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SN Brussels Airlines took delivery of its 2nd Airbus A319 on Friday (21/02/2003). The aircraft is registered OO-SSK.

Hi all,a few weeks ago Swa Dethier has e-mailed me some nice pictures of the Yak 52, visit Yak 52-pictures to check them out.greetings,luchtzak

Swiss Airlines will announce today after the Board meeting that it will reduce its fleet with 15 aircraft and scrap 800 jobs.

AirTran Airways, a low-fare carrier that flies mainly along the U.S. East Coast, is in talks with Boeing and Airbus for an order of at least 50 planes.

Watch the picture on www.airliners.net

It is reported that the new Belgian airline, Belgian Aviation Pride, will use a Boeing 767-300 on its Brussels-Lome (Togo) route and a Boeing 737 on its intra-African flights.

<r>The Independent has a report on the construction of the Airbus A380. Amazingly, a ship is being custom-built to ferry parts for assembly, a custom fleet of trucks are also to be used - with roads widened to suit. Oh and the assembly building is the size of two soccer pitches, and the height of an...

<t>Up to 400 jobs are set to go at budget airline Buzz when the carrier’s new owner, Ryanair, takes over in April, the GMB union has warned.<br/> <br/> About 100 redundancies were reported to have been agreed after the takeover deal went through last month, and Ryanair warned it could close down Buz...

<r>Ryanair launched last week its credit card that allows people to earn free flights. But read the small letters, The Guardian reported.<br/> <br/> This latest product is in line with Ryanair’s strategy to offer products on which its gets a commission. Most of the profits of the airline have been m...

<r>Bratislava-based airline Sky Europe, received a €3 million capital injection from an international consortium of investors. Among the new investors are the Slovak Post-Privatization Fund and Euroventures Danube BV, in both of which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) holds...

<r>Ryanair has admitted it keeps the airport charges and taxes of passengers who do not turn up for their flights. The Irish low cost carrier was recently accused of keeping the charges levied on 900,000 passengers who have missed flights, worth up to €27m. <br/> <br/> Information about this way of ...

<t>Emirates has currently 44 aircraft in its fleet. Its fiscal year ends in March. It plans to add 12 airplanes in fiscal year 2003/04. <br/> <br/> The airline is in talks with Boeing and Airbus to order new aircraft. Airbus holds 22 firm orders for A380s plus 10 options. It is expected that Emirate...

<t>According to Irish NCB Stockbrockers, Ryanair may consider moving its Charleroi Brussels South services from Shannon Airport to Kerry Airport if it is not possible to reach a suitable agreement with Shannon Airport operator Aer Rianta on this route when the contract on existing fees expires. Last...

After numerous delays, BerlinJet initiated flights February 10 from Berlin-Schoenefeld to Munich, Milan and Paris with aircraft leased from Icelandic carrier MD Airlines. But it seems the company already suspended operations.

<t>Capacity adjustment and the cost-cutting campaign helped Finnair improve its result last year. The result improvement was 31.5. million euros. The result for the financial year before taxes was 54.4 million euros.The current year, however, looks bleak because of the threat of war and the intensif...

<t>Ryanair Europe´s No 1 low fares airline today launched its service between Barcelona (Girona) and London (Stansted) bringing the total number of low fare routes from Europe to Spain to three. This new service to Barcelona is twice daily on Boeing 737-800 series aircraft offering high levels of ef...

A plane carrying 270 passengers, all members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran on Wednesday. All 270 passengers on board were killed.

An Air France Concorde carrying 47 passengers made an emergency landing in Halifax on Wednesday after developing engine problems. Air France reported that the landing was a precaution. The passengers finished the flight to New York on an Air Canada jet.

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<t>SN Brussels Airlines is pleased to announce that Geert Sciot will be joining the company as Vice-President Communication in the near future. He will lead the internal and external communications of the airline and report directly to Peter Davies, Chief Executive Officer and to Rob Kuijpers, Execu...