Talk:Sabena

Replaced?
Sabena wasn't replaced by SN, Sabena went out of business and another company changed it's name to SN.... There is a difference to bankrupcty and change of names imho.

Subsidies
Needs to mention the Belgium government's subsidies to Sabena, without which Sabena would have been insolvent long before the fact. --Pelladon 17:49, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Copyright photo removed
The photo of a Sabena A340 has been taken from www.airliners.net without the photographers permission, so I have removed it - Adrian Pingstone 22:05, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Spelling
"SABENA", "Sabena", or "sabena"? -- Mikeblas 03:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a real acronymn, so it should be SABENA in American speak. UK newspaper style, on the other hand, is to spell pronounceable acronymns as a word, with just an initial cap letter - e.g., Nato rather than NATO. "sabena" is just plain wrong. This article should be consistent, of course. - DavidWBrooks 14:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry to raise an old issue - but the article is still inconsistent in how the airline is spelled. The reality is that at different periods the company used all upper case and all lower case letters. Yes, it is an acronym, but the article uses upper and lower case. I have changed the spelling throughout the article to reflect its title. Other editors are free to change it back if they can provide a good reason to do so. Verne Equinox (talk) 15:45, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Acronym
I was once told that Sabena stands for 'Such a bad experience, never again'. After travelling with them, I didn't find it that bad, Brussels Airport on the other hand sucks.

Flyme 20:35, 2 April 2006 (BST)

Economy
SABENA's economy obviously was a real mess. If we are to believe the rumours, the company only made a profit once during its existance. It would be very interesting if someone could add some information about this. What were the reasons behind this economical disaster? J-C V 16:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Why Sabena failed?
The section seems very subjective without any supporting references. Any references would be very useful. Otherwise, I would suggest either deleting the section or condensing the section. Gittinsj 01:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)gittinsj

I Agree on this point. At the moment there is a trail (in Switserland) about the bankrupcy of Swissair and their involvement in the bankrupcy of Sabena. Maybe add that, or just drop this section.

www.sabena.com
Does it make sens to point to a website which does not exist? I would remove this old homepage of the company. --Jangli (talk) 17:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

What the acronym stands for
Société anonyme is a standard commercial term for a limited liability company. Autonyme is an obscure linguistic or rhetorical term meaning self-referential. See Société anonyme and Autonymie. There is a typo on various web sites that corrupts the spelling-out of SABENA from Société anonyme to Société autonyme. Please do not copy this error into Wikipedia. -- Justinbb (talk) 13:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

.....about incident in yugoslavia
first mig jet in yugoslavian airforce was mig-21 (september 1962)

during the 50-is yugoslavia use american shooting stars, thunderjets and sabres.

if mig-15 indeed open fire on c-47, it was hungarian or soviet plane and c-47 probably violated hungarian air space  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.1.185.237 (talk) 17:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Prewar Congo service
I am surprised to read the SABENA service ran on alternate weeks to an Air Afrique service : according to this same en.wikipedia, Air Afrique was only created in 1960. Who can explain/elaborate? Jan olieslagers (talk) 11:03, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Eloise
In Kay Thompson’s 1957 book “Eloise in Paris”, 6 year old Eloise states “Sabena is the only airline that will allow you to travel with a turtle”. Eloise (books) are still in print and widely popular, so this reference may be worth putting in the article. For many, it may be the only reason they would know Sabena existed. Also, in this book, the Sabena flight from New York to Paris lands in Brussels, and a helicopter is then taken to Paris. This is odd, but the writer and illustrator had a sharp eye for detail, and this was very likely the case in 1957. Is this accurate, that Sabena did not go directly from New York to Paris? If so, some research into why would improve the article.2A00:23C7:E287:1900:35D2:678B:5E02:62BF (talk) 12:14, 31 October 2021 (UTC)