Brussels BRU welcomed 23.6 million passengers in 2024, which was the airport’s fourth-highest traffic volume in history. The airport’s statistics show this was its highest result since 2020, but throughput remained down by a tenth compared to before the pandemic in 2019. Particularly reflecting the fact that Brussels Airlines (formerly Sabena) no longer uses RJs […]
August 18, 2025 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Brussels Airport is celebrating significant achievements, thanks to its “Have Seats, Will Travel” strategy, as emphasised by its Director of Aviation Development, Léon Verhallen, during the recent World Routes 2024 event in Bahrain. This approach, cantered on providing strong marketing support to airlines, has led to the addition of 10 new carriers and 20 new […]
November 14, 2024 | Air Service Event News
Brussels Airlines is the 31st-largest carrier serving Europe. According to Cirium schedules information, it has 2.1 million one-way seats, all from its Brussels BRU hub. Other than during the pandemic, capacity is at the carrier’s lowest level since 2017. While it has grown by 13% year-on-year, it remains down by almost 4% compared to W19. […]
November 4, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Brussels Airport is witnessing an exciting expansion this summer with the arrival of seven new airlines, broadening its network but also enhancing its role as a crucial hub for international travel. Brussels Airport has seen the addition of flights to Singapore by Singapore Airlines, as well as Bergen by Wideroe, Brive by Amelia International, and […]
June 13, 2024 | Air Service Event News
Transavia is the second-largest airline serving the Netherlands by available seats this summer. It operates from Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. Since 2022, the Dutch LCC, which focuses on leisure and VFR markets, has also operated from Belgium’s capital, Brussels. (This article does not examine Transavia France.) Transavia has 13% of the Netherlands’ total capacity, increased […]
May 1, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Brussels Airport has been riding a wave of success over the past 12 months, marked by the arrival of new airlines, the addition of over two dozen exciting new routes, and a strong recovery in passenger traffic, which now stands at an impressive 90% of pre-pandemic levels. These milestones have underscored the airport’s resilience in […]
October 9, 2023 | Air Service Event News
Brussels BRU welcomed almost 19 million passengers in 2022. While traffic was down by 28.2% versus 2019, it was primarily because of the first six months. Indeed, as the figure later in the article shows, data for May 2023 shows that passenger traffic narrowed greatly over 2019: it was down by only 9.1%. As the […]
July 6, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
It’s set to be a bright summer for Brussels Airport, which has announced a clutch of new destinations in Europe, Africa and North America. Billund (Denmark), Seville (Spain), Kayseri (Turkey), Monastir (Tunisia), Oran (Algeria) are among the new routes, in addition to Toronto joining the US/Canada portfolio and adding to the airport’s burgeoning network, taking […]
May 8, 2023 | Air Service Event News
Brussels Airlines is the smallest carrier in the Lufthansa Group. According to the Group’s quarterly statistics, it carried just over five million passengers between January and September 2022, equivalent to less than 7% of the Group’s total passengers. It has undertaken a considerable network purge as a part of its reorientation towards stronger financial performance. […]
February 23, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With the difficult Covid years behind it, Brussels Airport expects a 90% return to its pre-pandemic form in 2023 and a full recovery of all key destinations within their network. “Traffic was quite low in the first half of 2022 due to travel restrictions, but the second half of the year was much better starting […]
February 20, 2023 | Air Service Event News
Situated in Belgium about 51 kilometres north of Brussels, Antwerp is one of five passenger airports serving the country. According to the airport’s own statistics, Antwerp – the world’s diamond capital – had 239,500 two-way passengers in 2022, the fourth best year on record. While 63% higher than in 2021, it remained at just 78% […]
January 9, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
There are more flights between European airports and South Africa this northern winter than between Europe and any other country in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 780,000 one-way seats. Europe-South Africa capacity is down by a quarter Even though it is now South Africa’s summer, Europe-South Africa seats remain down […]
December 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story