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- 28 Jul 2020, 10:08
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2020
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 620780
Re: Brussels Airlines in 2020
When the parent company goes under, meaning that they fail financially, by definition all subsidiaries do as well, because a parent company is the sum of all subsidiaries and eventual core activity. If 'goes under' means 'go into bankrupcy' then this statement is factually wrong. If a subsidiary is...
- 07 Jun 2020, 09:22
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2020
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 620780
Re: Brussels Airlines in 2020
The macro numbers are not good. Company fundamentals are bad across the board and getting worse by the day. Indeed, but usually when this happens, there is an economic root cause that generated these numbers. In this case it is an unprecedented worldwide months long lock down of a large part of the...
- 18 May 2020, 21:10
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2020
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 620780
- 04 May 2020, 11:04
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2020
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 620780
Re: Brussels Airlines in 2020
The discussion whether an airline should be bailed out or not goes far beyond the mere calculation of taxes and avoided cost of unemployment. The trade off includes far more variables than merely the direct fiscal impact. Other questions need to be answered as well: how do you want to position Bruss...
- 01 Oct 2018, 14:46
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Air Belgium in 2018
- Replies: 1859
- Views: 426448
Re: Air Belgium in 2018
It doesn't take an MBA to understand that competing against well established carriers in one of the most competitive markets with a new brand, bad shedule, secundary airport, small marketing budget while relying on the patience of your investment partners is a short term and short lived strategy.
- 01 Aug 2018, 18:29
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Ryanair in 2018
- Replies: 330
- Views: 186387
Re: Ryanair in 2018
And the European authorities should also condemn the trade unions for using passengers as gunpowder in their internal battle with Ryanair's management. Wet van 11.07.1990 houdende goedkeuring van het Europees Sociaal Handvest en van de Bijlage, opgemaakt te Turijn op 18 oktober 1961 Striking is a f...
- 06 Mar 2018, 14:58
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Air Belgium in 2018
- Replies: 1859
- Views: 426448
Re: Air Belgium in 2018
Jup, Just parked next to it today.SR20 wrote: ↑06 Mar 2018, 08:29 Looks like one of the A343's is performing training at LGG today !
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Information confirmed by a friend of mine working at Liege Tower !
- 06 Mar 2018, 14:54
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Air Belgium in 2018
- Replies: 1859
- Views: 426448
Re: Air Belgium: a rebirth?
Seems that the Belgian flag besides the registration is backwards contrary to virtually any other airline in the industry. You have to give it to them, they are persistent in having the wrong flag on their planes :mrgreen: (OK, i'll stop mentioning it now, guess it's my tiny OCD issue) :mrgreen: If...
- 24 Sep 2017, 10:35
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Ryanair cancels 2,100 flights in Sep-Oct 2017, and 18,000 more in Nov 2017-Mar 2018
- Replies: 181
- Views: 46280
Re: Ryanair cancels 40-50 flights a day from mid-September to end-October 2017
This is just a classic example of "what goes around, comes around". MoL's way of doing business is based on bargaining power. For most of Ryanair's history they have worked themselves in a superior negotiating position with all the stakeholders they do business with. Be it pilot's in despe...
- 23 Sep 2017, 10:11
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Ryanair cancels 2,100 flights in Sep-Oct 2017, and 18,000 more in Nov 2017-Mar 2018
- Replies: 181
- Views: 46280
- 18 Sep 2017, 18:37
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Ryanair cancels 2,100 flights in Sep-Oct 2017, and 18,000 more in Nov 2017-Mar 2018
- Replies: 181
- Views: 46280
Re: Ryanair cancels 40-50 flights a day from mid-September to end-October 2017
This airline is a disgrace for aviation. I hope ALL affected passengers will file for a reimbursement AND compensation! Some will, some won't and Ryanair will continue prospering because people tend to put money over principles: the prices Ryanair seems to offer are simply 'to good to refuse' for m...
- 18 Sep 2017, 17:23
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Ryanair cancels 2,100 flights in Sep-Oct 2017, and 18,000 more in Nov 2017-Mar 2018
- Replies: 181
- Views: 46280
Re: Ryanair cancels 40-50 flights a day from mid-September to end-October 2017
What a joke! It's a simple capacity screw-up. So be a man and suck it up. Same goes for their pax by the way: if you pay peanuts you get monkesy. Fly a descent airline where at least the intention is to serve you and srew-ups are supposed to be the exception instead of general policy.
- 23 Aug 2017, 21:59
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Swissport wildcat strike at Brussels Airport - 22/08/2017
- Replies: 76
- Views: 16577
Re: Swissport wildcat strike at Brussels Airport - 22/08/2017
Why not putting stickers on the bags of the passengers with the message you're wanting to spread? Or do something else, something original. Uhm...probably because that - although cute and cheesy - would have zero impact on your working conditions or salary in the foreseeable future? Let's face the ...
- 30 Apr 2017, 11:37
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
- Replies: 4816
- Views: 2346226
Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Let's hope that BA doesn't decide based on a wishlist like some of the above comments but rather on objective criteria such as market potential, competitive pressure, synergy and complementarity with the existing operations, labour agreements, etc.
- 17 Mar 2017, 07:37
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airlines future and financial perspective
- Replies: 1895
- Views: 570366
- 03 Mar 2017, 13:18
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: TUI fly Belgium in 2017
- Replies: 213
- Views: 72630
Re: TUI fly Belgium in 2017
As a commercial company, the trick is to keep the service people are willing to pay for. If someone tells you it's a pitty to see a part of the service disappearing, the logical question is how much more they are willing to pay for that service. Unfortunately, the answer is often 0€. I for example w...
- 02 Jan 2017, 11:46
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 1006379
Re: BRU infrastructure: future
It might be too simplistic, but why not extend the taxiway at the other side (south) of the runway. This means that the planes cross the runway while taxiing, but that is very common on a lot of airports. Then no houses will need to dissapear? 1) safety: why would you build-in runway crossings by d...
- 08 Dec 2016, 09:31
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Would you consider a go-around as an abnormality?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5700
Re: Would you consider a go-around as an abnormality?
Well, there's no abnormal checklist for the go-around. It's just a standard procedure that is applied if you're not satisfied with the approach (avoiding runway conflicts, weather below minima, unstable approach, etc.). It is obviously not the purpose to fly a go-around, but you should always be go-...
- 06 Oct 2016, 12:13
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Lufthansa buys the remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines
- Replies: 607
- Views: 138532
Re: Lufthansa buys the remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines
My best guess is that the decision center will be centralized in Germany, so most overhead and non-core activities will be consolidated in the group. Next to that the plan will also be to keep increasing the activities at BRU, thereby growing the business while preparing the business model for furth...
- 29 Sep 2016, 20:10
- Forum: Latest aviation news
- Topic: Lufthansa buys the remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines
- Replies: 607
- Views: 138532
Re: Lufthansa buys the remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines
Long haul? Cargo? Technics? Average ticket price?
FR: 10000 staff for 117000000: 1 staff member for 11700.