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In Ostend one can receive British TV and, with water that comes out of the sand dunes full of salt and sand etc., one evening it came on TV that UK were going to spend billions getting their water up to EU standards ... What frigging standards? 
As I posted regarding police checkpoints and immigration raids Flanders is so corrupt some might not believe it, once the EU lifted the ban on UK mad cows France still blockaded them, France had mad cows all along but only the British were stupid enough to admit to it much alike the British were stupid enough to upgrade their water unnecessarily.
Of course the Belgians are getting away with flouting the rules, where have you been hiding?
As I posted regarding police checkpoints and immigration raids Flanders is so corrupt some might not believe it, once the EU lifted the ban on UK mad cows France still blockaded them, France had mad cows all along but only the British were stupid enough to admit to it much alike the British were stupid enough to upgrade their water unnecessarily.
Of course the Belgians are getting away with flouting the rules, where have you been hiding?
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You do realise that EVERY single post you make on Pprune are always totally negative! If you don't realise that it obviously shows what sort of person you are, but the majority of us have a good idea of that, totally RIGHTEOUS might sum it up.
You do realise that EVERY single post you make on Pprune are always totally negative! If you don't realise that it obviously shows what sort of person you are, but the majority of us have a good idea of that, totally RIGHTEOUS might sum it up.
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The bathing water data for every EU country is online. With so many independent bodies such as surfers against sewage it would quite impossible for countrywide fraudulent data to be sustained. The UK is still second bottom, after Ireland.
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You do realise that EVERY single post you make on Pprune are always totally negative!
Harry 'fritte' on your shoulder Wayfarers
You do realise that EVERY single post you make on Pprune are always totally negative!
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With all due respect it's about the catchment area of OST rather than just about the airport and the city of Ostend itself, and that catchment area includes Bruges and, as others have mentioned, the Flanders coast and if one should dare to pour scorn, be negative, regarding some of these weird and wonderful route ideas that appear on Airlines, Airports & Routes it seems the spotter fraternity are waiting in the wings ready to attack.
Belgian as a whole has five functioning airports serving four cities, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Ostend and of these Liege and Ostend only have leisure routes, that is Belgians going on holiday rather than foreign tourists coming to Belgium. Antwerp has one business route to LCY, BMIr tried a business/leisure route to MAN and failed, other than that ANR is also a leisure route airport whilst Brussels provides for much of the country with Charleroi being the LoCo airport for Brussels, despite the country of Belgium stretching much farther south there are no functioning airports south of Charleroi, basically Belgium is a country that not that many tourists want to travel to when compared to other European countries.
So there are two functioning airports in Flanders serving the Flanders coast, OST that Ryanair tried to serve and failed and ANR that BMIr tried to serve and failed, what would BMIr's aircraft type have been, a 50 seater Embraer pocket rocket?
So suggestions that a route from northern UK to Flanders would be viable with a 70/80 seater aircraft, well history suggests otherwise!
Belgian as a whole has five functioning airports serving four cities, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Ostend and of these Liege and Ostend only have leisure routes, that is Belgians going on holiday rather than foreign tourists coming to Belgium. Antwerp has one business route to LCY, BMIr tried a business/leisure route to MAN and failed, other than that ANR is also a leisure route airport whilst Brussels provides for much of the country with Charleroi being the LoCo airport for Brussels, despite the country of Belgium stretching much farther south there are no functioning airports south of Charleroi, basically Belgium is a country that not that many tourists want to travel to when compared to other European countries.
So there are two functioning airports in Flanders serving the Flanders coast, OST that Ryanair tried to serve and failed and ANR that BMIr tried to serve and failed, what would BMIr's aircraft type have been, a 50 seater Embraer pocket rocket?
So suggestions that a route from northern UK to Flanders would be viable with a 70/80 seater aircraft, well history suggests otherwise!
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Well bearing in mind that they speak Dutch in Flanders it's no surprise that they get a lot of visitors from The Netherlands.
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I doubt if it will be a route linking the north. More likely another attempt to link OST with one of the London airports. It wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't an ATR operator from London East!
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I remember being the only passenger in an Air Kent PA-31 on a BRU-MSE schedule in 1979. And I was on an ID90! Yep, it failed pretty quickly too.
Then there was the Venture Airways HS748 all Business Class Coventry-Paris CDG v.v. flight I made in 1984. Very nice, but doomed.
Then there was the Venture Airways HS748 all Business Class Coventry-Paris CDG v.v. flight I made in 1984. Very nice, but doomed.
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Ostend airport- rising passenger numbers
Ostend airport launched its new website earlier this month.
Looking more modern than before.
The airport is actually doing quite well with 21 destinations on offer.
Passengernumbers are rising year after year and the 500K mark might be reached within 2-3 years. The summer months july-august alone showed already an increase of 27,7 %.
Also this week plans were announced for a brandnew 'Business terminal' ,an investment of 1,85 M euro. This year the main passenger terminal also underwent a major upgrade inside and the opening of a 'brasserie' and extra shopping possibilities airside.
Same is valid for Antwerp airport btw.
So,all in all the regional airports in Belgium are doing quite well and are gaining in popularity year after year.
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Looking more modern than before.
The airport is actually doing quite well with 21 destinations on offer.
Passengernumbers are rising year after year and the 500K mark might be reached within 2-3 years. The summer months july-august alone showed already an increase of 27,7 %.
Also this week plans were announced for a brandnew 'Business terminal' ,an investment of 1,85 M euro. This year the main passenger terminal also underwent a major upgrade inside and the opening of a 'brasserie' and extra shopping possibilities airside.
Same is valid for Antwerp airport btw.
So,all in all the regional airports in Belgium are doing quite well and are gaining in popularity year after year.
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And I still crave for the bacon & scrambled egg baguettes of the BELAIR upstairs, they were handsome, well they were handsome 20 years ago
And I note that the Icarus Restaurant, the former Luftwaffe Officers Mess built by British POW's, has changed identity, I guess Bart must have sold it!
And I note that the Icarus Restaurant, the former Luftwaffe Officers Mess built by British POW's, has changed identity, I guess Bart must have sold it!
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New destinations for Ostend Airport
TuiFly will launch 4 new routes from Ostend airport next summer:
OST-Djerba
OST-Corfu
OST-Sjarm-El Shaikh
OST-Hurghada.
This means some 25 PAX destinations will be reachable directly through this airport.
Unfortunately still no routing announcement to the UK,although there are still rumours this will come.
In general regional airports in Belgium are growing, on top of the growth of Brussels airport. In the same announcement as above,also the opening by TuiFlyof a route from Antwerp to Florence (2X/week) was confirmed.Soon also the new route to Innsbruck will start from ANR aswell as the route to Sion by Powdair. and next week VLM will take over the London City route from Cityjet.
OST-Djerba
OST-Corfu
OST-Sjarm-El Shaikh
OST-Hurghada.
This means some 25 PAX destinations will be reachable directly through this airport.
Unfortunately still no routing announcement to the UK,although there are still rumours this will come.
In general regional airports in Belgium are growing, on top of the growth of Brussels airport. In the same announcement as above,also the opening by TuiFlyof a route from Antwerp to Florence (2X/week) was confirmed.Soon also the new route to Innsbruck will start from ANR aswell as the route to Sion by Powdair. and next week VLM will take over the London City route from Cityjet.
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I was flown to Ostend at the tender age of ten on a Laker BAC 111-300 from and to Manchester many moons ago by parents and sibling sister
Stayed in Blankenberge great holiday was had in the dunes kite flying and hot chocolate drinking less so (at the time couldn’t appreciate the importance) at Ypre and Waterloo through
Arrowsmith offered this in the inclusive tour programme back then
UK visiters these days arrive in the area by car and coach however from the northwest in particular because of the time it takes by ground transport there may be a market for occasional packages from the likes of Jet2 selling similar Beach Bruge Brussels Waterloo and Ypre combinations
Harry- Manchester-to/from Antwerp was a business route operated by various airlines over thirty years catering for dimond jewellery and leather traders in both cities by their shared Jewish diaspora
It may return at some point with fares well above basement levels although many now fly to Amsterdam and get the Thalys down to Antwerp in just the over an hour and these high speed trains of France Belgium and the Netherlands have changed the dynamics of the region
Although there are four airports in Belgium neighbouring Amsterdam Rotterdam Charles De Gaulle Düsseldorf Lille Luxembourg and Frankfurt all take away some not insignificant traffic
Stayed in Blankenberge great holiday was had in the dunes kite flying and hot chocolate drinking less so (at the time couldn’t appreciate the importance) at Ypre and Waterloo through
Arrowsmith offered this in the inclusive tour programme back then
UK visiters these days arrive in the area by car and coach however from the northwest in particular because of the time it takes by ground transport there may be a market for occasional packages from the likes of Jet2 selling similar Beach Bruge Brussels Waterloo and Ypre combinations
Harry- Manchester-to/from Antwerp was a business route operated by various airlines over thirty years catering for dimond jewellery and leather traders in both cities by their shared Jewish diaspora
It may return at some point with fares well above basement levels although many now fly to Amsterdam and get the Thalys down to Antwerp in just the over an hour and these high speed trains of France Belgium and the Netherlands have changed the dynamics of the region
Although there are four airports in Belgium neighbouring Amsterdam Rotterdam Charles De Gaulle Düsseldorf Lille Luxembourg and Frankfurt all take away some not insignificant traffic