Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
Air Belgium has received its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from DGTA, the Belgian Civil Aviation Administration, on 13 March 2018. It is on course to start selling its tickets to Hong Kong on its web-site and its offices by 17 March 2018. Its inaugural scheduled flight from Brussels South Charleroi to Hong Kong is expected by Belgium observers to take off by 16 April 2018.
Detailed schedules of Air Belgium's four times weekly flights to Hong Kong will be released once the tickets are available for sale.
Air Belgium currently has a fleet of 2 Airbus A340-300 aircraft which it has received on 1 and 2 March 2018. Its first A340-300 aircraft registered OO-ABB, received on 1 March 2018, will operate the first flight from Brussels South Charleroi to Hong Kong. Its second A340-300 aircraft, registered OO-ABA, is received on 2 March 2018.
Air Belgium aims to receive its third and fourth A340-300 aircraft by May 2018 to start flights to Beijing Capital, Shanghai-Pudong and to Xi'an Xianyang and three other-unidentified China cities by end of 2018.
Destinations in Asia under consideration and feasibility study to open from 2019 onwards include Suvarnabhumi, Singapore and Tokyo.
Air Belgium will open a ticketing branch office in Hong Kong to market and sell its air tickets. It intends to employ 280 workers this year including for positions in its Hong Kong office.
Air Belgium is a hybrid budget airline following the successful model of Lion Air, meaning that though its fares will be lower than full-service airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines since it operates from the less-congested Brussels South Charleroi Airport, certain inflight services will be free-of-charge.
Founded by former TNT Airways CEO and businessman Niky Terzakis with a 45 per cent stake in 2016 to link Belgium with Asia, Air Belgium's other investors include Federal Holding and Investment Company and Walloon Investment Company with a 25 per cent stake each.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
Air Belgium has received its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from DGTA, the Belgian Civil Aviation Administration, on 13 March 2018. It is on course to start selling its tickets to Hong Kong on its web-site and its offices by 17 March 2018. Its inaugural scheduled flight from Brussels South Charleroi to Hong Kong is expected by Belgium observers to take off by 16 April 2018.
Detailed schedules of Air Belgium's four times weekly flights to Hong Kong will be released once the tickets are available for sale.
Air Belgium currently has a fleet of 2 Airbus A340-300 aircraft which it has received on 1 and 2 March 2018. Its first A340-300 aircraft registered OO-ABB, received on 1 March 2018, will operate the first flight from Brussels South Charleroi to Hong Kong. Its second A340-300 aircraft, registered OO-ABA, is received on 2 March 2018.
Air Belgium aims to receive its third and fourth A340-300 aircraft by May 2018 to start flights to Beijing Capital, Shanghai-Pudong and to Xi'an Xianyang and three other-unidentified China cities by end of 2018.
Destinations in Asia under consideration and feasibility study to open from 2019 onwards include Suvarnabhumi, Singapore and Tokyo.
Air Belgium will open a ticketing branch office in Hong Kong to market and sell its air tickets. It intends to employ 280 workers this year including for positions in its Hong Kong office.
Air Belgium is a hybrid budget airline following the successful model of Lion Air, meaning that though its fares will be lower than full-service airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines since it operates from the less-congested Brussels South Charleroi Airport, certain inflight services will be free-of-charge.
Founded by former TNT Airways CEO and businessman Niky Terzakis with a 45 per cent stake in 2016 to link Belgium with Asia, Air Belgium's other investors include Federal Holding and Investment Company and Walloon Investment Company with a 25 per cent stake each.
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