2008-2009 Liège Airport (LGG) latest news

[an-148]

prefigurating the future eurocarex-TGV freight lines, the section between Liège and the german border has been inaugurated yesterday (in addition to the passenger traffic, it will also serve the freight in direction to CGN and/or FRA):
http://www.televesdre.eu/site/inaugurat ... 99-89.html

[an-148]

new joint-venture for maintainance:
http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/u ... ort-116542

[Acid-drop]

Cargo tonnage for JAN-MAY 2009: 177,189 tons
(2008 : 232,8 tons - it means 23% decrease)

They are not good result, but it's better than other surrounding airport, it seems
If you got the stats of others, i'm interested, it's not so easy to find them

Source:
http://www.liegeairport.com/liege-airpo ... go_008.htm
http://aeroports.wallonie.be/opencms/ex ... 090213.pdf

[Acid-drop]

Dutch Air Cargo selected Liège for their Madrid flights.

They use the following schedule
12345-- MNL801 F27 LGG 19:25 MAD 23:25
1234-6- MNL802 F27 MAD 00:30 LGG 04:30

http://www.dutchaircargo.eu/News_Dutcha ... ownload=60

[an-148]

latest eurocarex news:
http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... piste.html

[Acid-drop]

tonnage JAN-JUN : 213.609 tons
decrease of 22% but they started the year with -27%, so it's getting slightly better.
Source : http://www.liegeairport.com/liege-airpo ... go_009.htm

I guess LGG is confirmed as #1 cargo airport in Belgium, we'll have to wait the stats of BRU to be sure.

[Acid-drop]

tonnage JAN-JUL : 252.911 tons
(last year at that time : 319.000 tons, so it's a decrease of 20%)
Source : http://www.liegeairport.com/liege-airpo ... go_010.htm

LGG is confirmed as #1 cargo airport in Belgium (BRU at 242.6 (-42.7%))

[Acid-drop]

some nice articles

Liege On The Freighter Map
http://www.aircargoworld.com/Magazine/W ... ighter-Map

The World's Top 50 Airports
http://www.aircargoworld.com/Magazine/F ... 0-Airports

[Lyulka]

Rumours are going that Avient has the intention to move it's base to LGG from XCR.
(credits pprune.org)

[Acid-drop]

An avient plane visited Liège a few days ago, we'll see
(PICS : http://www.mst-aviation.nl/portal/modul ... ic&t=14550 )

Another important news :
The THAI CARGO team also investigated the readiness of Frankfurt Hahn Airport and Liege Airport for the possibility that 2 airports can be hubs for Europe and Africa for the freighter services of THAI in the near future.

http://www.thaicargo.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.asp

Let's hope LGG wins !!

[Acid-drop]

Avient to Liège : now official
http://www.avient.aero/Newsroom.htm

[Acid-drop]

Good news keep coming from Liège airport
this time, Carex, the Freight TGV.
It's moving a lot and is still planned for 2013
http://www.lalibre.be/economie/actualit ... vance.html

By this time I guess LGG could be in the top5 like the other airports of the carex project : cdg, lhr, ams

[an-148]

first avient DC10 has landed sheduled at 09:40 LT:
http://www.mst-aviation.nl/portal/modul ... ic&t=14945

[Nevihta]

Avient already came a few times to LGG with DC-10

[an-148]

Avient already came a few times to LGG with DC-10

therefore, I wrote:"scheduled"

[Nevihta]

Sorry, I was wrong about the exact meaning of "scheduled".

[Acid-drop]

more good news

- the minister of defence wants to suppress the military base of Bierset. it means faster expantion possible for LGG.

- From the 16th of September TNT should start flying non-stop to Hong-Kong 3x weekly!
LGG-HKG 1-3-5-- STD 1155 TAY47 B747-400F
HKG-LGG -2-4-6- STA 1505 TAY48 B747-400F

Source : TNT (via mst-aviation)

[Desert Rat]

more good news

- the minister of defence wants to suppress the military base of Bierset. it means faster expantion possible for LGG.

(via mst-aviation)

Good news???

This guy, PDCrem, just act like a dictator... he was visiting the base 4 days before....kind of guy who likes to throw the monkey wrench into the works...

Anyway, we know what team he is playing for...

http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/belgique ... 7351.shtml

[jan_olieslagers]

Good news???

From an aviation point of view, it certainly seems so: Liege airport badly needs the terrain for its expansion, allowing the creation of new jobs. The current 750 military staff will not be sacked, mind you, they will "only" have to relocate.

[Conti764]

Anyway, we know what team he is playing for...

http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/belgique ... 7351.shtml

Which is...? For your info, the ops at Bierset will be moved to Beauchevain, in... Wallonia. So what's the problem?

Finally somebody who is going to take necessary messures with the army, after the big useless spender who's name is Flahaut...