2010 Liège Airport (LGG) latest news

[Acid-drop]

LGG with replace the lighting in the traffic zone with LED lighting (which uses significantly less energy).
Investment of 422 750 euros. The Return On Investment is only 4 years.

[Terwilliger]

So, we are now approaching July and the question then becomes: Where are those 767s that supposedly should have started arriving in May? There is even talk of an agreement between the unions and management on deviations from the current contract specifically for a 767 operation.

But no sign of the aircraft.

[regi]

So, we are now approaching July and the question then becomes: Where are those 767s that supposedly should have started arriving in May? There is even talk of an agreement between the unions and management on deviations from the current contract specifically for a 767 operation.

But no sign of the aircraft.

I hope that it has nothing to do with cracking engine pods

[liege-bierset]

Positive news from TNT: LGG-HKG-LGG
Frequency increases from 3 flights/week to 5/W.. Starting early July.
Also new link LGG- India in Q4
(Source: L' Echo de la bourse)

[Desert Rat]

Positive news from TNT: LGG-HKG-LGG
Frequency increases from 3 flights/week to 5/W.. Starting early July.
Also new link LGG- India in Q4
(Source: L' Echo de la bourse)

When TNT increase the rotations to some places, do they reduce them to others??

Or will they receive some new A/C's??

[grnkg]

Or will they receive some new A/C's??

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=41132&p=231033#p231033

There's your answer...

As for the 767:
There were actually 3 aircraft being prepared for TNT at IAI in Tel-Aviv, but TNT rejected them at the last moment because the paperwork (aircraft history) was a bit dodgy (to say the least ) and would take too much money and effort to get it straigtened out.

Doesn't mean the 767 is cancelled, but no new phase-in date has been announced yet...

For the 737-400 on the other side:
First aircraft due to arrive in August!
Phase-out of the current fleet starts in September, OO-TNI is the first one to go...

Kind regards,
GR.

[Acid-drop]

Positive news from TNT: LGG-HKG-LGG
Frequency increases from 3 flights/week to 5/W.. Starting early July.
Also new link LGG- India in Q4
(Source: L' Echo de la bourse)

When TNT increase the rotations to some places, do they reduce them to others??

Or will they receive some new A/C's??

I guess they'll use 3 of their 4 744, as announced already a few months ago

[Acid-drop]

just an official press (nothing new)
http://www.group.tnt.com/press/512822/pressrelease.aspx

[an-148]

http://www.aircargonews.net/News/First- ... ralia.aspx

[Desert Rat]

52502 tons in June

[Acid-drop]

Don't know since when, ... but it's now online
with history and eveything. Better like that
http://liegeairport.com/en/cargo-volumes

[Desert Rat]

Don't know since when, ... but it's now online
with history and eveything. Better like that
http://liegeairport.com/en/cargo-volumes

I still prefer your pdf, with the previous years tonnage...

[an-148]

http://www.inforwarding.com/message.asp?message=44134

[liege-bierset]

Here, we go again... What a steam !
http://www.lelloyd.be/nieuws/id28943-FA ... _Voka.html
Btw: I didn't know that we were importing witloof from Africa

[grnkg]

Hi all,

"New" BAe146 on the Belgian register: OO-TAQ

Previously known as I-TNTC operated by MistralAir, stored at NWI from August 2009, back into service since October 2009 with TNT Airways as G-BNPJ.

Kind regards,
GR.

[Desert Rat]

http://www.lalibre.be/toutelinfo/belga/ ... erset.html

Gravity extension??

[sdbelgium]

• TNT to add one wet-leased B744F in September 2010
• B747-8F not to be considered anymore
• 3 new B777F in 2011, first one arrives in August
• 1 B757F wet-leased as from late 2011
• A B767F leased in for evaluation

Source: http://www.flightlevel.be/3211/geen-747 ... lt-op-777f

[cnc]

"Gedurende de laatste 2 jaar hebben we de ontwikkeling van de Boeing 747-8F op de voet gevolgd omdat we geloofden in de toekomst van dit vliegtuig. We dachten dat dit ons toekomstig toestel zou zijn, om verder uit te breiden. Het is ons nu echter duidelijk geworden dat het vliegtuig niet de gedachte prestaties zou kunnen afleveren. We overwogen daarom om voor de 777LRF te kiezen en dat is uiteindelijk ook de keuze geworden”

c'mon the a fully loaded 748F must be a lot more economical. The only reason you'd want the 777 is its range in such a case

[liege-bierset]

Altogether, this is very good news. Does it mean new destinations in Asia ? (India, Japon...)

[liege-bierset]

Here is the original message in English:

Dear Colleagues,

Ever since we launched our longhaul activities we have been successful in positioning ourselves on the Asian market and managed to grab the growth opportunities of this buoyant market. The introduction and operation of the B747ERF was a key move and a determining element to this success as well as our strategy with Emirates Airlines.

You are probably aware that we are now operating 3 dedicated B744ERF’s between LGG and Asia and as of September we will add a 4th aircraft through the Wet Lease-in of a B744F.

During the last 2 years we have followed closely the development of the B747-8F which we believed would be our expansion aircraft. However, it is now clear that the aircraft will not meet the performance extrapolation of the B744ERF. We have therefore considered and subsequently selected the B777LRF.

I am pleased to announce that TNT Airways has secured the delivery of three new B777-200 Long Range Freighters for 2011.

As of last week, the Supervisory Board of TNT Group has granted us its approval for the B777LRF. The first aircraft delivery is scheduled for August 2011. They will operate alongside our existing fleet of B744ERF’s to Asia and are expansion aircraft.

This is great news for GAN’s development and a decisive element to continuing winning market share in Asia. I will present at the next Staff Meeting our business rational and the economical advantages that lead us to decide in
favour of the B777.

This is a significant project and the introduction of this new aircraft type will require some
organisational changes within TAY which will be addressed in September.

Finally you will have no doubt noticed last week information regarding the NATO Contract and the fact that we will be adding the B757 to our fleet by late 2011. We are considering to add a mid size freighter (I.e. B767) however we have not yet been able to conclude and decided to take further time to validate our business cases. It is therefore very likely that we would launch cover the interim with Wet Leased B767.

Best Regards,

Niky Terzakis

Managing Director

P.S. Will this impact Hong Kong Air projects for Brussels link ?