BRU Summer 2013 - Latest News: routes, airlines

[OO-ITR]

Air Lituanica will debut June 30 with an initial service between Vilnius and Brussels. This will be joined by flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Munich and Moscow within its first year of operation.

http://atwonline.com/finance-amp-data/s ... une-launch

yes Lithuania's predicency of the EU will start on July first. I guess that is why BRU got priority

[RoMax]

Air Lituanica will debut June 30 with an initial service between Vilnius and Brussels. This will be joined by flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Munich and Moscow within its first year of operation.

http://atwonline.com/finance-amp-data/s ... une-launch

yes Lithuania's predicency of the EU will start on July first. I guess that is why BRU got priority

Indeed, it was mentionned earlier on in this topic already that they would start and last year it was also said that BRU would be one of the first because of the EU presidency.

Lithuania first asked Brussels Airlines to double their flights to Vilnius because of their EU presidency, but SN only wanted to do that if they received financial compensation if the flights proved to be loss making and that was quite an amount of money (according to Lithuania).

[RoMax]

The shedule:

Vilnius – Brussels eff 30JUN13 6 weekly

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OV5005 VNO1830 – 1955BRU E70 x6
OV5006 BRU2035 – 2350VNO E70 x6

http://airlineroute.net/2013/06/07/ov-vno-jun13/

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

Bookable via Estonian as Air Lithuanica still,don't have their own AOC...
High fares ! Better search a VNO through SN and even better hours

CXB

[sn26567]

Today, Pegasus launches a new route from Brussels Airport to Zafer/Kutahya (Turkey), twice a week.

[Comet]

The route from Leeds Bradford (Britain's worst airport) to Brussels has been axed by operator bmi Regional. The flight had operated three times daily until early 2011, when it was reduced to twice daily.

This is the second British airport to lose its Brussels service this year. The almost-as-awful-as-LBA Newcastle lost its Brussels route earlier in 2013.

[regi]

The route from Leeds Bradford (Britain's worst airport) to Brussels has been axed by operator bmi Regional. The flight had operated three times daily until early 2011, when it was reduced to twice daily.

This is the second British airport to lose its Brussels service this year. The almost-as-awful-as-LBA Newcastle lost its Brussels route earlier in 2013.

We are June, and I have not picked up 1 British business person at a Belgian airport yet this year. I had several mutual visits to Belgian customers but all came by car/ferry/train.

[sn26567]

Today, Pegasus launches a new route from Brussels Airport to Zafer/Kutahya (Turkey), twice a week.

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PC824 BRU2315 – 0345+1KZR 738 14
PC825 KZR0425 – 0720  BRU 738 25

[Comet]

The route from Leeds Bradford (Britain's worst airport) to Brussels has been axed by operator bmi Regional. The flight had operated three times daily until early 2011, when it was reduced to twice daily.

This is the second British airport to lose its Brussels service this year. The almost-as-awful-as-LBA Newcastle lost its Brussels route earlier in 2013.

We are June, and I have not picked up 1 British business person at a Belgian airport yet this year. I had several mutual visits to Belgian customers but all came by car/ferry/train.

Train might be OK for people coming from the south of England, but in the north the best way is still to fly - ferry is overnight and not very nice in my opinion, whereas flying takes less than an hour (the old moan about having to be at the airport so many hours before for check in is rather outdated now there is mobile and internet check in for flights, you can check in on your way to the airport). MAN is the only northern airport with a BRU service, though it is a vastly superior airport to NCL or LBA.

[sn26567]

Latvia's Air Baltic will introduce an additional rotation on the route between Riga and Brussels Airport from 09SEP13 to meet "high demand".

[sn26567]

Latvia's Air Baltic will introduce an additional rotation on the route between Riga and Brussels Airport from 09SEP13 to meet "high demand".

airBaltic Increases Brussels Operation from Sep 2013

airBaltic from 09SEP13 is increasing operation on Riga – Brussels route, with additional 4 weekly service added. Overall operation will increase from 12 to 16 weekly as a result. Dash8-Q400 aircraft operates this route.

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BT601 RIX0605 – 0800BRU DH4 x67
BT601 RIX0920 – 1115BRU DH4 6
BT605 RIX1240 – 1435BRU DH4 x567
BT603 RIX1550 – 1745BRU DH4 7
BT603 RIX1705 – 1900BRU DH4 x367
BT603 RIX1730 – 1925BRU DH4 3

BT602 BRU0830 – 1215RIX DH4 x67
BT602 BRU1155 – 1540RIX DH4 6
BT606 BRU1505 – 1850RIX DH4 x567
BT604 BRU1815 – 2200RIX DH4 7
BT604 BRU1930 – 2315RIX DH4 x367
BT604 BRU1955 – 2340RIX DH4 3

Source: Airline Route

[sn26567]

During its first month of operations Air Lituanica has carried out 98 flights, for a total capacity of 7448 seats and a load factor of 65% (sources at the airline are confident that this is figure is going to be up to 70% after the summer) on its Brussels and Amsterdam routes. An interesting detail is that Air Lituanica seems to have a very balanced mixed of Lithuanian and foreign passengers, roughly half and half.

[sn26567]

Royal Air Maroc using a Jordan Aviation A320 for European flights

Royal Air Maroc has, effective immediately, begun wet-leasing an A320-200, JY-JAC (cn 29), from Jordan Aviation. The contract is set to run until September 7 and will see the aircraft based out of the eastern Moroccan city of Oujda and operating daily flights to Brussels National and Paris Orly.

Source: ch-aviation

[sn26567]

Swiss to replace Augsburg Q400 with EMB190 from late August

Swiss will replace a Dash 8-400, D-ADHQ (c/n 4016), currently wet-leased from Augsburg Airways for use on flights from Zurich to Nuremberg, Brussels National and Munich, with an Augsburg Airways EMB-190 effective August 31. The German airline is expected to be liquidated by October 31 of this year.

Source: ch-aviation

[sn26567]

EVA Air closes its office in Brussels. No more EVA flights to BRU. Fifteen workers out of a job...

[BRUpilot]

EVA Air closes its office in Brussels. No more EVA flights to BRU. Fifteen workers out of a job...

This is really bad for the cargo-sector which isn't doing good for quit some time yet...

But can i ask you something? Where do you get all this information from? Do you work atthe airport or is there a good site about aviation info?

Thanks allready

[woutertheboy]

EVA Air closes its office in Brussels. No more EVA flights to BRU. Fifteen workers out of a job...

This is really bad for the cargo-sector which isn't doing good for quit some time yet...

But can i ask you something? Where do you get all this information from? Do you work atthe airport or is there a good site about aviation info?

Thanks allready

I think he has some good aviation sources, especially about BRU

[sn26567]

Where do you get all this information from? Do you work at the airport or is there a good site about aviation info?

1) As my avatar suggests, I have worked for Sabena (a long time ago)
2) I am retired now, which gives me some free time to read a lot of articles about aviation
3) I still have contacts in the aviation world

Now back to topic!

Those who had hoped that the suspension of EVA Air Cargo flights at BRU was only temporary will be disappointed. The closure of the Brussels office makes EVA's departure definitive.

[Atlantis]

But it was also already published on the website Travel Magazine:)


EVA Air sluit kantoor in Brussel: 15 medewerkers op straat


EVA Air, voluit Evergreen AirLines, sluit zijn kantoor in Brussel. Het nieuws is ons bevestigd door William Liu, assistant-stationmanager van EVA AIr in Brussel. De luchtvaartmaatschappij uit Taiwan deelde de beslissing vandaag mee aan het personeel en de sluiting is onmiddellijk van kracht. Daardoor verliezen zo’n 15 personeelsleden hun job. Het gaat om 12 medewerkers van de cargo-divisie en 3 medewerkers die verantwoordelijk waren voor sales en ticketing. EVA Air voerde tot deze week één cargovlucht per week uit met een Boeing B747F vrachttoestel. De voorbije jaren was de verbinding naar Brussel al fel afgebouwd. Ooit vloog de maatschappij tot 5 keer per week tussen Tapei, de hoofdstad van Taiwan, en Brussels Airport. In Europa blijft de maatschappij wel passagiers- en cargovluchten uitvoeren op Amsterdam Schiphol, Londen Heathrow, Parijs Charles de Gaulle en Wenen. (30-8-2013)

[LJ]

But it was also already published on the website Travel Magazine:)

In Europa blijft de maatschappij wel passagiers- en cargovluchten uitvoeren op Amsterdam Schiphol, Londen Heathrow, Parijs Charles de Gaulle en Wenen. (30-8-2013)

To bad Travel Magazine doesn't know that BR doesn't have cargo flights to AMS, LHR, CDG and VIE. The only other European destination which receives BR cargo planes is FRA.