Named ‘Magritte’, the A320 is the second in a series of theme-liveried aircraft Brussels Airlines is planning to commemorate Belgian cultural icons.
Read moreBrussels Airlines to Add Nantes to Its Network
AirlinesAirportsDestinations February 19, 2016
Using 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets operated by a partner regional airline, Brussels Airlines will launch 12-times-weekly service between Brussels and the French port city of Nantes on June 14.
Read moreBrussels Airlines is strengthening its long-haul network, in a move that will see it add two more Airbus A330s to its fleet within the next 15 months.
Read moreAccra, which Brussels Airlines will serve four times a week from its Brussels Airport hub with its fleet of Airbus A330s, will become the carrier’s 16th destination in West Africa. However, the carrier will stop serving Kenya’s capital Nairobi at the end of October.
Read moreSubject to receiving the required governmental approvals, Star Alliance member ANA will introduce its new route from Narita International Airport to the Belgian capital in its 2015 winter schedule, which will begin in the fall.
Read moreThe livery makes the aircraft look like a 37-meter long black shark, based on Professor Calculus’ shark submarine from the Tintin adventure, ‘Red Rackham’s Treasure’.
Read moreInnovate to Resonate: Brussels Airlines Confronts Competition
AirlinesTravel Technology February 8, 2015
As one of two growing airlines actually based at Brussels Airport, Brussels Airlines must constantly evolve its network and its service offering carefully in order to compete sensibly with the sizable forces now ranged against it at its only hub.
Read moreLufthansa Group Restructuring On Course: CEO
Airlines January 30, 2014
Dr. Christoph Franz, Lufthansa Group’s executive board chairman and CEO, says the SCORE restructuring program the group’s supervisory board launched in 2012 “is on course, despite massive headwinds: We are very confident we will achieve our targets.”
Read moreBrussels Airlines began non-stop flights between Brussels and Washington, D.C. on June 18, with promising signs for the success of the new service. Flights in both directions on the first day were full and advance bookings for the five-days-a-week service are very strong, some even sold out.
Read moreBrussels Airlines Expects Sizable Market Demand for New Washington D.C. Service
AirlinesAirportsDestinations May 30, 2013
Brussels Airlines will begin non-stop service on June 18 from Brussels to Washington, D.C. its second U.S. destination in little more than a year, part of a concerted long-haul expansion strategy. The airline says it picked Washington D.C. for its second transatlantic route because of the large market demand for flights between the U.S. and European capitals.
Read moreStar Alliance partners Continental Airlines and Brussels Airlines are to codeshare on Continental’s transatlantic flights between New York and Brussels, as well as on selected flights operated by each carrier on both sides of the Atlantic.
Read moreBrussels Airlines expects to expand its already-extensive services to Africa, a move which would bring additional connecting possibilities for Star Alliance passengers at its growing hub at Brussels Airport.
Read moreBrussels Airlines’ induction into the Star Alliance on December 9, 2009 may not have brought the heft of recent inductee Continental Airlines, but it brings the alliance some exceedingly valuable assets.
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