BRU in 2006: what to expect: airlines, routes, news

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 13 Dec 2005, 13:37

From March 2006, Air Wales will start again the route Cardiff - Brussels with a twice daily service.

Air Wales stopped that route in 2004 after only three months of service due to a lack of pax.
It's the government who will give some money to start up this route again to the city of Europe.

Curious how long it will stay.

Sources: BBC news and luchtvaartnieuws.

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 13 Dec 2005, 18:31

Atlantis wrote:Air Wales stopped that route in 2004 after only three months of service due to a lack of pax.

Not a surprise with the pathetic frequency they had

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 13 Dec 2005, 19:12

Jetair will bring the Turkish airline Inter airlines to our country.

Jetair expect a lot of customers next year to Turkey. They want to fly most of the flights direct, so no combinations. In that way they could offer nice hours.

Inter Airlines will use two A321 aircrafts. Jetair wants those aircrafts instead of the big with 320 seats. In that way they could offer flexible hours.

Next year Jetair will offer a strong increase of the flights to turkey.

Source: travel magazine newsletter.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 13 Dec 2005, 19:56

Will inter airlines get some A321's then ? Because if I recall correctly they don't have airbus planes in their fleet. Only B738..

Chris

Boeing767copilot · Post by **Boeing767copilot** » 13 Dec 2005, 20:02

see more details on

http://www.interekspres.com//

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 13 Dec 2005, 20:04

Ok thanks B767copilot

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 13 Dec 2005, 21:38

Official they have two B737-800 and three F100 in their fleet. But I thought that I had read something, some while ago, that they want to lease some A321 from an other Turkish airline.

They mention only the A321 and some pictures on their site but not in the section fleet. So, or the site in not up dated or they don't mention lease aircrafts.

burner737 · Post by **burner737** » 13 Dec 2005, 21:45

Inter Airlines are gonna start to fly with the A321s in 2006 @ this moment they are in full white colors ...

Regards Tim

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 13 Dec 2005, 21:47

Do you know were they come from?

Thanks in advance

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 15 Dec 2005, 16:49

Air Transat start it's seasonal operations on 12 April 2006 with two flights a week on Wednesday and Sunday with an A310 to Montreal. They will start first on Wednesday, after some weeks they will add Sunday to the timetable.

Starvmg · Post by **Starvmg** » 15 Dec 2005, 17:44

I think Jet Airways India (9W) may deploy the A330 on the route next year ...BOM-BRU-EWR to cash in on some diamond trade business

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 15 Dec 2005, 18:26

It's time for a little resume of the new destinations and airlines for 2006 at this time.

SNBA new summer destinations

Dubrovnic: 2x week

Genua: July and August: 2x week

SNBA restart summer destinations

Bari: starting end March 3x week. July and August 4x week

Naples: from April till October 4x - 6x week

St.Petersburg: starting end April 2x week

Source: Travel Magazine newsletter

SkyEurope

Krakow: starting 26 March 4x week

Jet Airways

Could we expect this airline for the route DEL - BRU - EWR?

Jetair

new destinations: Calabrië - Dalmation Islands - Marsa Matruh - Chalkidiki

BMI

Luton: new destination starting 27 March 3x daily

Croatia Airlines

Dubrovnic: starting April with an A320

Air Wales

Cardiff: new destination starting March 2x daily

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 16 Dec 2005, 02:07

Virgin Express will add Palermo, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Munich to its network of wich the last 3 will be operated by SNBA.

itami · Post by **itami** » 16 Dec 2005, 07:39

Atlantis wrote:It's time for a little resume of the new destinations and airlines for 2006 at this time.

No news yet about destinations in Far East ?

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 16 Dec 2005, 16:52

Not at this moment. Last visit of the Hainan delegation at Zürich airport to decide which airport they want to take; BRU or Zürich. I hope we will hear something in 2006 about their plans.

And about ANA also no news.

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 17 Dec 2005, 15:11

According to a not confirmed rumour SNBA wants to codeshare in 2006 with Jet Airways on the route BRU - BOM. This is sooner then expected.

lumumba · Post by **lumumba** » 17 Dec 2005, 15:35

Hi Atlantis.
Del and not Mumbay!
I will prefer Mumbay the Indian community in Antwerp is from Mumbay.
Regards
pat

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 17 Dec 2005, 15:48

Hi Lumumba,

It's indeed Bombay, was a little bid in a hurry to write my post. I have corrected it.

Sorry.

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 20 Dec 2005, 22:10

With two weeks to go to the new year I can give some figures about BRU for 2005.

I must say, BRU had a good year. Some new pax airlines and cargo airlines find their way to BRU. Other airlines stopped their services at BRU.

PAX: with two weeks to go, BRU reached the cape of 16.000.000 pax.
They could end at 16.200.000 pax. That's 700.000 pax more then
last year.

Cargo: very good year. This year will be better then the record of 2000.
Brucargo will end just under 700.000 tons of cargo: probably
697.000 tons. 30.000 tons more then last year.

Movements: that's the only negative. They will end at 250.000
movements.

Very correct figures I can give it in some weeks.

SN_fan · Post by **SN_fan** » 20 Dec 2005, 22:17

A decrease of movement is not bad. as long as there are more passengers and more cargo. I think Biac has mainly income of building they rent to companies. stores and stock etc?

anyway let's hope passenger numbers and cargo will keep increasing. Good for the jobs around and at the airport