By: Comet - 19th November 2001 at 13:30
RE: sabena folds
Yes, I do mean Virgin Express. Their look is cheap, tacky and damned awful. I planned to fly LHR to BRU until I discovered that SABENA had given the routes to Virgin Express, and then I had to go from MAN. Although their planes carry the OO registration, I do not regard them as “proper” Belgian because Virgin is not a Belgian company – it is the company which runs some of the worst trains in Britain!!
Also, I do not think they look like something out of Russia, the Aeroflot planes look smart by comparison Geforce!!!
By: Geforce - 16th November 2001 at 19:10
RE: sabena folds
Yep the uhly red planes. Look like some remainders of the soviet union 🙂
By: ajcollins2 - 16th November 2001 at 15:36
RE: sabena folds
that airline with the red planes isnt Virgin Express by any chance?
–VAE–
By: Comet - 15th November 2001 at 11:17
RE: sabena folds
LAST EDITED ON 15-11-01 AT 11:19Â AM (GMT)[p]I have just visited that site, is it some kind of SABENA staff site? That’s the impression I get from the forum registration. I run my own SABENA forum on Yahoo clubs. It has just been broadened to take into account DAT, SOBELAIR and VLM.
By: Geforce - 8th November 2001 at 19:43
RE: sabena folds
visit
“You just lost your flight? Well, I just lost my job”
— sabena employee —
By: Geforce - 8th November 2001 at 19:41
RE: sabena folds
The problem about DAT is that DAT does not have all the rights Sabena has. The slots on foreign airports, and even the ones on Brussels Int, are not owned by DAT, but by Sabena, which is out of business now. In theory, every airlinecompany can now claim those rights. All now depends on what the official receivers will do. If a new company – Air Belgium, based on DAT – will rise from the grave, they won’t have it easy for the next years. 200 million € is not much. Most of it will be paid by private investors, but the three states of belgian will also support the new company. Nice initiative you would say … but in this country everything is possible. Within a couple of months we’ll make the same mistakes again, if you know that these 3 states can not cooperate together without having to argue about 101 different kind of problems. Destinated to fail i would say … pity.
The flying bird … a painting made by Margritte which represents the Sabena logo, will be sold now. Price … about 3 million €. Interrested? You can always visit it at Mullers office.
Geforce –
“You just lost your flight? Well, I just lost my job”
— sabena employee —
By: Comet - 8th November 2001 at 10:00
RE: sabena folds
Loved the tale about Sabena crashing Swissair’s computer!! The obnoxious Swiss airline is still flying while the superb Belgian one has gone, the scenes from Brussels airport were depressing to say the least, with empty check-ins and staff just sat around on the floor as the news broke. I don’t blame them for demonstrating yesterday. If DAT take on the routes that won’t be as bad, they are charming to fly with and at least they were part of Sabena and the main thing is that they are Belgian, not like that dreadful no-frills airline with the awful red planes who took Sabena’s Heathrow route. I am completely with the Belgians on this one, long live VLM and DAT.
By: frankvw - 7th November 2001 at 21:37
RE: sabena folds
Even if it would be sad for SAir’s employees who are also victims, i am thinking like you, Benjamin…
It’s black day
Frank
By: Geforce - 7th November 2001 at 18:25
RE: sabena folds
Damn, how can I be enthousiastic about a country that can not even save its own flag carrier? Poor Sabena, indeed such a bad experience NEVER AGAIN. I hope SAir will have to deal with the same problems. Let them go banckrupt themselves … arrogant assholes.
One nice thing happened today … the sabena employees managed to crash the SAir check-in computersystem in Zurich. Haha, let those Swissies suffer 🙂
Geforce
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