Korongo Airlines: THE END

[Bralo20]

Any pictures yet?

[sdbelgium]

See last reply on previous page.

[Bralo20]

Hmm...

It looks better then the SN livery... But I notice that the registration of the plane is painted, so will the planes be flying with a Belgian registration in the DRC rather then a DRC registration?

There is a Brussels Airlines and a IATA sticker on the nose of the plane...

[dsa330]

aircraft in 117 now for maintenance.

[spagiola]

Someone must have really like Tolepinebas' avatar! They copied it for the official Korongo color scheme!

[Polaris]

Someone must have really like Tolepinebas' avatar! They copied it for the official Korongo color scheme!

Hahaha, good one!

[flightlover]

That's some good cash management... I would let it tour accross Europe as it is on my regional network to all the bug airports of my netork to let the business men get to know it.

and what do you think how many businessmen will understand that and make the link to a new airline about to start operations somewhere in central africa with one or two planes managed by Brussels Airlines?? I guess most people would rather complain about this and say: look, now they even start wet leasing cheap african aircraft in order to save some more money, people might even be afraid about security

More as you may think. It all depends on communication. Give them a nice glossy brochure while boarding or even beter entering the lounge. And it even may be the best advertisement there is.

[Shanti]

Really beautiful Korongo Airlines colours!

[Megaman]

I agree, it's all about communication. If they are scared to board in Europe, they will be scared to board in Africa. You need to reassure them and I think that you should take the opportunity and fly this plane around Europe. Free publicity. And if no one knows what Korongo is, you can always display a short message on the plane itself.

Korongo by Brussels Airline, soon flying for you accross Africa

[spagiola]

The pic posted above of OO-MJE with Korongo c/s shows the aircraft's own stairs deployed at 1L. I do not recall Brussels (SN/DAT, etc) 146s and Avro RJs having self-contained stairs installed. Is this a new addition specifically for Korongo operations? It would make sense, given some of the airports the airline is likely to operate to.

[LeFreak]

all our Avro RJ's have airstairs installed

[dsa330]

all our Avro RJ's have airstairs installed

Correct. only the boeing have their airstairs removed for weight savings.
LTM had it reinstalled for korongo but not operative yet.

[Air Ella]

I found a picture on airliners.net. For the not facebook fans.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Korongo- ... 6ceb132fa9

grtz

[Shanti]

Do we get a chance to fly with Korongo Airlines in Europe next week?

[Outsync]

I actually quite like this livery!

[diminbru]

I actually quite like this livery!

me too...very stylish

[tolipanebas]

Someone must have really like Tolipanebas' avatar! They copied it for the official Korongo color scheme!

I like some credit when it's due, but this really is too much....

I am happy to see most people really like the livery: SN should really consider changing its current mismatch livery to something similar to this.

We had a discussion about it a few months ago, with some very cool artistic renderings of a new SN livery based on the ZC one and it looked great!

[ihd-fc]

OOMJE permformed the flight to HAM and back yesterday (SN2627/SN2628), smooth flight operation.

[tolipanebas]

Indeed, contrary to the planning, MJE was used on HAM, rather than MRS and PRG like scheduled.

As i've said, it will be very hard for enthousiasts willing to fly on her to book a ticket in advance as MJE is used on an ad hoc basis, given it is a redundant plane to the SN fleet, with very few crews qualified to fly on it commercially and thus its flight schedule is made up last minute, in between maintenance and ground training....

[Shanti]

it's so sad we can not fly once with the korongo airlines aircraft before it will leave to Africa,
maybe someone of the SN managers read this and can still arrange a special flight for aviation lovers!
i am sure we can find 70-90 passengers for this flight.