Brucargo 2026: new routes, news

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Not only pax is expanding but also cargo.

Kalitta Air is expanding their presence at BRU with a route to Cincinnati. Since the beginning of this year, Kalitta Air is flying this resumed route 6 times a week with the B777. They fly on behalf of DHL Express.

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Kalitta Air is expanding their presence at BRU with a route to Cincinnati. Since the beginning of this year, Kalitta Air is flying this resumed route 6 times a week with the B777. They fly on behalf of DHL Express.

DHL has multiple daily connections between CVG and BRU. How to tell if this DHL/Kalitta service is really an expansion, rather than just a (temporary) substitute for an existing DHL/Aerologic service (to CVG) or for another DHL aircraft that became temporary unavailable?

Are there public figures for the flown tonnage on BRU-CVG and BRU-LEJ?

[Miqvell]

Kalitta Air is expanding their presence at BRU with a route to Cincinnati. Since the beginning of this year, Kalitta Air is flying this resumed route 6 times a week with the B777. They fly on behalf of DHL Express.

DHL has multiple daily connections between CVG and BRU. How to tell if this DHL/Kalitta service is really an expansion, rather than just a (temporary) substitute for an existing DHL/Aerologic service (to CVG) or for another DHL aircraft that became temporary unavailable?

Are there public figures for the flown tonnage on BRU-CVG and BRU-LEJ?

Here is what I found,

September 2025
BRU CVG = 1795 tons
CVG BRU = 1412 tons

Source : Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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Here is what I found,

September 2025
BRU CVG = 1795 tons
CVG BRU = 1412 tons

Source : Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Thanks for the data, Miqvell.

1800 tons in a month divided by 30 days would result in 60 tons per day. This is expectedly the payload of a single B77L/A330 flight, while DHL often operates at least 2 flights a day on BRU-CVG.

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Rare to see BRU=>JFK traffic.

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It looks like Emirates Cargo no longer operates to BRU. It seems they recently moved all their cargo ops to LGG.

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It looks like Emirates Cargo no longer operates to BRU. It seems they recently moved all their cargo ops to LGG.

Just to be honest, the weekly frequency was not high and the performance not great. Many times the flights were canceled

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It looks like Emirates Cargo no longer operates to BRU. It seems they recently moved all their cargo ops to LGG.

Just to be honest, the weekly frequency was not high and the performance not great. Many times the flights were canceled

I appreciate your honesty and I trust you know your numbers.

On the other hand, you seem to consider your lost customer EK as 'quantité négligeable'. BRU only has about 12 dedicated cargo customers (apart from DHL) and you just lost one of them. Not the biggest one, but not the smallest one either (I guess). EK cargo has been operating for like 10 years to BRU. It is EK that brought in the occasional 747s from Kalitta and Compass for supposedly heavy traffic to IAH (iirc) and ORD. BRU is now loosing a regular connection to DWC. As far as I know, BRU had invested a lot in pharma infrastructure, and now looses a part of this valuable pharma traffic to LGG! I hope BRU can prevent any of their remaining customers (e.g. ABB) from running off to magnet LGG.

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It looks like Emirates Cargo no longer operates to BRU. It seems they recently moved all their cargo ops to LGG.

Just to be honest, the weekly frequency was not high and the performance not great. Many times the flights were canceled

I appreciate your honesty and I trust you know your numbers.

On the other hand, you seem to consider your lost customer EK as 'quantité négligeable'. BRU only has about 12 dedicated cargo customers (apart from DHL) and you just lost one of them. Not the biggest one, but not the smallest one either (I guess). EK cargo has been operating for like 10 years to BRU. It is EK that brought in the occasional 747s from Kalitta and Compass for supposedly heavy traffic to IAH (iirc) and ORD. BRU is now loosing a regular connection to DWC. As far as I know, BRU had invested a lot in pharma infrastructure, and now looses a part of this valuable pharma traffic to LGG! I hope BRU can prevent any of their remaining customers (e.g. ABB) from running off to magnet LGG.

True, it's a customer left. LGG is very strong, is a 24/7 airport and has less restrictions. EK was flying indeed with bigger metal to BRU, but exactly this was a problem. Cost more and penalties. Each airline is checking the bill at the end.

LGG and BRU has more or less the same business. But pharma is much bigger at BRU than LGG.
On this way you see that it is not important. Flexibility is, and this is the issue at BRU.

Brucargo wants to grow big. More than 1 million ton. But it has difficulties to attract pure cargo airlines.
Most of the new ones are afraid of the restrictions bcs they fly with a much older fleet.

LGG has a very strong and active cargo team. Congratulations to them. The cargo stays in Belgium and this is important

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Today, Aviapartner cargo announced that it will sell all its cargo activities to WFS at Brussels Airport.

Aviapartner is active since 1980 at BRU.

Note that this is only related to the cargo activities. All passengers activities and General Aviation is not involved here.

Source: BRU

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Which cargo airlines are being handled by Aviapartner? Singapore Cargo,...?
All their cargo customers will move along to WFS or not necessarily?

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Which cargo airlines are being handled by Aviapartner? Singapore Cargo,...?
All their cargo customers will move along to WFS or not necessarily?

Not sure about the individual cases, but at the end I believe that the end customer will chose which handler they go further with. Or WFS, Dnata or Menzies.

Will WFS take over at the same conditions Aviapartner Cargo had? We know how tuff the competition is and how thin the margins.

They were handling Singapore Airlines Cargo, RAM Cargo, Sichuan Airlins, previous also Virgin Atlantic.

[ostair]

Today, Aviapartner cargo announced that it will sell all its cargo activities to WFS at Brussels Airport.

Aviapartner is active since 1980 at BRU.

Note that this is only related to the cargo activities. All passengers activities and General Aviation is not involved here.

Source: BRU

What about OST and LGG? At OST they usually have experienced people who come from BRU when the "experts" at OST are sick or on holiday.
I know that AP sends people from BRU to OST and LGG to help.

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Today, Aviapartner cargo announced that it will sell all its cargo activities to WFS at Brussels Airport.

Aviapartner is active since 1980 at BRU.

Note that this is only related to the cargo activities. All passengers activities and General Aviation is not involved here.

Source: BRU

What about OST and LGG? At OST they usually have experienced people who come from BRU when the "experts" at OST are sick or on holiday.
I know that AP sends people from BRU to OST and LGG to help.

It's only related to BRU. No other sites or countries where they are active

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I notice that Singapore Airlines Cargo has been cancelling several (if not all) flights last week and this week.

[Erikvanwijk01]

I notice that Singapore Airlines Cargo has been cancelling several (if not all) flights last week and this week.

Because of Chinese new year.
SQ will be back next Sunday.

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I notice that Singapore Airlines Cargo has been cancelling several (if not all) flights last week and this week.

Because of Chinese new year.
SQ will be back next Sunday.

Glad to hear. I had asked GROK AI for some explanation but apparently it was not capable to make the simple link with Chinese New Year. Instead it came up with some old argument about closed Iranian airspace.

Multiple Hainan pax flights have been cancelled, expectedly for Chinese New Year as well. OE-LFD has been in HKG since 22FEB. OO-LFC has been sitting idle in BRU since 22FEB. DHL may have reduced their PVG flights. But on the other hand I noticed that Zeta and especially Sichuan Airlines kept operating seemingly normally.

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Junaeyo also stopped temporarely

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Someone kindly messaged me saying that only 1 out of the 7 747s of the SQC fleet would have been operational during this Chinese New Year period. Quite astonishing to see how much of the global traffic is depending on China's manufacturing base, despite of having a worldwide network.

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Is the B77L of Central Airlines from Ezhou a new service to Brussels? According to the Brussels airport site they are scheduled to operate daily next week except on Wednesday.
Would be a nice addition and for once a Chinese cargo airliner that doesn’t operate from LGG.
They seem to operate under their name and not on behalf of DHL like the other aircraft that are comming to Brussels.
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