Earlier today I wrote about how Air Belgium will soon be discontinuing flights to Hong Kong, per Belgian media reports. Air Belgium has now issued a press release about this, so let's look at what they have to say. Air Belgium has announced that they will "temporarily pause" flights from Charleroi to Hong Kong during…
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Shocker. Next, the weather: Hurricane Florence one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water
It's been a couple years since you've reviewed CX J. Maybe they can rebook you to Cathay Pacific business class on their A350.
EU261 /2004 applies only if you have a confirmed ticket on a specific flight. At this point you don´t have a ticket - it´s and open booking. The best you can expect is a refund.
That statement.....
Obviously there's major drama going on between those running the airline and those injecting cash into the airline. Someone is very disappointed there...
Now to your EU261 Ben....
It gets interesting since they are stopping the route. Your ticket is rather open and the airline is withdrawing from the route. You fall in that Air Berlin Situation 'somehow'.
You will be probably asked when you intend to fly... then you'll either be rebooked on probably CX or you get your money back. Possibly full fare back since they probably don't want drama.
Customers satisfaction and the convenience has been validated by massive positive feedback and our strategy to operate from Charleroi is to remain. You are Massive Lucky - they obviously thought your feedback was the best.
It is my guess that their partners are China tour groups who have failed to find the passengers for the airline . It is surprising that the discontinuing date is 1st Oct , because 1st to 7th Oct is China ''golden week'' when many take a holiday . 1st is a public holiday . It is also my guess they will look for new partners for Chinese New Year holidays in Feb 2019 when many go overseas .
I guess this might be a good place to ask this question:
I was trying to identify all the direct flights from Europe* to South-East Asia operated by low-cost carriers. So far I've only got Scoot Airlines' ATH - SIN and TXL - SIN, Norwegian's LGW - SIN (which ALSO seems to be on its way out), and... that's about it.
Is there anything else out there? Is low-cost long haul between these two regions just not viable?
* Europe = everything between Istanbul and the Northern Atlantic.
@neaorin
Norwegian operates to Bangkok from Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, was among the first long haul routes they opened.