DHL sagt nein zu Belgischen Forderungen...

[Mamluk]

BRUSSELS, Global courier DHL's [DHL.UL] stand-off with Belgium again came to a head on Tuesday when it rejected a government request to curb the use of noisy planes as part of its plans to expand at Brussels airport.

 

DHL's plans to increase flights at Brussels' Zaventem airport hit a roadblock this month when squabbling national and regional governments closed ranks to demand that the company reduce the use of noisy intercontinental planes.

 

But DHL insisted on Tuesday it needed to boost the number of intercontinental flights using the disputed MD-11 plane if it wanted to stick to its plans to transform Zaventem airport into an intercontinental hub.

 

"An intercontinental hub needs intercontinental flights. We can organise ourselves until 2011 with 4 intercontinental flight movements," Roland Steisel, the director of legal and regulatory affairs at DHL, told VRT radio.

 

"But, as from 2011 -- the start of the new hub -- we would need at least 16 movements using the MD-11. Our businessplan is based on that," he added.

 

Belgium earlier wrote to DHL asking it to replace the MD-11 plane -- a derivative of the three-engined DC-10 airliner and the last long-range widebodied aircraft to be made by McDonnell Douglas -- with less noisy aircraft as soon as possible.

 

The government asked DHL to start using what it says are newer, quieter planes such as Boeing's (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) B777 from 2011 to operate additional intercontinental flights.

 

But Steisel said the MD-11 was currently the most efficient airplane destined for intercontinental flights in terms of noise and that there was currently no alternative.

 

DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post (DPWGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) , has made veiled threats to leave the country and take thousands of jobs with it if the global courier does not get its way.

 

"If setting up an intercontinental hub is not possible in Brussels, then, in 2008, we have to set it up elsewhere. At that time the current hub would have to be transformed into a regional hub," Steisel said.

 

 

Heisst die Chancen für Leipzig steigen wieder !!!

[MistralB]

Brüssel ist aus dem Rennen. Die Entscheidung wird wohl noch diese Woche zwischen Vatry (F) oder Leipzig fallen.

 

http://www.faz.net/s/RubC8BA5576CDEE4A05AF...n~Scontent.html

[Gast]

Man soll sich ja nie zu früh freuen, aber wer schon mal in Vatry war weiss das es da ausser Champagner rund rum nichts gibt. Das ist zwar ein Grund hinzufahren, die Negociants machen gute Preise, aber fürs Geschäft kann ich mir das einfach nicht vorstellen, die Anbindung ist zu schlecht.

 

LEJ ist intermodal, es hat ein Autobahnkreuz, Bahnanschluss und die Nähe zu mehreren Großstädten, außerdem ist es viel näher am demographischen Mittel Europas und dichter an den zukünftigen Märkten im Osten.

 

Also, Daumen drücken damits in den kolonien weiter aufwärts geht.