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And future OO-SBA (now F-WWIJ) made a test flight yesterday at 16:45 (landed back at 17:21) Is it the SN pilots that are doing the tests or rather pilots from Airbus? Typically the customer does a test/acceptance flight before delivery, more if issues are found. Some airlines skip that flight or us...

SN should keep focus in Africa and North America with its own metal or with its partners As long as these are two distinct strategic plans (one for Africa, one for North America), I agree. A strategy to connect both continents is not viable in the long term. COVID has slowed down the market shift, ...

So when the Covid-sh!t hits the fan Lufti turns to the government saying: “you need to save your airline” whilst when the government needs “their” airline for, paid, repatriation flights Lufti says: FO. Airlines don't operate repatriation flights out of the goodness of their heart. They charge the ...

oldblueeyes wrote: ↑13 Oct 2023, 15:06 So guys, what's the point here?

Second this sentiment.

If we're having a daily report of what doesn't fly, can we have that in a separate thread for those who care?

Though I suspect none of those posts are intended to be informative...

Boavida wrote: ↑30 Sep 2023, 20:12Any idea what these 'very exciting changes' are?

Reopening the lounge at terminal B? The Diamond lounges are definitely overcrowded.

Let's try to be fair and see the realities. I'm not the one who erroneously compared an A320 operated by a European airline to a CRJ700 operated by a US regional carrier. Your analysis is not wrong, but I don't see where the call for fairness comes from. The rest is all strategy for the traveler as...

Well, in a fair comparison the likely 1-2hours trip in the US would be with an Embraer 145 or a CRJ700 with a feeder regional airline. Which would come with a (US domestic) first class cabin, at least on the CRJ700 and most regional aircraft with 60-70 seats or more. I do agree that passengers who ...

The A330 (OE-LAC) is on the ground in Baku for 2 full days. Apparently Air Belgium does not need the aircraft for other operations during this period. Flight may be too long for the same crew to turn around and bring the aircraft back. Air Belgium would have had to position another crew the day bef...

As I can see on FR24, it's Air Belgium which is carrying the Red Devils to Baku (A330-200 OE-LAC), although Brussels Airlines is one of their official sponsors. Any reason for that? Because the extremely marginal benefit of a 2-second shot of players boarding a Brussels Airlines plane during the ne...

So a company wetleased an aircraft with air Belgium wich in return wetlease an aircraft of Getjet to operate this flight? What's the point? Why not directly wetleased Getjet? Contract between AirBelgium and the customer for all of the customer's wetlease needs irrespective of capacity? Customer/bro...

SN should stay with Airbus, but SN deserves (imho) better than always getting second-hand aircraft. Of course, it depends on the age, but anyway... New aircraft need less maintenance and use less fuel, which in turn improves the financial results. This is more a reflection of German (note I didn't ...

Leaving 1 aircraft for a 30h rotation is not optimal. Far from it. It's one of the mistakes that AB is making with those JNB-CPT flights, Those rotations leave little to no room for other flights and frankly, I can't believe they make profit off those flights. Not optimal indeed, yet British Airway...

DannyVDB wrote: ↑09 Aug 2023, 07:33 So the total increase is from 37 to 49/week for these 4 destinations. Quite an expansion ...

1 more aircraft based in BRU?

sn26567 wrote: ↑09 Aug 2023, 23:02

OO-JFP wrote: ↑09 Aug 2023, 22:29 OE-LFI B748F left today for Marana via Bangor.
Last flight for Air Belgium?

Or D-check? 8 years old is still very young for a B747-8.

Likely a C check. Not a ton of facilities around. Flying TATL to do the check not that surprising. Delta used to ferry flights to HKG for C checks.

I'm not saying that this in itself would justify SN acquiring some as well, but I wonder how they (the sisters) justify the use of that type. If SN is reportedly having difficulties finding qualified cabin crews to staff the A320, an A321 will only compound the issue as it is one more crew member a...

Am I only seeing a half full glass so to speak but isn't SN having a bit too many AOG, too many technical incidents ? On what basis do you conclude that? AOGs may be more visible at Brussels Airlines because the fleet is small and highly utilized. Airlines that have 200+ aircraft don't have the sam...

Makes you question the quality of maintenance at Brussels Airlines... :? It's not the quality of Brussels Airlines maintenance I question the most after reading this post. Poor maintenance practices from whoever changed the tire last (tires do get changed away from BRU by local maintenance provider...

I wish them all the luck. If everything works out fine, they could even replace SN as the de facto 'flag carrier'. Does anyone know what BRU's position towards AB is? BAC is quite focussed on SN, which is logic, but if Niki Terzakis can do what he says in the interview, in the loger term AB could h...

i do not see them start more activities out of BRU, as grandmother LH seems to block any intercontinental developments for SN. Curious to find out how Lufty would stop UA from adding flights to BRU if they so chose. You are aware that LH and UA have a transatlantic JV and share cost and revenue 50/...

UA has more daily connections via AMS to USA (5) than they have out of Brussels (3); Despite the obvious aviation links, maybe not the right place to address this because one of the several explanation heads straight to politics... As in the political choices that result in Belgium being replaced b...