2018 Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI) latest news

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Indigo ? Norwegian ?

Cxb

[TLspotting]

What about the runway extension and new terminal on the south side of the airport, as Air Belgium is stopping flights to Hong-Kong ?

You talked too quickly. AB will start again to fly as from end March / April... To HK

[jan_olieslagers]

"Will" ?? or "Announced" .. ??

[ZavCity]

This is wishfull thinking..They lost millons of USD on their scheduled service fromCRL..ACMI is the only possibility for survival...Will never happen that they will restart !!
paul

[TLspotting]

"Will" ?? or "Announced" .. ??

AIRBELGIUM.com :

[jan_olieslagers]

Thanks for confirming: they announced.

[Atlantis]

"Will" ?? or "Announced" .. ??

AIRBELGIUM.com : Capture454.JPG

If you check carefully then you can see that it is during the next IATA Winter season, till 31th March.
As we know that their communication and PR is in very low performance, you can be sure that the flights to HK and other Chinese city will never restart again.

It was clear from the beginning. Runway too short, no full plance for pax and cargo, too much restrictions, it was doomed

[JustPlanes]

What a shame!
Move to BRU and start operating flights to the USA....
Do a nonstop to Denver and make a deal with Frontier to offer a connection to 20 cities West of Denver such as SEA, LAX, SFO, LAS, SAN etc...
And that was my 2 cents

[Passenger]

And now it's official: Air Algérie adds Algiers – Brussels Charleroi service from 28 October 2018; a Boeing 737-600 operates twice weekly.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air- ... xt-winter/

Source: Airline Route

Startup CRL apparently is postponed till mid December 2018.

[TLspotting]

And now it's official: Air Algérie adds Algiers – Brussels Charleroi service from 28 October 2018; a Boeing 737-600 operates twice weekly.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air- ... xt-winter/

Source: Airline Route

Startup CRL apparently is postponed till mid December 2018.

Until 18 December 2018 :
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... -dec-2018/

[sn26567]

At a press conference this morning to announce the expansion of the terminal 1 building (see: https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brus ... kers-pics/), the Chairman of the Board of BSCA Laurent Lévêque announced that the search for a successor to CEO Jean-Jacques Cloquet would start Thursday next week with the designation of a headhunter. The aim is to have a new CEO in early January.

[Passenger]

At a press conference this morning to announce the expansion of the terminal 1 building (see: https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brus ... kers-pics/), the Chairman of the Board of BSCA Laurent Lévêque announced that the search for a successor to CEO Jean-Jacques Cloquet would start Thursday next week with the designation of a headhunter. The aim is to have a new CEO in early January.

Not everybody thinks that CRL will have a new captain on the ship by 7th January 2019:
http://pagtour.info/bsca-casse-sa-tirelire/

[Acid-drop]

a head hunter for a political job ? Who is naive enough to beleive that ?

[sn26567]

a head hunter for a political job ? Who is naive enough to beleive that ?

The Chairman of the Board is a politician, but the CEO must have some experience in aviation, or at least in management, as was the case with Jean-Jacques Cloquet.

[Acid-drop]

actually it wasn't.
He learned on the field (and there is nothing wrong with that of course)
"C'est à partir de 2007, que J-J Cloquet entre à l'aéroport de Charleroi comme indépendant avec pour but de développer le département des revenus non liés à l’aviation (restauration, parkings, …). Bourreau de travail, il gravit les échelons, devenant membre du personnel à part entière en 2008, puis Directeur commercial non aviation (2009). En 2010, il occupe le poste de Directeur GRH et finalement devient l'administrateur délégué de l'entreprise à la fin 2012. "

But let's see if they can find a political person with aviation knowledge.

[luchtzak]

Brussels South Charleroi Airport and Telenet form a strategic partnership to create airport 3.0

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brus ... rport-3-0/

[Boeing767copilot]

FR will reintroduce services from Glasgow to Warsaw on 1 April 2019, as well as Alicante, Brussels Charleroi and Malaga on 2 April. These services were cut earlier this year.

[sn26567]

FR will reintroduce services from Glasgow to Warsaw on 1 April 2019, as well as Alicante, Brussels Charleroi and Malaga on 2 April. These services were cut earlier this year.

As announced here yesterday https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryan ... ga-warsaw/