The "Financieel Economische Tijd" reports today that Air Hong Kong will cease its operations at BRU as from the 1st of July 2002. LD will re-direct their operations to the Far East only.

The good news is that mother company Cathay Pacific will take over some of the flights to BRU. As from July 1st, CX is planning to have 5 flights a week to BRU and may increase the amount of flights in the future.

The operations of Air Hong Kong at BRU were very successfull. They were the second largest cargo operator at BRU, behind Saudia.

Established02

Hey Established02,

Yep, I read it too this morning  

Air HongKong that operates now 7 flights a week to Brussels, will stop flying to Brussels (and their fleet of 3 B742's will be reduced to one B742F, they will use the aircraft within Asia).

Cathay Pacific will now come to Brussels, 5 times a week with the B742F, and probably if the results are good 7 times a week within some months.

Regards,
Sabena 690

here's an abstract from CX's press release:

Cathay Pacific Airways and Air Hong Kong today jointly announced plans to restructure operations in order to maximise the efficiency of their cargo services and enable Air Hong Kong to focus on serving the Asia region.

Air Hong Kong will from 1 July 2002 stop serving Brussels, Manchester and Dubai and continue to serve Osaka and Seoul.

Certain resources will be re-deployed between the two companies, but this will not result in any forced redundancies in Hong Kong. A number of Air Hong Kong staff in Hong Kong will be offered the choice of continuing to work with Cathay Pacific

I forgot to say one small thing:

Cathay Pacific wants to make of Brussels it's fourth cargo base in Europe (like (I can be wrong now) Amsterdam, London and Paris are already now).

Thanks for the article CX  

Regards,
Sabena 690

According to their press release, they(CX) are seeking government approval to start cargo service to Brussels and Mancester.

Also, the article stated that Air HK leased 3 B742 from CX, but they will return 2 of them, so that means Air HK will only have 1 aircraft in their fleet??!!?? Will Air HK be getting some smaller cargo planes for their regional network after returning the B742 to CX??

Hey CX,

Check my first post.

Two B742's return to CX, and the one B742 of AHK will fly within Asia, and not to Europe anymore.

Regards,
Sabena 690

Yes, I know, I was referring to CX whose seeking government's approval to start cargo service to the 2 European cities mentioned.

And after returing the 2 leased B742 to CX, AHK will only have 1 742 in their fleet, so I was was wondering/ask if AHK will get some smaller planes for their regional service.

Good news for Belgian spotters!! Is this the first time CX is operating into Brussels? Hopefully this will pave the way for passenger flights, but I doubt it!  

Hkg82.

On dec 6th 2001 a cx cgo operated on behalf of ld. Can e-mail pictures if some are interested. Quality is might not be up to spotters standards as photographer was ld staff and not familiar with taking pictures of a/c

That is good news.

And yes 744rules, could you email me some pictures ?

Thanks, SN-A330

Could you email the pictures? My email address is msp_82@yahoo.com

Thanks
Hkg82.

Yeah 744rules , you can also e-mail me the pictures. My current e-mail is stephane_schockaert@hotmail.com

Thanks
Cheers SAA-SAL

744rules:

Can you please send me the photos as well?? Thank you very much.

kmar001@student.mq.edu.au

Regards,
Ken

Was SNBA not in discution about code-sharing with CX?
Regards
Patrice

> Was SNBA not in discution about code-sharing with CX?

No idea, Patrice. What made you think so?

Established02

PS: Patrice "Lumumba" => remarkable user name! May his soul rest in peace.

Hi Established02 you are the only one who has made the link?
And yes let's his soul rest in paece.
And the information was on justplanes.com
Regards
Patrice

> Cathay Pacific wants to make of Brussels it's fourth cargo base in Europe
> like (I can be wrong now) Amsterdam, London and Paris are already now.

I believe one of the four CX's cargo hubs in Europe would be FRA and not AMS.

> LD staff

LD staff at BRU and MAN are mainly westerners, or a considerable amount of Chinese ex-pats as well?

Overhearing the ATC conversations, it sounds as if LD's pilots are always British!

> Cathay Pacific will now come to Brussels,
> 5 times a week with the B742F

Actually, does CX still have the B742F in their fleet? I would (wrongly?) think that CX only has the most modern aircraft in their fleet. Perhaps CX may consider to repaint two of the three LD 742's into CX colors.


744rules, euh... I would love to see these pictures as well. Please?


> Patrice "Lumumba"
> you are the only one who has made the link?

Well, I can imagine that not so many people on this forum are familiar with the name and the fate of the first democratically elected president of Zaire/Congo.

Obviously, most people here have chosen a user name that is aviation related. However, your user name touches a quite painful chapter in the history of Belgian-Congolese relationships. Is your fascination/interest for history & politics equally strong as your passion for aviation?

Established02

I dont think those LD 747's will operate in CX colours. They never have so far and I dont see why CX would fly them now when they have two better aircraft stored.

As for Air Hong Kong they will later operate the DHL flights around asia using the fleet of A300F's that CX are EXPECTED to buy.

Hi Erwin i lived in Zaire and Angola for 12 years.
And my passion is Aviation but i,m intrested in Africa and Politics.
Regards
Patrice