Sabena from the regions?

[chrisflyer]

Dear all,

I was wondering whether any of you have any recollection of the sort of flying Sabena was historically doing from the regional airports in Belgium (ANR, LGG, OST, CRL?). I recollect operations between BRU and LGG on Twin Otters, flights between some of the regional airports and LON with Fokker F27s (?) and later ANR-LCY with Schreiner Dash 8s.

Any more insights into other routings, international destinations from regional airports, periods of operation, frequency, equipment, etc would be very interesting.

Many thanks.

Happy landings,
Chris

[airazurxtror]

In his book "De Sabena à Air France", Olivier Wilmart describes his flights LGG-OST-LHR, twice each weekday, with a Swearingen Metro OO-LAW, from Publi Air, but in Sabena colors (photo p. 161).
I remember there were ANR-BRU flights with BN2A Islander also of Publi-Air, in the years '70, I think.
ANR-BRU has also been flown by DAT DC3, of course !

[Prevangor]

There are tons of old Sabena timetables on the web. Go to http://timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/ and scroll down to the directory sn27. If you don't like the FTP directory, you can also go to the HTML (=real internet) version http://timetableimages.com - but browsing there is less efficient since some images have real timetables behind them and others don't.

[OO-JFP]

Hi,

I flew on 5/8/1973 with OO-JFP (Twin Otter) from Antwerp to Brussels.
Ticket price 200 BEF (~5€), 3 passengers on board.

OO-JFP

[YYZ727]

In the fifties SN also exploited a helicopter network which included international flights from regional airports or heliports. destinations were a.o.Lille, Maastricht, Rotterdam from Antwerp, Liège, ...
In Liège SN flew to/from a Héliport situated on the borders of the Meuse river. In Brussels, the Groendreef/Allée verte Heliport had at one time about thirty daily helicopter flights...
Helicopters used were a.o. Sikorsky S-55 & S-58's.

[Acid-drop]

Sabena used indeed the heliport in the center of Liège :
http://maps.google.be/maps?hl=fr&ie=UTF ... 43774&z=15


Source : the beautiful site of Claude Warzee : http://users.belgacom.net/claude.warzee ... /index.htm

Which is now next to a fancy restaurant. Almost not used anymore, only rare cases.

nice link about the story in 1953
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/ ... 01233.html

[sn26567]

I remember once being in LHR where I saw 4 SN planes next to each other with destinations BRU, ANR, LGG and CRL. In a later period SN flew the B737 between ANR and LHR. The plane was based in ANR and returned to BRU every Friday night, going back to ANR on Monday morning.

[jan_olieslagers]

In a later period SN flew the B737 between ANR and LHR. The plane was based in ANR and returned to BRU every Friday night, going back to ANR on Monday morning.

I know a guy who did the load sheets for those flights - some creativity was required, apparently, given the short runway in Antwerp.

[jan_olieslagers]

In the 1930's, London - Zoute!