Yep, it looks like it's all over for SN - there will be a board meeting this evening which will call in the liquidators. Had BeCA not been so stupid, the company could have limped along until a restructured Benelux Airlines or similar been put together. As it is, they have lost most of their passengers - and the support of their 9,000 colleagues who thanks to them have lost their jobs.
No one is interested in acquiring SN - not even for BEF1. A long list of companies have tried (and failed) to make it viable - Air France (twice), KLM, British Airways, British Caledonian, SAS to name a few... but every year since 1960 it has lost money.
DAT as a low cost regional operator will probably survive; as long as BeCA does not attempt to hijack it and install senior SN crews at the expense of the DAT people.
Regrettably, there were a number of good people there that do not deserve this to happen to them - I hope that they find alternative employment soon and I wish them well in their future careers. To those BeCA imbeciles with their fundamentalist "I'm right, you're wrong and I'll kill the company to prove it" pigheadedness (rather like religious fundamentalists in fact) and Gestapo bully-boy tactics to try and prevent more realistic people from crossing their (wholly unofficial) lines and flying; may I say that I hope you live in interesting times.
