SN Brussels Airlines

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SN Brussels Airlines
IATA SN	ICAO DAT	Callsign ESTAIL
Founded		circa 1967 (as DAT) 15 February 2002 (as SN Brussels Airlines)
Fleet size		38
Destinations		90
Headquarters		Zaventem (Brussels), Belgium
Key people		Neil Burrows (CEO); Etienne Davignon, chairman
Website: http://www.flysn.com/

SN Brussels Airlines (SNBA) is the trading name of the Belgian airline Delta Air Transport operating from Brussels Airport. The airline has merged with Virgin Express and is in the process of being phased out and replaced by Brussels Airlines.

SNBA is a full-service airline, connecting Brussels with the rest of Europe. It also flies to Africa, continuing Sabena's extensive network there.

1 History
2 Destinations and Codeshare Agreements
3 Fleet
4 Livery
5 Gallery
6 External links
7 References

[edit] History

The airline was founded in 2002, when a group of Belgian investors (companies, financial institutions and regional investment companies, as well as the Brussels and Walloon governments), set up SN Airholding, headed by Etienne Davignon. After the 2001 bankruptcy of Sabena, Belgium's flag carrier airline, Belgium was left without a national airline. In February 2002, SN Airholding took over the Belgian airline DAT, a subsidiary of Sabena that had survived the bankruptcy, and changed its trading name to SN Brussels Airlines.

ON 12 April 2005 SN Brussels took holding control of Virgin Express and on 31 March 2006 they announced thier fusion into one single company. On 7 November 2006 they announced at a press conference held at Brussels Airport that the new airline would be called Brussels Airlines.

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[edit] Destinations and Codeshare Agreements

For a full list of the airlines destination see SN Brussels destinations.

SNBA has signed a codeshare agreement with American Airlines allowing it to offer its passengers flights to the United States.
In July 2005, SNBA announced that they would offer flights to Toronto and Abu Dhabi in agreement with Abu Dhabi-based airline Etihad Airways.
In March 2006, SNBA announced that they would be code-sharing on the new Brussels-Beijing flight operated by Hainan Airlines which began in August 2006.

[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the SN Brussels Airlines fleet includes <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref> :

Type	Number	Seats
Avro RJ85	14	82
Avro RJ100	12	97
BAe 146-200	6	84
Airbus A319-100	3	132
Airbus A330-300	3	264

Total of 38 aircraft

As of April 2006, the average age of the SN Brussels Airlines fleet is 9.8 years.

[edit] Livery

The airline has had various color schemes before finally settling on a uniform scheme for the fleet.

The upper fuselage is white, while the belly and engines are painted lilac. An orange cheat line runs between the white and lilac fuselage part. The tail is showing the old Sabena "S". The website address is stated near the end of the fuselage.

There are differences in livery between the Avro planes and the Airbus planes, most notably the company name is written on the white part of the fuselage for the airbus planes, while its in the lilac part for the Avro.

[edit] Gallery

SN Brussels Airlines Avro RJ85

SN Brussels Airlines Avro RJ85 at Geneva Airport

[edit] External links

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[edit] References

Members of the Association of European Airlines

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