Alitalia’s services which were originally scheduled between Rome and the Belgian capital, will operate to and from Liege (a Belgian town south-east of Brussels) up to 5 April included.
The Liege airport represents the best temporary solution possible. However, the airport has a limited capacity and it proved to be congested due to the extraordinary flight operations set up by airlines that, like Alitalia, usually don’t fly to and from Liege. As a consequence of this, Alitalia cannot ensure the same ground service offered at Zaventem airport. Furthermore, direct services between Milan and Belgium remain canceled and Alitalia has immediately set up re-routing procedures for its passengers booked on flights to/from Milan which have been rebooked on services to/from Rome. This plan remains effective until further update.
Source : https://www.alitalia.com/en_it/fly-alit ... elles.html
Using now A321
I wonder now if LGG could welcome more pax if using bigger planes and less flights. Seems to be the trend.
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Sonho1985 wrote:Went to the TAP-desk here at Pinto Martins airport in Fortaleza, as the information on their site is rather unexisting about the BRU-situation. Their Brazil-callcenter is very busy and the terminal is only 10 minutes away so...
The lady was't really helpful. "In the system the flight LIS-BRU for Sunday april 2 still exists and is even for sale so you will find out on the day of your journey."
Now let us be realistic. The chance that TP will operate at BRU this weekend is about what... 5 to 10%?
If I would end up in OST or maybe LGG, okay. But if I will be put on a plane to ORY or AMS I need to know it in advance (arrange someone for pick-up or maybe book a Thalys ticket).
Is dencend communication that hard?
Tomorrow morning I am gonna try the Brussels call center. It will cost me, but need to know...
I think the chances are very big you'll end up in OST. Not too sure about transportation from the airport, there are a lot of busses coming and going, but I think most if not all are from JAF. If there's no transportation provided by the airline, there's still a public transport bus to the Ostend train station or you can take a cab. Apparently the airline should compensate 'reasonable' travel expenses.
Tried the Belgian call center today.
Flights between LIS and BRU are still on schedule for this Sunday, the operator said.
The alternative (which is likely going to happen IMO) is OST. I have to call back on Friday for updated information.
They operate just 1 flight a day to/from OST, however I can't track any on FR24. It leaves around 1:15PM in LIS (so 7 hours of transit time instead of 3... yihaa) and arrives around 5PM.
I am curious about what aircraft, because load factors on the flights between BRU and LIS I take are always minimum 90%. This is a very busy route, and also SN is not flying it as far as I know at the moment.
Alitalia’s services which were originally scheduled between Rome and the Belgian capital, will operate to and from Liege (a Belgian town south-east of Brussels) up to 5 April included.
The Liege airport represents the best temporary solution possible. However, the airport has a limited capacity and it proved to be congested due to the extraordinary flight operations set up by airlines that, like Alitalia, usually don’t fly to and from Liege. As a consequence of this, Alitalia cannot ensure the same ground service offered at Zaventem airport. Furthermore, direct services between Milan and Belgium remain canceled and Alitalia has immediately set up re-routing procedures for its passengers booked on flights to/from Milan which have been rebooked on services to/from Rome. This plan remains effective until further update.
Source : https://www.alitalia.com/en_it/fly-alit ... elles.html
Using now A321
I wonder now if LGG could welcome more pax if using bigger planes and less flights. Seems to be the trend.
IMO AZ can remain operating maybe 1 daily flight between LGG and Italy in the future, even after reopening BRU. I don't understand why that never happened before. The region (Liege and nearby Limburg) has a huge population of people from Italian origine.
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The regional airports want to know where they stand, words of CEO of Antwerp/Ostend Brughes airports.
Its difficult but its somewhat logical.
He asks for a meeting with all the airports so things can be planned ahead.
Airlines can't keep on cancelling their flights.
If you need to be somewhere you are nothing with a refund.
Look at Air Arabia and Royal Air Maroc. The first is probably glad to take on RAM customers...
Sonho1985 wrote:
Tried the Belgian call center today.
Flights between LIS and BRU are still on schedule for this Sunday, the operator said.
The alternative (which is likely going to happen IMO) is OST. I have to call back on Friday for updated information.
They operate just 1 flight a day to/from OST, however I can't track any on FR24. It leaves around 1:15PM in LIS (so 7 hours of transit time instead of 3... yihaa) and arrives around 5PM.
I am curious about what aircraft, because load factors on the flights between BRU and LIS I take are always minimum 90%. This is a very busy route, and also SN is not flying it as far as I know at the moment.
My post got lost somewhere...
Highly likely you will arrive at OST.
TAP operates a A320.
Loadfactor from 50 to 95% depending day to day.
tolipanebas wrote:A small Easter gift for spotters in LGG:
Since YYZ is currently not operating, as from tomorrow an A330 will be deployed on our key medium haul routes to cope with very high volume and the lower than normal frequencies on those routes: tomorrow an A330 will be used on MAD.
Nice, but was it really worth the trouble? It did 1 return flight; only 4 hours in the air. I hope the l/f was good.
The regional airports want to know where they stand, words of CEO of Antwerp/Ostend Brughes airports.
Its difficult but its somewhat logical.
He asks for a meeting with all the airports so things can be planned ahead.
Airlines can't keep on cancelling their flights.
If you need to be somewhere you are nothing with a refund.
Look at Air Arabia and Royal Air Maroc. The first is probably glad to take on RAM customers...
Also newsreel from local television on current situation at Ostend airport.(30/3)
Basically the same info as on VRT.
OO-SFM and OO-SSG flew into BRU with SN9* callsigns, so those are just positioning flights, we had quite a lot of them since the 22, so nothing out of the ordinary.. yet!
OO-SSB Airbus A319-111 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSC Airbus A319-112 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSF Airbus A319-111 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSG Airbus A319-112 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSN Airbus A319-112 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSQ Airbus A319-112 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSR Airbus A319-112 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSU Airbus A319-111 Brussels Airlines
OO-SSV Airbus A319-111 Brussels Airlines
OO-SND Airbus A320-214 Brussels Airlines
OO-SNG Airbus A320-214 Brussels Airlines
OO-SFU Airbus A330-223 Brussels Airlines
OO-SFM Airbus A330-301 Brussels Airlines
OO-SFW Airbus A330-322 Brussels Airlines
CS-TQZ Airbus A340-313 Hi Fly
JAF
OO-JDL Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Jetairfly
TCB
OO-TCT Airbus A320-212 Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
Brussels Airlines schedules for 1-2 April (Courtesy Airline Route)
brussels airlines 01/02APR16 Long-Haul Operations
brussels airlines’ latest schedule revision for long-haul service has extended to 02APR16, where Africa operation continues to be served from Frankfurt, New York served from Zurich. Planned schedule as follow.
Zurich – New York JFK 01APR16/02APR16
SN1401 ZRH1100 – 1420JFK 333
SN1402 JFK1715 – 0755+1ZRH 333
brussels airlines 01/02APR16 European Operations
brussels airlines in the last 24 hours has revised its operational schedule for Europe and North Africa operations for 01APR16 and 02APR16, which includes the following.
