Royal Jordanian leaving Brussels airport ????

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Royal Jordanian leaving Brussels airport ????

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Hi,

I've heard some rumours that Royal Jordanian will
discontinue their service to Brussels in the near future!
Does anyone know something more about this ????
( If it's true, I certainly will miss them!!!) :cry:
Thanks


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I don't think that RJ will supend its flights to BRU. From what I heared it could be that the only remaining flight to BRU will be the one coming via Amsterdam. So I guess they'll reduce the number of flights.
Anyway, it's still sad :cry:

I'm not sure about that information, can someone confirm :?:

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Chris
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Post by Zorba »

I don't know a thing about it, but it's allways nice to see that big plane approaching!

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Rutger :waving:

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Post by sn26567 »

Isn't it a logical decision by wise RJ management? After all, traffic to Jordan is mainly touristic, and the area is not so safe since a couple of months, if not years.

If there is a surprise, it is that the decision was not made earlier.
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Post by 777 »

Using RJ for Royal Jordanian is very confusing (for the so many with SNBA) with RJ for Regional Jet.

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Post by Sabena_690 »

And it is official now...

RJ is leaving BRU :cry:

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Post by 744rules »

If this tendancy continues, BRU soon will have the most beautiful REGIONAL airport in the world with only erj, bae, 737 and a320 variants. Not bad for the capital of Europe.

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744rules wrote:If this tendancy continues, BRU soon will have the most beautiful REGIONAL airport in the world with only erj, bae, 737 and a320 variants. :evil:
But with a lot of large freighter planes :twisted:
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Parochial

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sn26567 wrote:
744rules wrote:If this tendancy continues, BRU soon will have the most beautiful REGIONAL airport in the world with only erj, bae, 737 and a320 variants. :evil:
But with a lot of large freighter planes :twisted:
Some 20 years ago, I was then Rep LUX, a minister qualified BN "Bruxelles National" as "parochial airport"...
In the meantime, I was asked to make a report on Cargolux, as at that time there was a possibility for SN to buy shares into that cargo-airline.
My direct boss replied to that report: "The vocation of Sabena is not to be a cargo-company"
More then ten years before that same person, Mr A.A - not Mr Adolphe Arnold, but the other one, had also a luminous answer.
The case was: Mr Wim Desmet was in the early 7ties a non-IATA travel agent in Hasselt. Representing a big german touristik agentur, he came to me with the request to issue tkts for that market. As airline, in these years, we were not able to issue these IT and GIT tkts. But the solution was that Transair, a Sabena subsidiary company, could do the job. So I brought the question to DG-Transair. That man saw immediately the opportunity. But he had to submit the matter to a panel, under Rep. BL (Belg+Lux) authoririty, as he would take commercial conclusions in his market. So he, Rep. BL Mr A.A., decided in French: "Laissez donc mourrir NN de sa belle mort..."
As we all know Mr Wim Desmet is now heading, if not the biggest, one of the most important touristik businesses in Belgium.
This to say Sabena and BN had great decison makers...

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Post by suetens »

It is official, RJ is stopping his BRU operation. All employees received their C4 doc, they will terminate end of october.On the other side, EK is more and more picking up the pax and cargo.
They add two weekly cargo B747 to FRA in addition to their existing weekly flight from LGG.
Qatar Airways will very soon start operate Airbus cargo to and from Europe. Mahan Air Cargo (Iran) also plans to start operation from BRU. On year basis, we find out that EK had an increase of about 30% in cargo.....
It seems that most of the good managers and decision persons are all located in the Middle or Far East..
I am 30 years in the aircargo and if we look back, in the 70's, TMA was also the first to operate wound the world cargo B707 and even two B747.

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744rules wrote:If this tendancy continues, BRU soon will have the most beautiful REGIONAL airport in the world with only erj, bae, 737 and a320 variants. Not bad for the capital of Europe.

:evil:
Mmm 747r, untill mid eighties BRU was the most ugly regional airport in the world, @ least it turned out beautiful :lol:

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Post by BBKing »

Amsterdam-Schiphol is one of the main airports in this world. Everybody want to fly to this airport. Every new start-up airline immediately starts flying from and to Schiphol ...

What is the difference between AMS and BRU?? Both are the capitals of small European countries, but BRU is the capital of Europe, at least pretend to be ...

It certainly has to do something with marketing.

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Post by Avro »

Qatar Airways will very soon start operate Airbus cargo to and from Europe.
Is there a chance they could come to BRU :?:
Mahan Air Cargo (Iran) also plans to start operation from BRU.
What aircraft do they operate, because I wasn't able to find pictures of their cargo planes. :cry:

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Royal Jordanian Airlines what is happening?

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Royal Jordanian Airlines: "After 11 September 2001, things have been very difficult for airlines of our ilk? Ex-state-owned airlines trying to move into the private sector. We don't think there are any more strategic partners available? At least for the coming few years", Samer Majali, President.

Boeing Chairman Phil Condit cited recent improvements in global traffic data as cause for some optimism.
Boeing is hopeful that strength in Asia might bolster its order book. And there are clear signs of strength, with reports of recently expanded services by Royal Jordanian Airlines, Skynet Asia and EVA Air.

Several carriers plan new services later this year, including AirAsia and SriLankan Airlines, while Japan Airlines System and Malaysia Airlines report recent increases in forward bookings.

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Royal Jordanian in pact with Delta

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Royal Jordanian and Delta Airlines have agreed to develop their commercial ties and to identify potential areas of co-operation.
Royal Jordanian agreed to evaluate the possibility of appointing the US airline as the technical handling agent for its flights at New York's Kennedy Airport.
The two airlines also expressed a keen interest in enhancing the interline co-operation that already exists between both airlines.
Royal Jordanian and Delta Airlines discussed other issues of mutual interest including frequent flyer programmes, facilitating passengers travelling to or from Royal Jordanian stations in the US, and the code-share mail agreement to Baghdad that was already concluded between both airlines.

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