SNBA looking into China

asianboy · Post by **asianboy** » 07 Apr 2005, 09:05

pilatus wrote:What I have heard is that the 4the A330 will be used to fly to the middle east, not for Afrika.

middle east 8O what about the code share with etihad?where will snba fly in the middle east? 8O

OrientThai · Post by **OrientThai** » 07 Apr 2005, 13:42

The Middle-East market out of BRU is too weak. Royal Jordanian pulled out of BRU one and half year ago, and Syrian will stop serving BRU this month.
SNBA only flies to Tel-Aviv and even if they decide to increase their presence (which is very unlikely) in the region it will be with an A319s and certainly not with an A330s.

what about the code share with etihad?

A code-share with Etihad will only be on the BRU-Toronto sector.
SNBA should indeed increase it's African presence with the 4th A330s.

asianboy · Post by **asianboy** » 07 Apr 2005, 13:48

OrientThai wrote:The Middle-East market out of BRU is too weak. Royal Jordanian pulled out of BRU one and half year ago, and Syrian will stop serving BRU this month.
SNBA only flies to Tel-Aviv and even if they decide to increase their presence (which is very unlikely) in the region it will be with an A319s and certainly not with an A330s.
what about the code share with etihad?
A code-share with Etihad will only be on the BRU-Toronto sector.
SNBA should indeed increase it's African presence with the 4th A330s.

thanks for the info orient thai

bad luck for syrian

a direct link between brussels and bangkok would be great... boring to change aircraft to go home

OrientThai · Post by **OrientThai** » 07 Apr 2005, 13:50

a direct link between brussels and bangkok would be great... boring to change aircraft to go home

I couldn't agree more.

asianboy · Post by **asianboy** » 07 Apr 2005, 13:52

OrientThai wrote:
a direct link between brussels and bangkok would be great... boring to change aircraft to go home
I couldn't agree more.

china airlines would be great

my favourite airlines to go home via ams

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 07 Apr 2005, 20:21

OrientThai wrote:A code-share with Etihad will only be on the BRU-Toronto sector.

Why not also on BRU-Abu Dhabi?

OrientThai · Post by **OrientThai** » 09 Apr 2005, 18:12

Humberside wrote:Why not also on BRU-Abu Dhabi?

The Canadian market is far more important out of BRU than the Abu-Dhabi market.
Moreover if SNBA would code-share with Etihad to AUH it would be for good connections to South-East Asia (like a BRU-AUH-HKG operated by Etihad and code-shared with SNBA). But unlike EK, Etihad doesn't offer enough connections to this region; EY only flies to BKK (and the main Asian target of SNBA for now is China).

jal · Post by **jal** » 09 Apr 2005, 20:08

Why are SN using such old A333

Sabena have made many mistakes in the past, like ordering too many planes and ordering the last B747-300(new) ever built OO-SGD instead of ordering a new 747-429

I hope SN will have learned from these mistakes.

liebensd · Post by **liebensd** » 09 Apr 2005, 20:15

Why are SN using such old A333 icon_question.gif

They will probably have the best leasing price.

Greetz,

Dave

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 09 Apr 2005, 22:29

OrientThai wrote:
Humberside wrote:Why not also on BRU-Abu Dhabi?
The Canadian market is far more important out of BRU than the Abu-Dhabi market.
Moreover if SNBA would code-share with Etihad to AUH it would be for good connections to South-East Asia (like a BRU-AUH-HKG operated by Etihad and code-shared with SNBA). But unlike EK, Etihad doesn't offer enough connections to this region; EY only flies to BKK (and the main Asian target of SNBA for now is China).

So would a SNBA codeshare to Abu Dhabi be likely in the future when Ethiad improve connections?

Thanks for your help

OrientThai · Post by **OrientThai** » 10 Apr 2005, 14:28

Humberside wrote:So would a SNBA codeshare to Abu Dhabi be likely in the future when Etihad improve connections?

If SNBA reaches the code-share agreement with Etihad on the BRU-YYZ sector, if their co-operation succeed and yes if EY offers more connections (which will happen in the next years when they will get more aircrafts because now they are short of aircrafts to launch new routes) then we might see this new code-share.

press · Post by **press** » 11 Apr 2005, 12:27

bru-can & bru-pvg are no options, it is bru-pek or nothing.
however, there is still no sign of hainan airlines on the bru slot allocation list.

source: biac/bsc

this doesn't look good ...

vflies · Post by **vflies** » 15 Apr 2005, 13:33

DannyVDB wrote: A second aircraft in Africa would only be useful if they start flying to South-Africa ...

I believe I saw both Cape Town and Jo'burg on the maps of possible new destinations to be served out of BRU (Le Soir, a few weeks ago).
And, as often discussed on these forums, we know there is a large Belgian community in SA and lots of people in Belgium wishing for a reliable direct airlink.
So hopefully that's still a possibility...

But would it be flown by SNba (might be difficult for their 333's), SAA or Nationwide? Can't think of anyone else operating a BRU-CPT or BRU-JNB non-stop... Unless it is a charter (TUI?) but I doubt they would be willing to repeat the Sobelair fiasco.

Might well just be wishful thinking though...

VFlies

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 15 Apr 2005, 20:31

Don't dream too much Vflies

if SN or any other airline has plans to open a route between BRU and South Africa, then it will certainly not be in the near future..... And as far as I know the plans you are talking about have been canceled, but I can be wrong as well.

Chris

vflies · Post by **vflies** » 17 Apr 2005, 15:26

LOL Chris, that's the main problem: users of BRU can only regret the past or dream of some better future!
And spend (way too much) time on Thalys to CDG and feeder services to LHR and AMS to catch our intercontinental flights... *sigh*

I didn't read that those plans had been shelved (again!) but I'm not too surprised...
So what is left for this year? Toronto, Abu Dhabi and Beijing...
If those new services actually start in 2005...

Thanks for the info!

VFlies

cathayoneworld · Post by **cathayoneworld** » 17 Apr 2005, 15:35

Hong Kong would be the first Asian destination to served by SN Brussels Airlines if SN expand to Asia because SN has good relations with oneworld and Hong Kong is the Asian oneworld hub. CX can provide many flights for SN passenger to South East Asia and Australia.

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