Lets be practical !
Can you give me a timetable ? Yes with times of departure and arrivals (for AFI and US cxs)?
One way and return?
Thank you
Sure why not?
There are many considerations for a schedule, like passenger convenience on both ends.
All matters considered, most of the 12 previously mentioned African destinations within A320 range are 7 hours flying time.
It takes days if not weeks to make a complete matrix but here's an example of a 3 sectors per day A319/A320 operation.
Wave 1 BRU-AFI 09:00-16:00
AFI-BRU 16:45-23:45
Wave 3
BRU-AFI 00:30-07:30 AFI-BRU 08:45-15:45
Wave 2 BRU-AFI 16:45-23:45 AFI-BRU 00:30-07:30
US flights, in the later afternoon, with 100% coverage of the U.S.:
Daily NYC with Jetblue feed for East Coast and Central
Daily DEN (Denver) and/or IAH (Houston) with United Airlines feed for West Coast and Central.
This is how it works:
Each of the 12 African destination gets a weekly mix of morning, evening and night departures from BRU, so each destination can get good feeding depending on where the customers come from and customers can choose their travel date depending on the day where arrival and departure time suits their convenience best.
This depends if the customer generates in the U.S., China, Europe, Brussels or somewhere else, or if the customer's final destination in Africa is in the vicinity of the African airport.
In this schedule, the 2 underlined flights won't see US connections unless a midnight transatlantic flight is launched. This doesn't seem viable. However, that is not an issue, this is why:
The few U.S. customers who have set travel schedules have a 66,6% chance of finding a flight connection that suits them, either through the morning Star flights or evening SN flights coinciding with the African flights. If they fall in the 33,4% where the African A320 flights don't coincide with US connections, ie the midnight BRU arrivals and departures, they only need to wait longer for the midnight African flight or morning U.S. flights
I know that this seems complicated but if you read it carefully, you'll see some sense coming out of it.
For example a return flight customer generating in NYC:
U.S. customer takes a UA flight departing EWR to connect in BRU on Wave 1 departure to Africa
U.S. customer takes Wave 3 flight back from Africa to connect on to Evening SN flight to NYC.
