BRU 24/12/2010

[tangolima]

Hello,

Air Sweden A320 SE-RJN for FQ:

ETD. 08.00 as FQ 5502 to ALC and AGP
ETA. 15.50 as FQ 5503 from ALC and AGP

Merry Christmas,

[sn26567]

Information from Brussels Airport: The heavy snowfall causes capacity problems on the ground and as a result of that we can't handle incoming traffic for the moment.

Indeed, there are already a huge number of cancellations, delays and diversions. Diverted:

JAF4464 from Luxor via Aqaba
FQ 4383 from Sharm El Sheik to Ostend (now back in BRU)
9W 225 from New York to Ostend
US 750 from Philadelphia (seems to be flying to CGN or FRA)
AA 172 from New York
AA 088 from Chicago
AZ 148 from Milan LIN
LY 331 from Tel Aviv
SN 2324 from Goteborg to Ostend (now back in BRU)
SN 2724 from Geneva
JU 272 from Belgrade via Amsterdam

[sn26567]

No arrivals at BRU until 15:00 UTC. TWYs and stands are blocked.

EBBR ZERO RATE ARRIVALS UNLESS DECLARED EMERGENCY
FLIGHT LEVEL FROM SFC TO UNL
VALID FROM 0700 24-DEC-2010 TO 1100 24-DEC-2010: (A2602/10)

For departures there is 1 RWY in use but we have a lot of delays and cancellations.

[Phatius]

Apparently, JAI 225 (JFK-BRU) was allowed to depart OST at 11.25, landing foreseen 12.10 in BRU...

[sn26567]

Note from Eurocontrol: EBBR
Brussels Arrivals Reduced rate 3/60
Wie until 2359 UTC due to snow.
Delays up to 700 Min.

[sn26567]

HU 7907 from Shanghai diverted to Ostend
JAF5358 from Alicante diverted to OST
RB 427 from Damascus via Beirut diverted
AC 832 from Toronto via Montreal diverted to London LHR (!)

[Acid-drop]

OST is hot
good for them

[Mick Janssens]

All BA flights will divert to RTM.

[sdbelgium]

Upgrade:
RAM838 opd CN-ROG B763

[suppie]

Upgrade:
RAM838 opd CN-ROG B763

What time shud this a/c be there?? so I can prepare things here at AMS

[sdbelgium]

Scheduled to land about now.

[sn26567]

Info from BAC 3 min ago: Today we had 70+ departures and 10+ arrivals till now...we hope to increase that in the following hours.

[sdbelgium]

Scheduled to land about now.

Landed 16.01LT according to brusselsairport.be

[hvs89]

Some shots of today.
Btw I strongly recommend you not to take the "Zeven Tommen" with your car (left side of the treshold of RWY02). I spend more than an hour stucked in the snow, and a tractor was necessary to get me out of that sh**... There is so much snow that the road isn't visible

[torchus]

Great pics! Really like the last one. What equipment do you use ?

How's the condition of the other roads around BRU (Kortenbergsesteenweg, Ringlaan-Abelag, Namenstraat-soccerfields, 127bis road, ...) ?
I might go spotting on monday, but when there's snow all over the roads, I might reconsider this. And it doesn't look like the snow will melt before monday ...

[hvs89]

Great pics! Really like the last one. What equipment do you use ?

Thanks !
Canon EOS 7D + 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM (for sale btw) + teleconverter 1.4x II

How's the condition of the other roads around BRU (Kortenbergsesteenweg, Ringlaan-Abelag, Namenstraat-soccerfields, 127bis road, ...) ?
I might go spotting on monday, but when there's snow all over the roads, I might reconsider this. And it doesn't look like the snow will melt before monday ...

Main roads are OK. In general, roads used by busses (De Lijn & co) are cleared. However, smaler roads such as 127bis en soccer field are in poor conditions. I recommend you to go there by foot. And of course don't forget my last message : consider Zeven Tommen as a suicidal road Even 4 wheel drive are unable to escape. I recommend you to park your car in front of the last house before the fields

[Stij]

Good afternoon,

I was one of the victims yesterday. I had à flight to london with à connection to capetown with ba. After i learnt ba cancelled evrything out of bru, managed to rerout out of ams. ... I managed!

Greetings from 27 Degrees celcius,

Stij

P.'S. Merry Christmas everybody

[sn26567]

Did you then fly KL all the way instead of BA? Merry Christmas!

[Stij]

Did you then fly KL all the way instead of BA? Merry Christmas!

No, we flew ams lhr cpt. Ba just changed the bru lhr leg by the ams lhr leg.

Btw all my compliments to the teamleader of (the the handling agent of) ba in ams. Unfortunately his combination of effectiveness, friendlieness and knowledge becomes rare. Upon my return in Belgium, i 'll write a letter to ba to compliment him. IT was really exceptional!

Cheers mates,

Stij