BRU Summer 2023: news, new routes, airlines

[brabel]

Air Canada announced to start flights between Toronto and Brussels starting summer season 2023.

I'm surprised not to see the return of the flight ATL BRU with DL ! Was this link not working properly ? And when AC will open YYZ ? Thx

YYZ with AC will be in June '23

Today in Montréal, AC officially announced (re)lauch date of the route between YYZ and BRU starting June 1st (from YYZ). This service will be with a Boeing 787. The service will take place all year round.

Frequency will be 5x/week with flight:

• From YYZ dep: 18:20, day 2-3-4-6-7, arr 07:45+1.
  From BRU dep: 12:25, day 1-3-4-5-7, arr 12:25.

Finally!

I hope in 2023 there are going to be many new (intercontinental) routes. Might some Asian destinations come back?

I also hope that SN will be part of the growth. A strong home carrier is necessary, also for their African connections. Boston? More African destinations? Back to Mumbai (probably not)?

[theeuropean]

I hope also SN will expand, an airport that I admire in getting routes launched even if seasonal it’s ATH I hope BRU takes some ideas from their route development team. Great that YYZ will be year round!

[crew1990]

In the Brussels Airlines booking engine you can already see 2 new destinations.

-Zurich (to avoid Swiss to have a nightstop in BRU)
-Warsaw is coming back to feed the network.

Other destination, new and "old" one are will be announced soon.

[Atlantis]

In the Brussels Airlines booking engine you can already see 2 new destinations.

-Zurich (to avoid Swiss to have a nightstop in BRU)
-Warsaw is coming back to feed the network.

Other destination, new and "old" one are will be announced soon.

Great that those destinations will be back. Zurich as feeder flight and business.
Warsaw is also an important destination as a lot of diplomats and political persons are travelling with LOT to BRU. But people use them also to travel deeper into Eastern Europe. SN could take again a part of it. Lot is taking advantage now by having high prices on this route. When they were flying both and multiple times a day, prices were much lower.

Good moves SN

[fcw]

Great that those destinations will be back. Zurich as feeder flight and business.
Good moves SN

It’s just replacing SR metal by SN metal, on one rotation, to save the costs of a night stopping crew. The opposite is already happening for GVA.
Good move in terms of cost saving, but no spectacular new route news.

[theeuropean]

New routes for SN in the summer season:

Brussels – Djerba eff 01APR23 1 weekly A320 (2 weekly 04JUL23 – 29AUG23. Djerba was last served until September 2019)
SN3885 BRU1310 – 1505DJE 320 2
SN3885 BRU1625 – 1820DJE 320 6

SN3886 DJE1605 – 2010BRU 320 2
SN3886 DJE1920 – 2325BRU 320 6

Brussels – Monastir eff 01APR23 1 weekly A320 (2 weekly 16MAY23 – 04JUL23, 3 weekly 06JUL23 – 05SEP23, 2 weekly 09SEP23 – 30SEP23. Monastir was last served until April 2019)
SN3893 BRU0600 – 0750MIR 320 246
SN3894 MIR0850 – 1250BRU 320 246

Brussels – Zurich eff 27MAR23 5 weekly A319 (6 weekly from 30OCT23. Sabena Mainline previously served this route until March 1996)
SN2729 BRU0655 – 0810ZRH 319 x67
SN2730 ZRH0900 – 1015BRU 319 x67

Link: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221109-snns23sh

I hope there are more than Mediterranean destinations coming up

[crew1990]

New routes for SN in the summer season:

Brussels – Djerba eff 01APR23 1 weekly A320 (2 weekly 04JUL23 – 29AUG23. Djerba was last served until September 2019)
SN3885 BRU1310 – 1505DJE 320 2
SN3885 BRU1625 – 1820DJE 320 6

SN3886 DJE1605 – 2010BRU 320 2
SN3886 DJE1920 – 2325BRU 320 6

Brussels – Monastir eff 01APR23 1 weekly A320 (2 weekly 16MAY23 – 04JUL23, 3 weekly 06JUL23 – 05SEP23, 2 weekly 09SEP23 – 30SEP23. Monastir was last served until April 2019)
SN3893 BRU0600 – 0750MIR 320 246
SN3894 MIR0850 – 1250BRU 320 246

Brussels – Zurich eff 27MAR23 5 weekly A319 (6 weekly from 30OCT23. Sabena Mainline previously served this route until March 1996)
SN2729 BRU0655 – 0810ZRH 319 x67
SN2730 ZRH0900 – 1015BRU 319 x67

Link: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221109-snns23sh

I hope there are more than Mediterranean destinations coming up

Yes there will, as already mention, Warsaw is coming back, and there will be more.

[TLspotting]

Yup, also Vilnius is expected to come back, kind of surprising, already bookable from end March.

[nordikcam]

Does anyone know when ANA and HAINAN will return directly to Brussels ? I guess we can forget about Cathay and Singapore...Thx.

[BekEBBR]

They do already, don't they?
I've seen Hainan twice or three times in the morning last week and ANA has like one or two pax flights a week and some cargo dedicated aswell. But I'm not sure of the frequency of all these flights, it's only what I saw on the apron during work.
I would still bet on SQ though...

[flightlover]

ANA has almost completely stopped their ops on BRU for the winter season. They will be flying some days though (e.g. december 24).
Cargo flights stopped last month. No Idea if these will ever return.

[VoloperTe]

New route for Brussels Airlines in the summer season : Brindisi (Italy) from 29 April 2023.

Source : https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221122-snns23bds

[Atlantis]

ANA has almost completely stopped their ops on BRU for the winter season. They will be flying some days though (e.g. december 24).
Cargo flights stopped last month. No Idea if these will ever return.

ANA stopped temporary their ops to BRU such as many other destinations. This due to the strict Covid rules in Japan.
ANA did, also on a temporary basis, cargo flights to BRU. For the moment there are no cargo flights. It can be ad hoc, but in general they will not return (cargo)

[Lux_avi]

ANA has almost completely stopped their ops on BRU for the winter season. They will be flying some days though (e.g. december 24).
Cargo flights stopped last month. No Idea if these will ever return.

ANA stopped temporary their ops to BRU such as many other destinations. This due to the strict Covid rules in Japan.
ANA did, also on a temporary basis, cargo flights to BRU. For the moment there are no cargo flights. It can be ad hoc, but in general they will not return (cargo)

Japan lifted their covid restrictions recently.

[Atlantis]

ANA has almost completely stopped their ops on BRU for the winter season. They will be flying some days though (e.g. december 24).
Cargo flights stopped last month. No Idea if these will ever return.

ANA stopped temporary their ops to BRU such as many other destinations. This due to the strict Covid rules in Japan.
ANA did, also on a temporary basis, cargo flights to BRU. For the moment there are no cargo flights. It can be ad hoc, but in general they will not return (cargo)

Japan lifted their covid restrictions recently.

Hong Kong also but we don't see yet Cathay Pacific back. They are very coutious in Asia

[Airbus330lover]

No news from Thai ? it's up and down.
I really hope SQ....If they can fill Milan, they also can fill BRU

[Lux_avi]

Hong Kong also but we don't see yet Cathay Pacific back. They are very coutious in Asia

No, HKG still has some restrictions! Japan is fully open.
BRU was most likely not their most lucrative route… I guess it will take a while before they come back.

[VoloperTe]

Hi everybody,

I was able to have a little conversation with a member of Aviation Development Team of Brussels Airport. The questions i asked him :

▪New routes with Brussels Airlines or Air Belgium to US, Canada, Africa and maybe South America ?
▪New transatlantic low cost airlines like Jetblue, Westjet or Norse ?
▪Maybe new routes to Houston and San Francisco with United Airlines ?
▪Come back of American with non stop service to Philadelphia ?
▪Is the CBP project still on the agenda of Brussels Airport ?
▪Come back in the future of Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong ? More flights of Hainan to Beijing and Shenzhen, and ANA to Tokyo ?
▪And finally can Royal Jordanian resumes flights to Amman instead of Ryanair ?

Here is the short answer : Most of your questions are actually under discussion between our teams and partners. I can't tell you more. Stay tuned

[crew1990]

For Brussels Airlines, we can already see Djerba, Monastir, Brindisi, Zurich and Warsaw as "new" destination, I know two other one more business oriented wich will start, one of them was there before the covid crisis and the other one is a new one for SN even if it was alreaydy a code share on another airline. I'd like to say more but unfortunately, as it's not yet in the booking engine and there is no official annoucement yet, I can't. For long haul, there should be normally no expansion this year.

For Air Belgium, I do not know the plan but regarding L'Echo the liquidity of AB just allow them to fly the winter sheduled if they can't find other European investment.

https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/aviati ... 30041.html

[VoloperTe]

Good afternoon everybody,

Vueling will begin seasonal non stop service to Bilbao (Spain) from 3JUL23. It's possible to book right now on Vueling website !
3 weekly flights are planned on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Great to see more destinations with Vueling