RE: Good Idea

LOL LOL LOL

I my god, this is even worse than on AFM :+

Andrewman, here’s my email Benjamin_Muylaert@hotmail.com.
I already added you to my msn account, hope to have a chat with you !

RE: Ryanair

Well, they also operate from Charleroi (Belgium/Brussels south) and i guess they just started a service to and from Hamburg.

RE: Pic Of The Day-09/01/02!!

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-01-02 AT 06:44 PM (GMT)]:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( ‘:(

RE: Pic Of The Day-20/12/2001

add an F-16 to it :+

RE: VLM

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-01-02 AT 08:57 AM (GMT)]Hi comet,

I’ve flown with them (a short trip to London) 10 years ago. I was only 8 years old and I was alone, to visit my brother in Oxford. They took care of me very well (own stewardess etc for same price), but still they managed to lose me. Luckily my brother found me somwhere in Gatwick, trying to find a way out of that hellhole 🙂

I was to young to remember all the details, but they were very friendly and caring. That’s the most important thing. I was by that time already interrested in airplanes and we flew with a fokker 50, best experience ever. At least you know you’re flying, unlike the 747 and yhe A-340 (damn i’m gonna miss it :'( :'( :'( )

We took off from Antwerp, so much easier than Zaventem. (only flew once from Antwerp). Checking-in really goes fast, and taking off is always an adventure (after removing goats and cows from the runway :+)

DAMN, i can’t believe they are our biggest airline now. Very nice one, but still, no sabena :'( :'(

Only Avro’s

As far as I know, DAT is only operating the Avro’s at this moment. Maybe it will change after the contract with the Flemmisch government. The A-330/340’s will probably be the first ex-Sabena airbusses that will be operated by DAT, to fly intercontinental to Kinshasa (Congo). The flights to Africa are very important for DAT, especially now Air France is thinking of starting its own routes to Congo. I don’t know if they’re going to use the A-330 or A-340 for this.

RE: DAT Flies

No, because Thomas Cook was really considering to buy stocks from Citybird in the first place, so they must have seen in future in this company.

RE: DAT Flies

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 21-11-01 AT 07:15 PM (GMT)]Yeah great news about VLM flying transatlantic. Maybe there’s a big potential market on the west-coast of the USA.

Frank, I can’t agree more with you. Did you know that most of us belgians don’t give a damn about all this communotary crap? It’s just something that the “Vlaams Blok” and other extreme organisations here in Flanders use to promote their ideas. Still, it’s important that we both have our own governments, because there are big cultural differences between Flemmisch and Walloons. But it’s just a matter of years before we we’ll all be integrated in one big Europe, and than who will still care about such idiotic issues …

Some updates from the sabena frontline which won’t make to the international papers, but which might be interresting …

Sabena-technics (which is not banckrupt) is firing 700 employees since Sabena NV/SA (their biggest costumer, 40 % of profits) can’t provide new work for them.

Citybird, the other belgian airliner which has been declared banckrupt, wants to have the same social plan as the sabena employees. Impossible, since sabena was a public enterprise.

Easyjet is planning to organise flights to and from Brussels-Zaventem to some other major European cities.

Thomas Cook, the biggest belgian-german travelagency (partially responsable for Citybird’s failure), is discouraging their clients to fly with DAT. According to them, the future of DAT is too uncertain, but they do want to support them.

KLM is starting commercials on public and private tv-stations in Flanders. They probably want to get some of Sabena’s clients.

The Belgian parliament is questionning the responsability of our government in the sabena-case. There is a commission which has to investigate the responsability of the gov. Verhofstadt, but also of all gov. since 1960 … and yes even our beloved king will have to explain something.

The Belgian government is very precautious about such new incidents. The biggest public entreprise, our postal service (the post), wants to cut more jobs. Flemmisch liberals and Walloon socialists (both parties of our federal gov) are argueing about the future of our ‘post’. They don’t want another sabena-chapter, but this new problem could mean the split-up of our government and pre-elections if necessairy.