5th A330 for Brussels Airlines

[Air Key West]

To Darjeeling : I agree that the economic and political situation in the Ivory Coast is not very good, but don't forget the ABJ flights are also serving a second destination ; they are not ABJ flights only. So, all in all, the six weekly operations should be successful.

[airbuske]

There is a press conference going on at the moment for the new destinations.
Brussels Airlines wil hire 110 new people !!! And 110 indirect jobs!

[brusselsairlinesfan]

There is a press conference going on at the moment for the new destinations.
Brussels Airlines wil hire 110 new people !!! And 110 indirect jobs!

THIS IS TRULY AMAZING!!! Is it due to KORONGO or just for BRUSSELS AIRLINES own ops?!

[jan_olieslagers]

And 110 indirect jobs!

Beats me how they count those.

Even so it is good news indeed, think I'll write them a nice letter.

[airbuske]

There is a press conference going on at the moment for the new destinations.
Brussels Airlines wil hire 110 new people !!! And 110 indirect jobs!

THIS IS TRULY AMAZING!!! Is it due to KORONGO or just for BRUSSELS AIRLINES own ops?!

I don't know I just read it on HLN.be

Sorry only in dutch: Brussels Airlines gaat 110 mensen aanwerven

[airbuske]

Ok the 110 new jobs :

12 pilots
50 cabin crew members
39 jobs in Africa ( sales and operations)
9 jobs here at operations Brussels

110 indirect jobs in outstations ( handling etc)

Korongo:

Korongo will start in 2010.
First flights will be Lumumbashi-Kinshasa.
Brussels Airlines will work together with Forrest Group of George Forrest and they will invest 5 million each.

[sn26567]

Sorry only in dutch: Brussels Airlines gaat 110 mensen aanwerven

Also in French: http://www.rtbf.be/info/economie/emploi ... nes-190036

I'm afraid that for English we'll have to wait some more time.

[JJBRUS]

Finally Cotonou got opened up and real competion can start
This is a very good move from SN which i personally have requested several times
It will mean a lot less stress for many of my couontrymen and for the whole subregion
Congratulations SN Brussels.
and if you need office space in Cotonou I may have the right spot .

[brusselsairlinesfan]

I am very very happy to see this positive move of my favorite airline (brussels airlines) of my preferred foreign country (Belgium)!!!

Vincent, Paris

[RoMax]

Nice to see that Brussels Airlines will operate 18 AFI destinations, creating 110 direct jobs. These jobs are really welcome in these times, especially for the pilots. And be sure that these four new destinations will hurt AF/KLM a lot. (Accra is no AF destination but it is a KLM destination.)

BTW do you know the investement of SN in for al this? 10 milion Euro's for the new destinations only And another 5 million for Korongo, the other 5 million needed for Korongo will be paid by the Forrest Group. So a total investement of 20 million in AFI, so it's clear that SN has a lot of confidence that this will succeed. AF has stollen a lot of passengers after the bankruptcy of Sabena, but now it's the other way round. SN has stollen pax of AF and they will do it again with these new routes.

[sdbelgium]

http://www.flightlevel.be/1214/2010-jaa ... s-airlines

Main points:

• BRU-VIE schedule will be adjusted after codeshare
• No codeshare in the pipeline with SAS and TK
• 5th A330 will indeed come from Malaysia
• 5th A319 in April and 6th in June

[diminbru]

http://www.flightlevel.be/1214/2010-jaa ... s-airlines
[*]5th A319 in April and 6th in June[/list]

I wonder if the 6th A319 will be added to the fleet or if it will replace a B737 (VBR)???
Maybe this 6th A319 will be F-OHJY (former OO-SSE)...

[sdbelgium]

The fifth is a replacement aircraft, the sixth should be an extra airplane.

[brusselsairlinesfan]

A 6th A319 to join the SN fleet? Time for a new topic

[Conti764]

I find it a strange move no to paint the new A330 in Star Alliance colors. SN has alot of brand awareness in Africa, esp. as the succesor of Sabena, and Star Alliance lacks a good brand name in the markets SN operates into. So it would be a good idea to paint the next A330 in Star Alliance colors and rotate trough all of SN's African destinations...

[RoMax]

I find it a strange move no to paint the new A330 in Star Alliance colors. SN has alot of brand awareness in Africa, esp. as the succesor of Sabena, and Star Alliance lacks a good brand name in the markets SN operates into. So it would be a good idea to paint the next A330 in Star Alliance colors and rotate trough all of SN's African destinations...

They have still 3 of their A333's in hybrid colors, and only one in full SN colors. Maybe they want more planes in their new full colors before a Star Alliance logo jet. Maybe they wait until one of the A333's in hybrid colors will go in to big maintenance to paint him than in Star colors. In that case they will have two full SN color A333's, one Star logo A333 and only two A333's still in the hybrid colors.
It's just a tought.

[Atlantis]

creating 110 direct jobs. These jobs are really welcome in these times, especially for the pilots.

Why only for pilots?? Everyone one the airport is important: cabincrew, groundpersonnel, etc. They deserve a lot of encouragement.

[RoMax]

creating 110 direct jobs. These jobs are really welcome in these times, especially for the pilots.

Why only for pilots?? Everyone one the airport is important: cabincrew, groundpersonnel, etc. They deserve a lot of encouragement.

Yes I know but the pilots have a real bad time for the moment (off course al the other people also). There ar to much pilots for the moment, I think the amount of workless pilots is bigger than a lot other kind of jobs. Altough I know it is a difficult time for everyone, but my statement was that this is an important thing for the job market. Everyone expect more jobs will be gone this year, so more than 200 jobs (direct and indirect) are really welcome.

[Air Key West]

All the info in English from the horse's mouth :
http://web.brusselsairlines.com/press/r ... ess_EN.pdf

[tolipanebas]

Looking at the new schedule and the frequencies of the 4 additional destinations, it looks like SN is going to keep an A330 available in BRU one day per week.

Purely theoretically, imagine the 5th A330 is going to serve exclusively all the newly announced routes (I know it is going to be rotated through the network, but come on, just for reasoning purposes, assume this to be the case), then it is going to operate 4 times on Accra-Lome or Accra-Cotonou (theoretical pairings indeed, but again, juft for reasoning), and 2 times per week on Ouagadougou-Abidjan, meaning it is going to be available one day per week, probably for maintenance.

Alternatively, it would leave room to add an additional frequency to 2 existing destinations, or add something entirely new even (albeit once weekly might be quite low on frequency).

Personally, as a sidenote, I think it is odd there is no service added to Bamako, which used to be paired with Ouagadougou by Sabena, and served 3 times weekly.