Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal

[CTBke]

The Flybe contract with Brussels Airlines (wet-lease of two Q400s), which expires in October 2017, will not be extended.

I guess that the Q400-operated flights will be served by SSJ100s.

It's about time! Flying the Q400, what a nightmare !

logical next step, as the WX contract is replacing the BE contract

[koninckske]

About 40 Belgian pilots and cabin crew will loose their job in Brussels, because SN did not renew the Flybe contract yet. Not a Brussels Airlines decision, but one made in Frankfurt...

[Av24.be]

About 40 Belgian pilots and cabin crew will loose their job in Brussels, because SN did not renew the Flybe contract yet. Not a Brussels Airlines decision, but one made in Frankfurt...

Please elaborate.

[sn26567]

About 40 Belgian pilots and cabin crew will loose their job in Brussels, because SN did not renew the Flybe contract yet. Not a Brussels Airlines decision, but one made in Frankfurt...

Do you mean Flybe employs Belgian crew? I never heard any of them speaking French or Dutch. Or even German...

[koninckske]

Since 2016 Belgian contracts, paying taxes in Belgium... All of the Brussels based crew speak Dutch and/or French. Many people from the old VLM have joined Flybe...

[sean1982]

Since 2016 Belgian contracts, paying taxes in Belgium... All of the Brussels based crew speak Dutch and/or French. Many people from the old VLM have joined Flybe...

True, I also know a few people who were recruited by flybe for SN ops

[sn26567]

Not later than one month ago I flew a Flybe Q400 operating for SN to BLL and the crew spoke English and English only! Both way!

But even if there are Belgian crew based in Brussels, I guess they could follow the planes and relocate to England, Sweden or wherever they will be needed.

[crew1990]

As far as I know, there is no Flybe crew "based" in Brussels and they don't have a Belgian contract, same apply for BMI, only City Jet has FR/NL/EN speaker crew with Belgian contract

[Fokkeriaan]

Yes there are!

[koninckske]

As far as I know, there is no Flybe crew "based" in Brussels and they don't have a Belgian contract, same apply for BMI, only City Jet has FR/NL/EN speaker crew with Belgian contract

You are telling me that I don't know what kind of contract I have

[shockcooling]

Indeed, I've heard a lot of Dutch speaking crews in the crew room, even seen an ex-sn ccm

[AIRMARSHAL]

sad to see them go, I love to fly turboprops

[CTBke]

As far as I know, there is no Flybe crew "based" in Brussels and they don't have a Belgian contract, same apply for BMI, only City Jet has FR/NL/EN speaker crew with Belgian contract

There certainly is a Brussels base for Flybe, and even a sort of base manager too they have a contract for a certain amount of time with the option to fly for Flybe UK once the SN contract is finished.

And most of them speak English or French but there are a few who speak dutch too

[crew1990]

The question now is how those 2 Q400 will be replaced, A319? ERJ145? SSJ100?

[nordikcam]

The question now is how those 2 Q400 will be replaced, A319? ERJ145? SSJ100?

I guess the moderator sn25567 had the answer some posts ago : SSJ100 with Cityjet ...no ?

[Boeing767copilot]

Don't forget that CityJet has exercised options to purchase four CRJ900 aircraft from Canadian manufacturer Bombardier.

[crew1990]

But don't you think that one of the reasons they want to get rid of those Q400 are maybe to harmonise the regional wet lease fleet? So it would be strange if they replace the Q400 by CRJ900?

If they go for the SSJ100 of cityjet, this would mean that there would be in total 5 SSJ100 leased from them?

[Fokkeriaan]

.....or LH equipment......D8's from tyrolean/austrian, to keep it in house.....

[sn26567]

Don't forget that CityJet has exercised options to purchase four CRJ900 aircraft from Canadian manufacturer Bombardier.

For wet-lease to SAS.

[SLM]

How many Avro aircraft are still flying for SN? Registrations? I will fly on 20th June to Bologna, normally on SSJ but they have changed it for RJ100.
Many thanks.