[PICS] Brussels Airlines Tomorrowland flights to and from Munich

[sn26567]

As every year, Brussels Airlines organises a number of flights to bring festival§goers to Tomorrowland (in Boom, not far from Brussels).

This year I had the opportunity to participate in the A330-300 flights to and from Munich.

Flight: Brussels Airlines SN1941
Date : 21 Jul 2016
Aircraft: Airbus A330-300 OO-SFN with Tomorrowland decals
From-To: Brussels - Munich (BRU-MUC)
Seat: 5A
Scheduled/Effective Time of Departure: 14:30/14:55 (GMT+2)
Scheduled/Effective Time of Arrival: 15:50/16:07 (GMT+2)
Scheduled/Effective Duration of the flight: 1 hr 20 min/1 hr 12 min

Departure slightly delayed for loading meals. The captain was Thibaut Demoulin and the purser Wim De Ryke. Most of the flight at FL350.

From gate A36, thus by bus to the plane

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OO-SFN 'A330-300) waiting behind the satellite

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Tomorrowland decals

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Tomorrowland decals

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Tomorrowland decals

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Tomorrowland decals

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Tomorrowland decorations

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Ready for the festival-goers

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Above Brussels Airport after take-off from 25R

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At gate A34 in Munichafter landing on 26R

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Flight: Brussels Airlines SN1942
Date : 21 Jul 2016
Aircraft: Airbus A330-300 OO-SFN with Tomorrowland decals
From-To: Munich-Brussels (MUC-BRU)
Seat: 5A
Scheduled/Effective Time of Departure: 17:20/17:45 (GMT+2)
Scheduled/Effective Time of Arrival: 18:40/19:10 (GMT+2)
Scheduled/Effective Duration of the flight: 1 hr 20 min/1 hr 25 min

Departure announced at Gate A34

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Hungarians with the Tomorrowland hostesses

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Large multinational crowd waiting to embark

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... with the Australians first

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Captain Demoulin en his co-pilot preparing the flight

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First passengers on board

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Everybody ready

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Turning to 26R for take-off

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Disco mood at FL340

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Disembarking after landing on 25R

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Tomorrowland welcome desk in arrivals hall

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Final step: way to the shuttle going to Tomorrowland

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[brusselsairlinesfan]

Thanks for this nice report!
Did they fly empty on the BRU-MUC leg or was that flight opened for regular bookings?

[Airbus330lover]

2 years ago empty for BRU-FRA. I mean the same for this one. No regular passengers on BRU-MUC

[brusselsairlinesfan]

2 years ago empty for BRU-FRA. I mean the same for this one. No regular passengers on BRU-MUC

Thanks for your information!

[brusselsairlinesfan]

2 years ago empty for BRU-FRA. I mean the same for this one. No regular passengers on BRU-MUC

Thanks for your information!

Do they make money with these flights?

[sean1982]

2 years ago empty for BRU-FRA. I mean the same for this one. No regular passengers on BRU-MUC

Thanks for your information!

Do they make money with these flights?

Not necessarily on the operation as I believe SN is a sponsor of Tomorrowland, but the PR is a nice extra

[sn26567]

2 years ago empty for BRU-FRA. I mean the same for this one. No regular passengers on BRU-MUC

Not exactly. Two years ago on BRU-FRA there was a small group of paying Luchtzak avgeeks, in addition to some journalists. The flight was not open to the general public.

This year on BRU-MUC there were only journalists, plus three persons who did not come back on the return flight.

[sn26567]

I also made some short videos about the mood on board. Here is one of them:

[MSS658]

Hi André

Thanks for the nice insight of this flight!
As you know I was originally booked on that flight but got rebooked!
Looked like a pretty awesome party in the air

Thanks for sharing
Marc