Official: Brussels-Ouagadougou by Brussels Airlines

[flandersairlines]

Yes, daily, although the return flight SN 3634 only shows up from July 5. You can already book it separetely or with e.g. Paris - Abidjan. Strange that Paris - Lome is not possible, although it is the same flight.

[tolipanebas]

Yes, daily, although the return flight SN 3634 only shows up from July 5. You can already book it separetely or with e.g. Paris - Abidjan. Strange that Paris - Lome is not possible, although it is the same flight.

FWIW, first flight to CDG scheduled mostly on A319, second one on 737.

[tolipanebas]

Yes, daily, although the return flight SN 3634 only shows up from July 5.

That's because the operations with the 5th A330 only start from beginning of July... before that day, there's no use for this second flight, since there are no noon/late afternoon long haul departures, so no need for any feeding from Paris; once the new destinations come online, that will obviously change, as can be seen above.

[Air Key West]

This off topic, but with the second flight back from CDG as from July, this flight will also offer good connections with Hainan's flights to PEK and SHA. I hope b.air has offered HN to carry their connecting pax from Paris to Beijing and Shangai via BRU.

[RoMax]

SN has given also a press conference in Paris yesterday. Because there are some French sources that tell that "SN said on Tuesday in paris...". So Brussels Airlines nows where they have to go to pick som pax from big concurrents like Air France. This is already the second time in 6 month's or so that SN did a press conference in Paris to promote their African network.

Maybe also a bit more information about Korongo.
It's a project of 10 million Euro, 5 million by SN and 5 million by the Forrest Group. SN will have 50% of the shares, the forrest group the other 50%. It will be launched in 2010 (they want it this year because of the 50th anniversary of the independent DRC) with a B737 that will fly between Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. They want to start in the summer or a bit later. The plan is to fly soon with 3-4 airplanes to several destinations in congo and country's around Congo. They will start with a Belgian licence and want to respect to international aviation standards to be the safest airline in the DRC. Safety is one of the tools they gonne use to sell their tickets, they hope/think they are gonne sell a lot tickets to the United Nations. Normally they charter a plane for their domestic flights in Congo because of the lack of a safe airline, Korongo need to be a solution.
They say the potential is big, but they dont give an exact number of pax they expect for Korongo.