BRU Summer 2025: news, new routes, airlines

[nordikcam]

Quick reminder, as from next week Friday, 1st Aug, Cathay will start up flights to BRU with the A350

Do u have schedules ? I do not find those..Thx

[Atlantis]

Quick reminder, as from next week Friday, 1st Aug, Cathay will start up flights to BRU with the A350

Do u have schedules ? I do not find those..Thx

Sure, no problem. The flights will depart from Hong Kong each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with an arrival the next day at BRU at 07.20h. The plane will be the 350-900

[nordikcam]

Quick reminder, as from next week Friday, 1st Aug, Cathay will start up flights to BRU with the A350

Do u have schedules ? I do not find those..Thx

Sure, no problem. The flights will depart from Hong Kong each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with an arrival the next day at BRU at 07.20h. The plane will be the 350-900

Thx. I asked because it does not appear on the Bru web site this next Saturday.

[ZavCity]

Booking site CX:first flight next monday AUG 4 with dep 13.35 in BRU

[Atlantis]

Do u have schedules ? I do not find those..Thx

Sure, no problem. The flights will depart from Hong Kong each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with an arrival the next day at BRU at 07.20h. The plane will be the 350-900

Thx. I asked because it does not appear on the Bru web site this next Saturday.

Correct, they start to fly on Sunday and will arrive the next day at BRU

[BekEBBR]

As from the 1st Sep till 25th October, Etihad will upgrade to an A350-1000 next to the B787-10 on selected days

Do you have more informations about that?
Because I booked a flight for October 16 and 777-300ER is planned at the moment.

[sn26567]

Booking site CX:first flight next monday AUG 4 with dep 13.35 in BRU

That makes it seven Asian destinations by 6 different airlines:

Bangkok: Thai Airways International – 7 weekly flights
Beijing: Hainan Airlines – 7 weekly flights
Hong Kong: Cathay Pacific – 4 weekly flights
Shanghai: Hainan Airlines and Juneyao Air – 4 weekly flights each
Shenzhen: Hainan Airlines – 3 weekly flights
Singapore: Singapore Airlines – 4 weekly flights
Tokyo: ANA – 2 weekly flights

Pity that Tokyo is only twice a week.

[BRU_AV_123]

Quick reminder, as from next week Friday, 1st Aug, Cathay will start up flights to BRU with the A350

Took the flight for the first time, excellent service, full in Economy, 90% in Premium Economy and more or less 50-60% in Business.

Considering it was a HKG to BRU flight while most of the passengers seem to be BRU based and it is less than one week since the first flight, it seems like a great start (load factor wise at least).

[BrightCedars]

That makes it seven Asian destinations by 6 different airlines:

There are much more Asian destinations out of BRU (ESB, EVN, BEY, AUH, DOH, DXB, etc.), these pertain to North/East/South-East Asia to be more specific.

Pity that Tokyo is only twice a week.

Indeed, they should revert to a B787-8 and increase frequency to at least 3-4/ week to make it meaningful.

Another pity, none of those flights are operated by a local carrier.

[Airwave]

To put the importance of our BRU airport in perspective (or our feet on the ground) : Air Canada is restarting his operations since a couple of hours. Most European flights will fly off from Montreal (even Toulouse !) this evening, except : BRU...

[remstorm]

To put the importance of our BRU airport in perspective (or our feet on the ground) : Air Canada is restarting his operations since a couple of hours. Most European flights will fly off from Montreal (even Toulouse !) this evening, except : BRU...

all flights are canceled

[Airwave]

Correct for now, it seems that the Union(s) refuse to comply to official instructions to restart working. Since my message "planned restart suspended" has become visible on their site.

[longwings]

To put the importance of our BRU airport in perspective (or our feet on the ground) : Air Canada is restarting his operations since a couple of hours. Most European flights will fly off from Montreal (even Toulouse !) this evening, except : BRU...

If this is how you measure BRU's importance, hang on....

Last Friday, Air Canada canceled all flights to Europe from YUL and YYZ in anticipation of the strike, except CDG, VIE, FRA, and... BRU! Each city got at least one flight, while all others on their European network, including LHR, didn't.

Also, that aircraft has not left BRU and is on the ground ready to resume operations.

Finally, Air Canada Cargo added flights to LGG to make up for the lost cargo volume during the strike.

Correct for now, it seems that the Union(s) refuse to comply to official instructions to restart working. Since my message "planned restart suspended" has become visible on their site.

It's a little bit more complicated.
#1 The Minister's order was effective Sunday at 2 pm (30 minutes ago as I write this). Given the tense relationship between flight attendants and management, crew are not moving an inch in anticipation of flight resumption until the deadline at the earliest. Best case scenario (see #2), 2 pm is when they log in from home to find out their assignment and you can count of them taking all the time they're allowed to report for duty.

#2 The union's legal experts contend that while current legislation does give the Minister the right to issue return-to-work orders, the legislation is unconstitutional, and the union is not recommending to its members they return to work

(most legal experts not on the union's payroll think this is a high-risk strategy because the Minister's order is legal until a judge says it is not)

[VoloperTe]

Hi everybody,

FlyOne Armenia is reducing operations on Yerevan-Brussels route between 18SEP25 until 23OCT25 (service suspended).
There are others reductions flights also to Paris, Cologne, Milan, Barcelone, Nice...

[DannyVDB]

Hi all,

Something I noticed already a few times but I see that a B789 from Hainan landed this morning coming in from Boston. As far as I know they don't fly this route. Is it a special flight (it landed as HU730 at 7:09am, according to flightradar24). Is this freight? But it is a B789 so that would be weird ... Maybe already discussed somewhere else?

Cheers,
Danny

[HQ_BRU_Lover]

Regular scheduled visitor, technical/fuel stop - if I'm not mistaken linked to Russian restrictions as well

[lumumba]

Regular scheduled visitor, technical/fuel stop - if I'm not mistaken linked to Russian restrictions as well

Yep correct the United States has the balls to ban flying over Russia to the United States, but that's not the case for weak Europeans.

[Established02]

Regular scheduled visitor, technical/fuel stop - if I'm not mistaken linked to Russian restrictions as well

HU operates three other routes (PEK, PVG, SZX) that continue to overfly Russia. Someone commented earlier that old routes started before the war sanctions are allowed to continue their operations over Russia. New routes started after the war sanctions (e.g. PEK-BOS-BRU-PEK) are not allowed. Despite this handicap, HU apparently still favors an eastbound return from BOS, rather than a westbound return.

[lumumba]

Regular scheduled visitor, technical/fuel stop - if I'm not mistaken linked to Russian restrictions as well

HU operates three other routes (PEK, PVG, SZX) that continue to overfly Russia. Someone commented earlier that old routes started before the war sanctions are allowed to continue their operations over Russia. New routes started after the war sanctions (e.g. PEK-BOS-BRU-PEK) are not allowed. Despite this handicap, HU apparently still favors an eastbound return from BOS, rather than a westbound return.

This is not correct, flights from the European Union to China can fly over Russia, flights from the United States to China cannot fly over Russia.

Juneyao started after the war to BRU and fly over Russia for example.

[longwings]

This is not correct, flights from the European Union to China can fly over Russia, flights from the United States to China cannot fly over Russia.

The US and China recently renegotiated approved routes between the two countries, and no route overflying Russia was included.

On the other hand, Emirates, Qatar, Air India, Uzbekistan Airways, are among the several airlines flying over Russia daily on the way to/from the USA.

Yep correct the United States has the balls to ban flying over Russia to the United States, but that's not the case for weak Europeans.

The USA has banned US-registered carriers from operating in Russian airspace, that's it.