BRU winter 2011/2012: latest news, routes, airlines

[tolipanebas]

SN will also introduce schedule changes on LHR, thus offering better connectivity by re-arranging flights in the morning AND adding a new evening flight: all flights to be operated by A319.

[sn26567]

brussels airlines Selected African Market Changes in Winter 2011

As per 21SEP11 GDS timetable display, brussels airlines is adjusting service to selected African Destinations in Winter 2011/12 season, effective 30OCT11.

Affected destinations includes: Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Cotonou, Lome, Monrovia and Ouagadougou:

Abidjan Increase from 3 to 4 weekly
Monrovia Service maintains 3 weekly with new operational pattern
2 weekly Brussels – Monrovia – Abidjan – Brussels (SN245; Reduce from 3 to 2 weekly)
1 weekly Brussels – Abidjan – Monrovia – Brussels (SN247; New routing)
1 weekly Brussels – Abidjan – Lome – Brussels (SN251)

Accra Reduce from 4 to 3 weekly
Bamako Service Remains 2 weekly
1 weekly Brussels – Accra – Lome – Brussels (SN277; Replace existing 2 weekly service in opposite direction)
2 weekly Brussels – Bamako – Accra (SN273/274)

Lome Existing 2 weekly Brussels – Lome – Accra – Brussels service replaced by:
1 weekly Brussels – Abidjan – Lome – Brussels (SN251)
1 weekly Brussels – Accra – Lome – Brussels (SN277)

Cotonou Service Remains 2 weekly
Ouagadougou Service Remains 2 weekly
2 weekly Brussels – Ouagadougou – Cotonou (SN263/264)

Schedules as follows:

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SN245 BRU1200 – 1800ROB1910 – 2030ABJ2145 – 0525+1BRU 333 37
 SN247 BRU1215 – 1755ABJ1910 – 2030ROB2140 – 0515+1BRU 333 5
 SN251 BRU1310 – 1850ABJ2005 – 2120LFW2230 – 0555+1BRU 333 1
 SN273 BRU1040 – 1545BKO1635 – 1835ACC 333 37
 SN274 ACC1945 – 2150BKO2250 – 0545+1BRU 333 37
 SN277 BRU1245 – 1825ACC1935 – 2020LFW2130 – 0455+1BRU 333 5

Source: Airline Route

[sn26567]

brussels airlines Planned A330-200 Africa Service in Oct 2011

As per 21SEP11 GDS timetable and inventory display, brussels airlines is operating Airbus A330-200 (formerly owned by SWISS) on selected Africa service during the month of October 2011.

Planned operation as follows:

Brussels – Bujumbura – Nairobi – Brussels 12OCT11 – 26OCT11 All 2 weekly flights
Brussels – Douala vv 10OCT11 – 22OCT11 Day 1 (1 of 3 weekly)
Brussels – Kigali – Entebbe – Brussels 11OCT11 – 27OCT11 All 3 weekly flights
Brussels – Kigali – Nairobi – Brussels 14OCT11 – 28OCT11 All 1 weekly flight

Above mentioned routes, dates and operational days are subject to change.

Source: Airline Route

[tolipanebas]

In Europe, ATH and LIS are losing 1 daily frequency each, thus going down to just once daily, with codeshare supplemented service remaining intact.

VIE will see the nightstop service -operating at almost identical times as an OS flight- discontinued.

OSL also loses a daily frequency, thus going down to 2 daily service this winter season.

Tourist routes like NAP, SVQ and CTA are discontinued after the holiday period in first week of November, but planned to resume as from the start of the summer season (SVQ already on 19FEB even).

[Atlantis]

Belle air, the new LCC since this year at BRU, is going to fly through the whole year from Tirana to Brussels.
Bookings are doing well.

Jetairfly will also fly during winter to Pristina and Tirana from BRU.

[RoMax]

Tunisair:
Tunis – Brussels eff 25NOV11 Fridays Service operates with Airbus A300-600R (during Winter season), replacing A320. Overall daily service

source: airlineroute.net

Nice to see a regular A300 in BRU. I've already seen it as an upgrade on the Tunis route, but regular is still something else.

[sn26567]

British Airways: London Heathrow – Brussels
22JAN12 – 24FEB12 6th Daily service BA400/401 service resumes

[sdbelgium]

EFF 30OCT11: CSA will stop flying Bratislava-Brussels. This route was only started last June and thus lasted for about 4 months. Also the routes to Rome and Barcelona will be stopped.

[sn26567]

Czechoslovakia is no longer what it used to be. Slovakia needs a strong national airline: at this condition, the routes from Bratislava (which also has to compete with Vienna) will have a chance to survive.

[Charlie Roy]

For winter Aer Lingus go from 3 to 2 services on Sundays on their Brussels - Dublin route.
The afternoon service disappears, but the evening service gets upgraded from an A320 to an A321.

[sn26567]

Anadolujet to cancel flights from Ankara to Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and London Stansted this winter.

[globetrotter]

Anadolujet will quit BRU from 30th October.

[sn26567]

Anadolujet will quit BRU from 30th October.

... as written in the message above yours! Oh yes, the winter season starts indeed on Sunday, 30 October.

[sn26567]

More details about US Airways in winter 2011/2012:

Philadelphia – Brussels
29NOV11 – 15DEC11 Reduce from 6 weekly to 5 weekly (5 weekly in W10 operated between Jan and Mar 2011)
eff 16DEC11 Boeing 767-200ER replaces 757-200. Service in mid-Dec 2010 to Mar 2011 was 757
03JAN12 – 28FEB12 Service maintained at 6 weekly (Same period in 2011 was 5 weekly)

Source: Airline Route

[sn26567]

Shanghai Pu Dong – Brussels Suspended from 01JAN12 to 22MAR12

Code: Select all

 HU7907 PVG2310 – 0525+1BRU 330 47
 HU7908 BRU1230 – 0700+1PVG 330 15

Source: Airline Route

[RoMax]

For Singapore Airlines Cargo and Eva Air Cargo this winter:

SQ Cargo:

- 2 weekly Singapore – Hong Kong – Anchorage – Chicago – Atlanta – Brussels – Sharjah – Singapore
- 1 weekly Singapore – Hong Kong – Anchorage – Dallas – Brussels – Sharjah – Singapore
- 1 weekly Singapore – Xiamen – Nanjing – Anchorage – Los Angeles – Chicago – Brussels – Sharjah – Singapore
- 1 weekly
Singapore – Hong Kong – Anchorage – Dallas – Brussels >
Brussels – Chicago – Dallas – Brussels >
Brussels – Mumbai – Singapore
- 1 weekly
Singapore – Hong Kong – Anchorage – Dallas – Brussels >
Brussels – Dallas – Atlanta – Brussels >
Brussels – Sharjah – Singpaore

Eva Air Cargo:

- 2 weekly 74Y Taipei – Delhi – Brussels vv
- 1 weekly 74Y Taipei – Delhi – Brussels – London Heathrow – Delhi – Taipei

http://airlineroute.net/2011/10/31/brc-w11/
http://airlineroute.net/2011/11/01/sqc-w11/

No idea if this is more than past summer and/or previous winter. Someone with more knowledge about that?

[Atlantis]

@Mr_Boeing,

About Eva Air Cargo: as far as I know it is the same. Three cargo flights a week.

Singapore Airlines Cargo will be more then last year. They are going to increase the number of flights to/from BRU.

But, a cargo timetable is very difficult to publish. This is changing all the time. Ok, most of the routes fill be flown even as their frequencies but still.
That's also the reason why Brussels Airport don't publish anymore the cargo timetable. To much changes in the daily, weekly and monthly flights.

BTW, Korean Air Cargo is starting up next week their sixth cargo flight to BRU. Three to go...

[Established02]

BTW, Korean Air Cargo is starting up next week their sixth cargo flight to BRU. Three to go...

Their website seems to indicate that they are already operating 10 flights a week.
http://cargo.koreanair.com/eng/main_page.jsp
Several of these flights originate from Fargo and Montreal. These may be ad hoc charter flights.

[sn26567]

Shanghai Pu Dong – Brussels Suspended from 01JAN12 to 22MAR12

Hainan Airlines not only cancels Shanghai Pu Dong - Brussels from 01JAN12, but reservations for flights after 25MAR12 is also closed as well.

Source: Airline Route

[Bralo20]

LOL, and this only weeks after a "Het Laatse Nieuws" announced that HU would increase frequenties:

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1901/reisnieuw ... ssel.dhtml

Maybe they understood "decrease" as "increase"?

To bad to see another long haul route disappear, first ORD with AA and now PVG with HU...