Macquarie Airports: big plans for Brussels!

[Atlantis]

Today Macquarie Airports shows an overview of the financial, new board, plans, etc.
MacquarieAirports
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It is a very clear and nice presentation. Not only for Brussels, it's for all the airports they have in there wallet. Today it was Brussels.

These are the highlights:

Creating new and more parkingfacilities
Ample the airport capacity
Attracting new airlines and develop new destinations to Brussels: long haul, short haul and Cargo
Develop: - Airport Village
- Brucargo and Brucargo West
- Crew facility
- Airport Technical Zone North
Develop routes: North-America East Coast Canada
US Mainland hubs

Leisure destinations
Asia
Middle East
Diabolo

So: a lot of work for the comming weeks, months and years. But I think it's going out the good direction with Brussels. The traffic numbers are lower then last year but the planes are full.

[x-prise]

it seems they may be getting brussels to get big as heathrow or paris and amsterdam by attracting major airlines flying to/from us/canada,middle east, meditearaenean basin aswell as asia so apparently eventually we will se etihad,emirates, us airways maybe... even mabe proper pax singapore or eva air we have confirmed jet airways so much to work on imagine brussels with all its space develops so much so as to defeat the airport of the same size which is heathrow and more with than 64 million per pax year in 2000 in pos#4 overall MAp has airports in pos#s, 4,32,36 in 2000. so good enough in my opinion since look at what BRU could become at the same size as Heathrow!...

[Atlantis]

Try this link: www.macquarie.com.au

I was forgotten to mention this one. SN Brussels Airlines is also an important player is these plans. They want to co-share or fly on there own to some of those new destinations. SN Brussels is currently thinking to expand there destinations and aircrafts.

[Bruspotter]

Hello

I wouldn't hope too much too soon...lets wait and see what happens.

But I'm very happy they still WANT BRU to grow. And indeed , BRU has high flight frequency ciphers. I can tell you that. (still could be lot more....):D.

But it's fine that they want to attract more long-haul airlines. And except new like Ethihad/Emirates , maybe US airways and Hainan(???) and Jet airways. And than maybe idd , we can see airlines like Eva Air and Singapore again , although I think SQ would be good enough too for me. Already a big step back to BRU , since SQ left BRU in June/July 2003 (or was it 2004? ).

IF SQ would decide to come at BRU Again , we have a very good chance I think to be a between station , since SQ has it's European Cargo hub at Brussels too. IF they do that...I'm sure that....'A380's COME TO ME' isn't asked too much , especially not if were talking about freighters.

Best regards: Yannick

[SN30952]

IF SQ would decide to come at BRU Again , we have a very good chance I think to be a between station, since SQ has it's European Cargo hub at Brussels too.

SQ cargo coming to Zaventem, is mainly due to Antwerp Harbour and Singapore Harbour cross shares.
SQ has problems climbing back to its LF level of a few years ago and pre-Sars level, and that level already was the cause of closing th BRU destination.
I'm not optimistic on that, Yannick. But I do not want to spit in the soup. I would be nice if they came.
The Emirates event has more viability in my eyes, as the airport of Sydney will be a major asset in the Tasman route battle, where Emirates made it possible QF and NZ to code-share. Dealings in Australia may give Mq an advantage in BRU, as EK-slots for the Tasman route, are the conditio sine qua non for EK-survival in that battle. Mq's givings on the Tasman, maybe will reflect in some EK-activity in BRU. What ever EK-experts will tell you, EK's decision will be related to Mq deals with EK in Australia, and vv.

[DannyVDB]

it seems they may be getting brussels to get big as heathrow or paris and amsterdam (...) so as to defeat the airport of the same size which is heathrow (...) what BRU could become at the same size as Heathrow!...

Pay attention, MAP makes the comparison with LHR in a particular way, i.e. that it has the same area as LHR and there is indeed scope for developing not only new connections, but especially new opportunities for business, cargo, other activities. They do not refer necessarily to the number of pax!

Of course BRU will grow. It can only grow since the attraction of O&D pax and BRU can only grow regarding intercontinental traffic since there is almost nothing left!

Danny

Danny

[sn26567]

Creating new and more parking facilities
Diabolo

These two items were started well before MAp took over BRU Airport.

More parking is badly needed. Last week I parked my car in Parking Front Level 1. It was more than full and there were cars everywhere outside of the parking spots. I saw a badly parked Renault Espace, the side of which was compeletely scratched because its driver had not left sufficient space for other cars to pass. He must have had a bad surprise when coming back from his trip, but entirely his fault!

A way to save on more parking lotsis to make public transportation more attractive. The first part of the Diabolo is almost complete, as I could see when landing on rwy 02. That will help passengers coming from Liège and Leuven. But for me it still takes too long to come by train or by bus, and I'll continue using my car as long as the situation has not improved.

[sn26567]

Among the new works, I also see:
Pier B: interim changes complete June 2005
Pier B: reconfiguration and security relocation in 2006

I am surprised at this:
Benchmarking with reference airports
– Currently Brussels is very well positioned
• At the low end on tariffs: really
• At the high end on quality: that is probably true

and waiting for this:
Aviation conference at Brussels Airport in August

One question:
Among the Commercial Revenues, there is this line: Employee Parking
Do BIAC employees really have to pay for their parking when they come to work?

There are also monopolies at BRU:
Belgian Skyshops (=Aldo Vastapane) operate all the duty free / travel value shops
and Restair all the food and beverage outlets
and nothing is going to change in the future.

[waldova]

One question:
Among the Commercial Revenues, there is this line: Employee Parking
Do BIAC employees really have to pay for their parking when they come to work?

I don't know about BIAC but I know that BGS employees have to pay a monthly fee to be able to park close to the airport building. Luckely the students don't have to pay anything but ofcourse they have to do a long walk to get to the terminal (from DHL parking to the terminal)

[Kapitein]

One question:
Among the Commercial Revenues, there is this line: Employee Parking
Do BIAC employees really have to pay for their parking when they come to work?

No, I do not have to pay for my parkingspot. Hopefully it stays that way

[sn26567]

So, MAp employees do not pay for their parking spots, but employees of other companies active at the airport must pay (or their company does).

There are no small profits!

[Atlantis]

Creating new and more parking facilities
Diabolo

These two items were started well before MAp took over BRU Airport.

That's correct, but they gave a resume of all the issues of the airport.

Our company at Brucargo used in the past also some parkings of BIAC. I can tell you that is very expensive: some millions per month
That's way, not the only reason off curse, that we made more parkingspots for our own and not hire from BIAC.

[Squalo]

Cool stuff I have been to Brussels and Antwerp and well pretty much all over Belgium alot of the time. Question for you guys is What is the catchment population for Brussels Airport. Could it really be as busy or big as Heathrow. I know Belgium is very busy with cargo but I never realised passenger wise it was that busy.

8) S q u a l o 8)

[Atlantis]

Squalo,

Very unlikely that Brussels can even big as Heathrow. Heathrow has some million passengers per month. Brussels for the moment 1.200.000 per month. But it increases when the summer holiday is comming up.
Last year the highest number of passengers at Brussels was 1.693.000.
Our topyear was 2000 with more then 21.000.000 passengers for a year.

But that's far away of Heathrow. The mean reason is that, for this moment, there is no big intercontinental route-network for Brussels. There you can make a lot of passengers. Look at Heathrow, every continent is present.

But, you can also ask: is it nessesary to have also a big airport as Heathrow. We can take advantage of it. When there are to many competitors, they will look at an other airport with good facilities, connections, railway, etc.

People love to go to an airport where you can breath, and not walking like sardines.

[sab319]

I think the australians are dreaming a bit...

[LJ]

SQ has it's European Cargo hub at Brussels too.

I wonder if SQ still calls BRU their "European Cargo Hub" as they openly apply for even more slots at AMS (and they've already increased flights at AMS the past year).

Of course BRU will grow. It can only grow since the attraction of O&D pax and BRU can only grow regarding intercontinental traffic since there is almost nothing left!

However, there is not much long haul O&D traffic between Belgium and Asia and the alliance connected airlines (like KE, SQ, CX and MH) have almost no business at BRU as they can't offer connections. The only airlines interested are those not being able to obtain slots at CDG/AMS/FRA (see Jet Airways) and/or airlines which aren't part of any alliance (most airlines from Middle East).

[OrientThai]

There is potential for new flights to Asia.
Look at the successful cooperation between AA and SNBA. Both carriers are offering good connections to Africa, Europe, and the USA for the passengers.
The cooperation is working well and AA is considering to add a MIA-BRU and even a link to Asia out of BRU.
If SNBA and an Asian airlines (Hainan Airlines) do the same kind of cooperation then the route will work.

[JetB]

It takes 10 min and more to pass the security checkpoints at peak hours, that is something you would never have seen in the past, but now its a daily event !.

Guess it is the price you pay for privatization ?. I could be wrong, maybe its the fact that Securair cant fiend agents anymore, half the country already worked for them !.

[Atlantis]

For the moment it's very quiet around Hainan. This month it's was d-day if they come to Brussels or not. For the moment nothing is mentioned on there site at all. Very strange .

It would be nice if AA consider to fly to Asia via Brussels. It's the same way like KLM and Northwest. Northwest is flying from the USA via AMS to India.

[fly]

it would be even better if SN decided to fly to asia with the code of AA on it. 8)