Charleroi Airport (CRL) latest news 2012

[liege-bierset]

This good news for CLR.
But what I hate to see, once again is: "...were warmly welcomed by André Antoine, Walloon Minister...blablabla."
Fed-up to see politicians showing-up for positive news ( Antoine is the champion) and not when really needing them.

[sn26567]

Mr Antoine also said there was room in Belgium for two major international airports, and he hoped that from 2014 there will be transatlantic flights from CRL.

[galaxy]

Mr Antoine also said there was room in Belgium for two major international airports, and he hoped that from 2014 there will be transatlantic flights from CRL.

Santa Claus is coming soon.

[airazurxtror]

Santa Claus is coming soon.

And he might be bringing a lenghtening of the CRL runway.
CRL too small for a transatlantic carrier ?
At one time, there were low-cost transatlantic flights from Luxemburg, to New York or Chicago via Reikjavik (Loftleidir Icelandic) and to Nassau via Shannon (International Air Bahamas).

[Acid-drop]

it is pretty sure it will come one day in belgium ...
Now in Charleroi with Ryanair, or in Brussels with Aer Lingus ... that's another question ...

[airtrainer]

Why should it be free ?

It should be free when an airport label itself as "the friendly airport"

[crlhub]

Clermont-Ferrand - Charleroi,as of april 2013.

http://www.tourmag.com/Clermont-Ferrand ... 55667.html

http://www.lanouvellegazette.be/608336/ ... i-en-avril

[VEX802]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... Paris.html

The airline plans to launch more routes to destinations within a one-hour flight time from Brighton, which could include Brussels Charleroi, Amsterdam and Calais.

The first Brighton to Paris flight is scheduled for March 6 with tickets available from December 1 at www.brightoncityairways.com.

[andorra-airport]

which could include Brussels Charleroi, Amsterdam and Calais.

Would be interesting to see a Let L-410 @ AMS + CRL.

[crlhub]

CRL CFE confirmed:

http://www.tourmag.com/Clermont-Ferrand ... 55997.html

[Conti764]

Santa Claus is coming soon.

And he might be bringing a lenghtening of the CRL runway.
CRL too small for a transatlantic carrier ?
At one time, there were low-cost transatlantic flights from Luxemburg, to New York or Chicago via Reikjavik (Loftleidir Icelandic) and to Nassau via Shannon (International Air Bahamas).

I guess if you want long haul flying from CRL, it would have to be a leisure company (JAF?) because a regular airline would always choose to fly from BRU. Unless FR would one day decide to go ahead with their transatlantic flights. If they'd do it via Aer Lingus, they'd do it from BRU as well.

[superfly]

I'll repeat an earlier post, other topic.
Why does BRU have to pay for the Belgocontrol cost of operating CRL?

Internet doesn't need to be free. Just offer it at a low cost, I like the idea of 1 euro/hour.

[sn26567]

Internet doesn't need to be free. Just offer it at a low cost, I like the idea of 1 euro/hour.

Have you ever seen Telenet offering something at a low cost? By keeping a high cost, they scare away some potential customers.

A better idea, used by many airports, is to offer the first half hour free of charge and then charge as much as they want.

[Flanker2]

VEX802 wrote:
which could include Brussels Charleroi, Amsterdam and Calais.


Would be interesting to see a Let L-410 @ AMS + CRL.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... Paris.html

The airline plans to launch more routes to destinations within a one-hour flight time from Brighton, which could include Brussels Charleroi, Amsterdam and Calais.

The first Brighton to Paris flight is scheduled for March 6 with tickets available from December 1 at http://www.brightoncityairways.com.

People call me crazy for pushing for a Q400 on 2 hour routes.
2 hours and a half on a Let410? Which I shall remind is an unpressurised aircraft with toilets as an option...

[airazurxtror]

Two new routes by Ryanair, from 1 April 2013 :
- to Rijeka - RJK - in Croatia, on mondays
- to Zakynthos (Zante in french) - ZTH - Ionian Island, Greece, monday and friday. (Jetairfly fly there from Brussels).

[Desert Rat]

http://www.sabca.be/pages/0141/News.93.en.php

1200th F-16 delivered @ Sabca

[sn26567]

Two new routes by Ryanair, from 1 April 2013 :
- to Rijeka - RJK - in Croatia, on mondays
- to Zakynthos (Zante in french) - ZTH - Ionian Island, Greece, monday and friday. (Jetairfly fly there from Brussels).

Zakinthos only once weekly:

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FR6948 CRL1540 – 1835ZTH 738 1
FR6949 ZTH1900 – 2155CRL 738 1

[airazurxtror]

The management of Brussels South Charleroi airport fully trust the safety of Ryanair operations, and say it again after the controversial Dutch TV report :
http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.a ... 9_00249761
(in french)

[convair]

MOL really has them in his hand! Read the last 3 lines of that article...

[airazurxtror]

The last three lines :

David Gering a en outre indiqué que Ryanair malgré une volonté marquée de maîtrise de ses coûts ne transigeait jamais avec les règles de sécurité.