SN Brussels Airlines (SNBA) was the

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, which mainly operated from

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. SNBA was the trading name of the Belgian airline Delta Air Transport. 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

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into

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which started operations on 25 March 2007. The airline had its head office in Airport Building 117 in Brussels Airport, Zaventem, near

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History

The airline was founded in 2002, when a group of Belgian investors (companies, financial institutions and regional investment companies, as well as the

and Walloon governments) set up SN Airholding, headed by

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. After the 2001 collapse of Sabena, Belgium's then

airline, Belgium was left without a national airline for a few months. In February 2002, SN Airholding took over the Belgian airline DAT, a subsidiary of Sabena, and changed its trading name to SN Brussels Airlines. In 2002, a strategic reorganization started, led by the former CEO Peter Davies. On 12 April 2005 SN Brussels took holding control of

and on 31 March 2006 they announced their merger. On 7 November 2006 they announced at a press conference held at

that the new airline would be called

Destinations

Fleet

BAE Systems Avro 146-RJ85 - SN Brussels Airlines - OO-DJQ - LEMD

Before merging, SN Brussels Airlines operated the following aircraft:

Codeshare agreements

SN Brussels Airlines had

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with the following airlines: *

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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

livery were replaced with the

livery.

References

External links

Quand la Belgique redécolle : L'express Magazine FrançaisSN Brussels Airlines websiteCorporate website SN Brussels AirlinesVideos of Brussels AirlinesSN Brussels Airlines Fleet AgeSN Brussels Airlines fleetSN Brussels Airlines aircraft
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