2010 Liège Airport (LGG) latest news

[flightlover]

from the article:

'De rechter was daarnaast wel van mening dat er sprake is van "duidelijke overtredingen van Belgische of internationale regels" zoals het ontbreken van een studie over de impact van de luchthaven.'

translation:

'The judge's opinion is there are clear violations of belgian or international rules, like a missing impact study of the airport.'

As to say, if non happens soon, they will have to shut down since not all legal requirements are met. As tried with Antwerp airport a few years ago.

they better start doing their homework.

[afterburner]

A lot of pics can be found here :
http://www.mst-aviation.nl/portal/modul ... forum&f=73

... and here : http://flyfan.hostonet.org/viewtopic.php?t=39&start=0

[Propwash]

Acid-drop & Afterburner

Thanks for the URLs (I love the pica's) :thumbup:

they better start doing their homework.

I think so too.

It will 'probably' be continued up to High Court :thumbdown:

[Terwilliger]

Most of the pilots and the entire maintenance crew has been sacked. Only for them to lease in a couple of other A300's (-600) within a month after their last A300 (TZB) left LGG on 23-12-2009.

The first Boeing 767, operated by TNT Airways, is due to arrive in May.

I am a bit confused here. TNT sacked people at a time when they surely must have known that new aircraft were coming? I wonder what it is doing to moral when the clear signal coming from such dispositions is that employees are considered as consumables, and that TNT is not a career airline.

[Acid-drop]

I think it's a matter of field of knowledge.
When you are working on A300, you probably can't work on B767 ...
Different people I guess.

[Nevihta]

I think it's a matter of field of knowledge.
When you are working on A300, you probably can't work on B767 ...
Different people I guess.

Of course you can, you just need a type rating.
Normally, when a company changes its tools, it doesn't fire employees to hire new ones, it is supposed to train employees.
Quite a rude behavior if true as reported.

[Acid-drop]

Recently, LGG is welcoming russian Il-96-400T, a rare beast since only a very few were build.
Modern airplane, 92 tonnes. Quite interesting stuff.

http://www.mst-aviation.nl/portal/modul ... ic&t=17386
http://www.mst-aviation.nl/portal/modul ... ic&t=17390

[cnc]

lovely bird! thx for the links

[an-148]

(french speaking, but already the pictures are worth a view)
serie of 4 x 5' clips realized for the 20th anniversary of the civilian use of the airport:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TELETOURISME

(Guy Lemaire is specialized in tourism documentary films)

[Acid-drop]

Some charters with news companies those days ...
MASkargo, Eurex cargo, Star Airlines Macedonia, MidEx cargo.
All using 742F

Let's hope it's not just a one time visit ...

[Acid-drop]

20th birthday, a few pics :
http://flyfan.hostonet.org/viewtopic.php?t=2658

[Desert Rat]

Any tonnage for April?

to see the impact of the Ashes cloud on the traffic.

[Acid-drop]

it's a bit too early, around the 20th
We can expect 20% drop (from previous months, not from 2009), or maybe even more since april isn't a busy month

[Boeing767copilot]

(moderator note : replaced the french text by an english article)

TNT launches Moscow-Liege service
http://www.freightnet.com/release/4714.htm

[Desert Rat]

(moderator note : replaced the french text by an english article)

TNT launches Moscow-Liege service
http://www.freightnet.com/release/4714.htm

I think this is very important that TNT develops lucrative "niche" market like these...

Well done.

[an-148]

I also notice a very important move (in my eyes ) : the fact that TNT jumped with both feet in the new established (established by the SAB in coordination with GRE - local developpement agency) biologistic segment : when you read the article, the importance of the new route is heavily sustained by that kind of goods
the comments about the previously opened routes of TNT to Shanghai and Singapore, already mentionned that biologistics would be part of the load, but now they even speak more about that part of the freight

[Acid-drop]

A lot of great pics of LGG from a pro photographer

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http://www.photo-daylight.com/stock.php?folder=stock/05_%E9conomie%20|%20soci%E9t%E9[%A7economy%20|%20society/51_Liege%20Airport%20-%20selection

(copy paste the full URL, the forum has a bug with the URL code)

you gotta browse the website a bit to find many other interesting stuff

[Boeing767copilot]

Liege Airport is offering a new flight to Morocco during the summer. Each Saturday from the 26th of June to the 4th of September, Jetairfly will fly from Liege to Tetouan.

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JAN 2010 : 51.685 tonnes - (JAN 2009 : 33.692) - (JAN 2008 : 46.829)
FEB 2010 : 55.561 tonnes - (FEB 2009 : 32.884) - (FEB 2008 : 45.949)
MAR 2010 : 62.507 tonnes - (MAR 2009 : 38.153) - (MAR 2008 : 50.536)

April 2010 = volcanic cloud
APR 2010 : 45.907 tonnes - (APR 2009 : 37.359) - (APR 2008 : 47.637)

YTD : 215.844 tonnes

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JAN 2010 : 51.685 tonnes - (JAN 2009 : 33.692) - (JAN 2008 : 46.829)
FEB 2010 : 55.561 tonnes - (FEB 2009 : 32.884) - (FEB 2008 : 45.949)
MAR 2010 : 62.507 tonnes - (MAR 2009 : 38.153) - (MAR 2008 : 50.536)
APR 2010 : 45.907 tonnes - (APR 2009 : 37.359) - (APR 2008 : 47.637)

MAY 2010 : 54.494 tonnes - (MAY 2009 : 35.077) - (MAY 2008 : 41.850)

YTD : 270.339 tonnes