747 at EBBR

moons · Post by **moons** » 21 Aug 2004, 12:10

Maybe a stupid question but...does a 747 fits at Pier A?
Or does any wide-body aircraft fits at these gates?
The US carriers are always at B-gates and the A 330's of SNBA too.
SQ 747 which flew at BRU was also at B-gates.
Was Pier A designed for smaller carriers only?

greetz

744rules · Post by **744rules** » 21 Aug 2004, 12:15

The A-pier is dedicated for a flights to Schengen-countries, which results in the fact that mostly smaller a/c are used (a 747 for bru-ams would be rather a waste of money and time).

I don't think it would be a problem to dock a 747 at the a-pier. The largest a/c parked there are the 767 and the a300 so far.

If memory serves well, there might even have been a OA A340, but not sure about that one.

moons · Post by **moons** » 21 Aug 2004, 12:28

So that's the story

But I think that the North side has a smaller space, isn't it? If you park a 747, wouldn't that cause problems for the aircrafts who pass behind it?
Is there enough space for another a/c to taxi behind it ?

greetz

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » 21 Aug 2004, 13:00

I think the A-pier can handle 2 747's. Just my €0.02

744rules · Post by **744rules** » 21 Aug 2004, 13:06

Some parking stands have a left/right position, where the left position is for wide-bodies, the right for narrow bodies.

Same story at B-pier

Will try to find out exactly next week, if times permits

Post by **sn26567** » 21 Aug 2004, 13:15

744rules wrote:A 747 for bru-ams would be rather a waste of money and time.

When PanAm flew the first 747 to BRU, it was on a JFK-AMS-BRU-AMS-JFK route. And PanAm had traffic rights on BRU-AMS.

Many people at that time took the BRU-AMS trip just to try the 747 without flying transatlantic.

Later, Sabena also flew BRU-LGW with a 747 as part of its BRU-LGW-ATL route, codeshared with defunct BCal.

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 21 Aug 2004, 13:35

moons,

on the A-pier, there are 5 (I think 5) gates designed for the 747 or other heavies. Don't ask me wich ones, because I don't know nothing

.

Brubiac will probably know more about this...

greettzzz

Post by **luchtzak** » 21 Aug 2004, 13:42

Yeah, where is BruBiac to answer this

Airborne · Post by **Airborne** » 21 Aug 2004, 14:15

Jense wrote:on the A-pier, there are 5 (I think 5) gates designed for the 747 or other heavies.

You're very close! Six of the contact gates are designated to receive jumbojets or other big aircrafts.

moons wrote:But I think that the North side has a smaller space, isn't it? If you park a 747, wouldn't that cause problems for the aircrafts who pass behind it?
Is there enough space for another a/c to taxi behind it ?

You're right! The six gates for widebodies are located on the south side of Pier A because there isn't enough space on the north side.

Greetzzz,
Kristof

moons · Post by **moons** » 21 Aug 2004, 15:08

thx for the answers !

Now I want to see a nice 747 at one of these gates, would be a nice sight because I like Pier A.

greetz

MD-11er · Post by **MD-11er** » 21 Aug 2004, 17:23

You can always call Alitalia or Iberia and ask them to send one for the last day of the Summer season to bring back all the Belgians who enjoyed the sun overthere while we are in rainy days

8)

Post by **luchtzak** » 21 Aug 2004, 18:54

I remembered that a few weeks ago the Iberia A340-300 was standing at terminal A gate A53 - 153L

https://www.aviation24.be/postp47918.html#47918

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 22 Aug 2004, 01:45

luchtzak wrote:I remembered that a few weeks ago the Iberia A340-300 was standing at terminal A gate A53 - 153L

https://www.aviation24.be/postp47918.html#47918

Yes, I saw this aircraft standing there too. It was on a sunday morning while I was walking to our dispatch. I thought I was dreaming. Never saw an A340 of Iberia berore at Brussels.
Somebody told me that this can happen once in a while. Iberia only sold tickets on this aircraft if it was a A320. There were only around 80 passengers on this A340 flying that day to Madrid. This only happens once a new captain gets released. Before operating normally like captain they have to do a certain amount of landings. So the companys puts the aircraft on small routs, like BRU-MAD, so the fresh captain gets his number of landings and take-offs.
This also happened quit frequently with Sabena, where an A340 would fly on the European routs.

terenia · Post by **terenia** » 22 Aug 2004, 10:19

waldova wrote:This also happened quit frequently with Sabena, where an A340 would fly on the European routs.

Correct: I flew once an SN A340 from LHR to BRU.

Post by **Kapitein** » 23 Aug 2004, 18:29

Sorry guys, I was in Germany for the WRC so I could not answer immediatly.

In theory there is no problem to park a 747 at pier-A. The only possible stands are 145L, 149L, 153L, 157L, 165L, 169L.

But, there is always a but here in BRU, the servicedrive behind the stands is not painted very well IMO. When the 747 is at the stand, the tail is around 10 meters over the servicedrive.

It's possible but it's not easy.

MiStEr-T · Post by **MiStEr-T** » 28 Aug 2004, 02:04

The plane with a yellow/orange tail at the end of the A-pier..
I think it's a wide-body. (hidden by the little tower)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/317894/L/

TBK :jump:

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 28 Aug 2004, 12:29

MiStEr-T wrote:The plane with a yellow/orange tail at the end of the A-pier..
I think it's a wide-body. (hidden by the little tower)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/317894/L/

Isn't that a B767 from DE ?

Chris

Post by **Bottie** » 28 Aug 2004, 12:38

Avro wrote:
MiStEr-T wrote:The plane with a yellow/orange tail at the end of the A-pier..
I think it's a wide-body. (hidden by the little tower)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/317894/L/
Isn't that a B767 from DE ?

Chris

I was just thinking the same

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 29 Aug 2004, 00:13

No this Boeing 767 is of Condor flying in Thomas cook colors. It comes almost every day to Brussels this summer and is always standing at the A pier. It is flying tourists in and out of Spain.

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 29 Aug 2004, 00:39

waldova wrote:No this Boeing 767 is of Condor flying in Thomas cook colors. It comes almost every day to Brussels this summer and is always standing at the A pier. It is flying tourists in and out of Spain.

Euhm, sorry but... did you saw the date of the picture?

greettzzz