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Home » Brussels Airlines » Sabena Lives on in Ft. Lauderdale…
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Sabena Lives on in Ft. Lauderdale…

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 18, 2018November 14, 2023 2 Comments

How many of you remember Sabena, the defunct flag carrier of Belgium? Much to my surprise, Sabena lives on in Ft. Lauderdale.

Societé Anonyme Belge d’Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne or Sabena had a worldwide route network connecting Belgium and its African colonies from 1923 to 2001. Its U.S. route network at one point included Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, and New York. The company went under in 2001 due to prolonged labor strikes (are you listening Air France?) and a lack of financial infusion from 49.5% stakeholder Swissair (which also went under).

While waiting for my flight to Houston yesterday (which I ended up not taking due to a four hour delay, but that’s another story), I noticed the departure board also included codeshare flights.

United flights also showed Lufthansa flight numbers..and Sabena flight numbers.

a screen with a schedule on it

a screen with numbers and letters

What I find difficult to understand is that these monitors and the flight status display system itself seem far newer than the demise of Sabena in 2001.

How does this happen? Who loaded that image in?

I looked up these codeshares and indeed they are for Brussels Airlines, the successor to Sabena.

a screenshot of a flight schedule

CONCLUSION

I never flew Sabena, but its ghost lives on in FLL. I have flown Brussels Airlines, though, and recommend it.

> Read More: Brussels Airlines A330 Business Class Review (Brussels to New York JFK)

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

2 Comments

  1. Juraj Reply
    May 18, 2018 at 12:02 pm

    Unless the image assets got migrated “as is” from any previous system and nobody bothered to update them, I can also see this being a human error – someone saw SN a chose a wrong file. This likely would’ve been caught faster at JFK or CLT. Funny, though.

  2. Flo Reply
    May 18, 2018 at 12:52 pm

    Same thing happens with Swissair instead of Swiss. Or people referring to USAir instead of US Airways (back then)

    Not sure what is so difficult about it. It’s not like you would see the Continental logo on any monitors in Europe.

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