Well, they seem to have been beaten on their <acronym title="Charleroi - Brussels South (Gosselies) (CRL / EBCI), Belgium">CRL</acronym> route, as <acronym title="OLD: Sabena (Belgium), NEW: SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium)">SN</acronym> will operate a third daily frequency from <acronym title="Brusse...
Jump to postBrussels Airlines will use bigger planes on their <acronym title="Brussels - National (Zaventem) / Melsbroek (BRU / EBBR / EBMB), Belgium">BRU</acronym>-<acronym title="Budapest - Ferenc Liszt (Ferihegy) (BUD / LHBP), Hungary">BUD</acronym> route and as from next week on will be adding a 3rd daily f...
Jump to postI don't think any airline has that policy, but as pointed out, pilots can do it to ANY ILS, not just a catIII, so what is unquestionably the case is that at some airlines, pilots are stimulated more than at other airlines to use the auto land function at the end of a very long flight... I have no st...
Jump to postYou might get your ticket refunded allright, but that doesnt give you a seat on another carrier's flight, does it? If you are to book tickets for let's say next summer and you have a choice between <acronym title="Malev (Hungary)">MA</acronym> and another carrier, why take the risk? If things go bad...
Jump to postOf course the veto power of the UK, just as every other EU country, is not cancelled and annulled (the EU is not the honours forfeiture committee, lol), but one has to admit that clearly not a whole lot was blocked by the veto of December, was there? Opting out is something different than vetoing it...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bristolflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">bristolflyer</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Seems to me that pretty much eve...
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Jump to postIts not so much the age of the building which is a problem but the size, IMHO. Having visited the premises once, I was surprised by how little it is: Any mediocre royal palace in Europe is way larger. In fact, other than downing street in London, I can't think of any leader's residence which is so d...
Jump to postFinally official now; Tom Enders becomes CEO of EADS Fabrice Brégier will succeed Tom Enders and become CEO of Airbus as from June 2012. Other remarkable appointment is that of Jean-Claude Trichet (former President of the European Central Bank) as boardmember of EADS. More on: <a href="http://www.ea...
Jump to postA question that I think is far more interesting than who'll be the NEXT president, is who's a FUTURE president?
Anybody here who has a good idea who'll be running the NEXT campaign?
Anybody on the radar who you see as a likely president in the next decade?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pe%40rson" class="quote" target="_blank">Pe@rson</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>We can assume that they achieved a ...
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Jump to postWell, it's not like much has changed, has it? All they did was drop the 2 red squares from their engines as well as remove the tiny little tiles from behind the SWISS brandname so they could finally supersize it. While I happily agree them supersizing their very short name isn't exactly the best of ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>if Greece defaults it will, one expects, rever...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i> the 'double hit' of a lower face value plus w...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/shamrock604" class="quote" target="_blank">shamrock604</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>formerly obscure subjects as credi...
Jump to post<i>This fear is especially a problem when we are facing a Liquidity Trap as we are now. A liquidity trap is where the central bank has already lowered it's rates basically to zero but has not been able to induce growth. In a situation where rates are already zero but are not able to stimulate the ec...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/eaa3" class="quote" target="_blank">eaa3</a> (<a href="#32" class="quote">Reply 32</a>):<br/><i>FIat money It is no different from monopoly mone...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/eaa3" class="quote" target="_blank">eaa3</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>The ECB buying government bonds does not equate ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/eaa3" class="quote" target="_blank">eaa3</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>This is clearly not true, NAV20. The ECB can exp...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/David+L" class="quote" target="_blank">David L</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>You've moved the goalposts again</i></font...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/David+L" class="quote" target="_blank">David L</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>there's no inconsistency between the UK al...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/David+L" class="quote" target="_blank">David L</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>There might be a bit of that, too, and it ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/David+L" class="quote" target="_blank">David L</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>The current situation is a middle ground s...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Maverick623" class="quote" target="_blank">Maverick623</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Not since 1775 </i></font></td></tr>...
Jump to postIn a nutshell: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Airstud" class="quote" target="_blank">Airstud</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>a) What does "Holyrood" refer...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TCASAlert" class="quote" target="_blank">TCASAlert</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>Surely it is either part of the U...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingalex" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingalex</a> (<a href="#118" class="quote">Reply 118</a>):<br/><i>That looks quite similar to <acron...
Jump to postQuestion is: will the EU allow <acronym title="Niagara Falls - International (IAG / KIAG), USA - New York">IAG</acronym> to own both <acronym title="Iberia (Spain)">IB</acronym> as well as <acronym title="TAP Air Portugal">TP</acronym>? Given both are from the same peninsula and both have a focus on...
Jump to postSir, You are in a state of denial, it seems: <acronym title="Montreal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (Dorval) (YUL / CYUL), Canada - Quebec">YUL</acronym> has been announced as future destination internally last month, and we have 3 more A330s coming within 18 months: there you have both the...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyyul" class="quote" target="_blank">flyyul</a> (<a href="#98" class="quote">Reply 98</a>):<br/><i>Why the heck would <acronym title="OLD: Sabe...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SR4ever" class="quote" target="_blank">SR4ever</a> (<a href="#93" class="quote">Reply 93</a>):<br/><i>I can't imagine <acronym title="OLD: Cross...
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Jump to postIndeed, you are overestimating the importance of French at <acronym title="OLD: Crossair (Switzerland), NEW: Swiss International Airlines (Switzerland)">LX</acronym>. I have had numerous flights on them where nobody was able to speak French fluently and announcements had to come from a pre-recorded ...
Jump to postTo pretend SWISS is a French speaking airline is quite a stretch. Other than at Geneva, SWISS has as much French flavour as Lufthansa itself really and this lack of 'Frenchness' is IMHO also one of the reasons for Brussels Airlines taking over the SWISS flights to NSI and DLA as from next season. Do...
Jump to postActually <acronym title="OLD: Sabena (Belgium), NEW: SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium)">SN</acronym>'s CEO Is on record for having said to <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>'s CEO that one day <acronym title="OLD: Sabena (Belgium), NEW: SN Brussels Airlines (Belgium)">SN</acronym> Is going to ser...
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Jump to postThe Italian government raised €9bn in short-term debt at half its previous interest rate, today. The interest on the six-month bills was 3.25%, down from 6.50% at the last similar auction in November. Also on Wednesday, Italy raised a further 1.7bn euros in two-year debt at an interest rate of 4.85%...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/panamair" class="quote" target="_blank">panamair</a> (<a href="#24" class="quote">Reply 24</a>):<br/><i>FYI, Delta's flatbed J seats on the 763E...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/panamair" class="quote" target="_blank">panamair</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Quoting slz396 (Reply 5): Brussels airline...
Jump to postSomething, Brussels airlines are upgrading their cabins to the very same standards as SWISS, thus offering full lie flat business class seats: they will by far offer the best product on the route! Besides, as some already noticed, this route is aimed at offering a link between New York and their man...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#213" class="quote">Reply 213</a>):<br/><i>Firstly, those bonds were only 3-month and 6...
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Jump to postMeanwhile, for a reality check, this is what Mario Draghi, the most powerful man in Europe right now, had to say to the EU Parliament recently on all the doomsday scenario's one can read in the Anglo-saxon press, notably in articles like the one above... "I have no doubts whatsoever about the streng...
Jump to postAs a general rule, Air Asia have a check-in fee if you're not using the online/mobile check in option on their website. However, this seems not to be applicable to all flights; does anybody know why it is not applicable on Thai Air Asia flights for instance? So am I right in assuming that depending ...
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