SN Brussels Airlines

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Brussels Airlines

IATA SN	ICAO DAT	Callsign ESTAIL
Founded		1967
Hubs		Brussels Airport
Frequent flyer program		Privilege
Member lounge		Business Centre
Fleet size		38
Destinations		90
Parent company		SN Airholding
Headquarters		Zaventem (Brussels), Belgium
Key people		Neil Burrows (CEO); Etienne Davignon, chairman
Website: http://www.flysn.com/

SN Brussels Airlines (SNBA) was the trading name of the Belgian airline Delta Air Transport operating from Brussels Airport. SNBA was a full-service airline, connecting Brussels with the rest of Europe. It also flew to Africa, continuing Sabena's extensive network there. The airline merged with Virgin Express into Brussels Airlines which started operations on 25 March 2007 ^[1]

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 their fusion. On 7 November 2006 they announced at a press conference held at Brussels Airport that the new airline would be called Brussels Airlines.

SN Brussels Airlines Avro RJ85

[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 included ^[2] :

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 was 9.8 years.

[edit] Livery

The airline had various color schemes before finally settling on a uniform scheme for the fleet. The upper fuselage is white, while the belly and engines were painted lilac. An orange cheat line runs between the white and lilac parts of the fuselage. The tail shows the old Sabena "S". The website address is 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, but on the lilac part on the Avro.

Both this livery and the Virgin Express livery are being replaced with the Brussels Airlines livery.