don't worry about that. The DGAT will stick to it's usual 60MIN for 6 months before giving 90MIN. A very heavy burden for any airline indeed, and unheard of outside Belgium.

Brussels the center of Europe ? Stop dreaming, that center moved about 1500km east on May the 1st ...

In short, BRU airport is completely built the wrong way : the entrance/exit is in front of the long haul pier (non-schengen), whereas the pier used by the vast majority of the passengers is 10 to 15 mins walking distance ...

Very sad day for Belgian aviation, a company with a relative long history (founded 1996) and a very efficient and lean and mean operation leaving the scene, being absorbed by a far less efficient competitor (just compare the work forces) , who just happened to sit on a pile of cash which was by no m...

For those interested 1. all but one of the Birdy A330 pilots have been offered a contract with SNBA, a handful of them have not taken up the opportunity, preferring to fly elsewhere and make a better career 2. of the administrative staff of Birdy, only three have been offered a contract. All three h...

Someone asked how CityBird did on the MIA route : well, load factor was excellent but CTB still lost whopping amounts of money on the route, and as a fact on MCO as well. This why they were axed, together with LAX. Delsey only found out the same a couple of years later. These are mainly leisure rout...

Small correction : there are of course also only two flights on Tuesdays. Nevertheless, the SN A330's are having a well above average daily utilisation at 13.2 hrs per day, when compared to the world fleet. However the number of sectors flown per day is way above average, the leg between DKR and BJL...

TUI has reportedly prolonged contract with FI for the B767-300ER TF-FIB till October 15th (correction). This aircraft is also used by TUI for flights to Egypt (ie today operating to HRG) and explains the 6 days a week utilization and the rotational delays. Looks like there will be no 767 for TUB thi...

Small correction : CityBird had of course e-tickets for the scheduled flights to the US and Mexico, starting way back in April 1997. Reservations were mainly made directly through the call center of CityBird. But is is correct that no seats were sold by CTB on the charterflights, this was the busine...

Maybe it is also cruel to the company/airline, who has invested heavily in the type rating just to see it's investment run off after just a few months ? Maybe that company will in future no longer fund type ratings, and take only type rated pilots in, which again doesn't help the beginners. And thos...

SNBA is taking over the lease of the 3 Birdy Airlines A330-300 at the end of October. There is no discussion about that. The lease for these aircraft runs for another year after the takeover, after that SNBA can decide what it wants to do as far as the long haul is concerned. The A330-300 has an exc...

"TNT" Club Med contract is flown this summer by Islandsflug B737-300 TF-ELQ. This is a damp lease with Islandsflug pilots and TNT cabin attendants. These were trained in the last few days by ICB in LGG. Some of the ICB 733 pilots are Belgian.

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OOSFN is good for commercial service this evening, it is operating to Douala and Kinshasa (flight planned originally this morning) this time. OOSFO had an unrelated nose wheel steering problem in Dakar yesterday. OOSFM was indeed calling in in Dakar to deliver spares and SABENA Technics personnel to...

Engines CAN and DO travel by road as well... The damaged engine (in the mean time repaired) of OOSFN is being trucked at this moment from the UK to BRU, will be fitted to OOSFN in the course of Monday. OOSFO arrived back from SIN C8 check this morning in fine shape. Is operating Banjul and Dakar on ...