'Belgian Corporation for the Exploitation of Aerial Navigation'), better known by the acronym Sabena or SABENA, was the national airline and flag carrier of Belgium from 1923 to 2001, with its base at Brussels Airport.

2020年4月17日 · There have been few airline collapses as big as Sabena, Belgium's national carrier. The airline went bankrupt in 2001. So why did it fail, and what could they have done differently? Let us explore.

Sabena Flight 548 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Idlewild Airport in New York City to Brussels Airport in Belgium. On 15 February 1961, the Boeing 707-329 operating the flight crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 …

2023年5月22日 · Today we will look at the former Belgian national flag carrier Societé anonyme belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation aérienne (Sabena) and see how the airline came to be.

2023年5月23日 · Over 100 years since its foundation and 21 years after the company ceased its operations, Belgian airline Sabena's bankruptcy remains the largest in Belgian history. Since the start of its liquidation, Belgian courts have recovered €1.1 billion in assets and other investments from the defunct company, of which some €800 million have been ...

Belgium's national airline Sabena has become the first European flag carrier to go bankrupt. Bankruptcy was filed for and approved on November 07th 2001. It is the first failure of a European flag carrier and also Belgium's biggest corporate failure.

SABENA was mainland Europe's first airline to operate a jet across the Atlantic. Six Caravelle jetliners were introduced on all medium-haul routes in Europe from February 1961, being flown on most routes alongside the Convair 440s, until the early 1970s.

SABENA - Societe Autonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne - began on 23 May 1923 as the Belgian national carrier. It took over from Belgium's previous airline, SNETA (Syndicat Aeriens pour l'Etude des Transports Aeriens) which …

SABENA was mainland Europe's first airline to operate a jet across the Atlantic (BOAC - now British Airways - had been flying transatlantic services before 1960, using the De Havilland Comet 4 jet.)

2023年5月23日 · Created by the Belgian State and the Belgian Congo in 1923, Sabena's history was marked by aviation successes, including flying to Africa and the US, but it was also plagued by financial problems, only being kept afloat by regular government injections of francs.