Winners of the 11th Brussels Airport Aviation Awards – The Diamond Award to the 3,500 employees of Brussels Airlines

The Network Development Awards are presented to airlines who have developed new routes or have achieved a remarkable growth in passengers or cargo.

Air Arabia Maroc (runner-up TUI fly Belgium). Last year, Air Arabia Maroc added Fez to its network and generated a growth of 20% in the number of passengers. With 4 direct destinations in Morocco, Brussels Airport is one of their largest European hubs.

Hainan Airlines (runner-up Brussels Airlines). Since October, Hainan Airlines operates three direct flights per week to the new Chinese destination Shanghai. On 20 March, two weekly flights to Shenzhen will be added.

DHL Cargo (runner-up Emirates SkyCargo). In 2017, DHL Aviation opened the new ‘state of art’ hub at BRUcargo and also operated more flights in the last year.

Belgian customs (runner-up Brussels Airlines Cargo). The Belgian customs receive the Brucargo Award for all its initiatives and the collective projects to improve processes at Brucargo.

Panalpina (runner-up DHL Global Forwarding). The new ‘logistic provider’ award honours the logistic service provider which, in the past year, has distinguished itself in terms of growth or further development of its activities. The very first winner of this award is Panalpina, which has doubled its warehouse capacity, further digitised its services and has invested in the transport of perishable goods.

The Environment and Safety Awards are presented to airlines or partners that have made a particular contribution to the environment and to the on-going improvement of safety standards and awareness.

Tui fly Belgium. TUI fly has placed a large order for the new generation Boeing 737MAX. The first one landed at Brussels Airport on 30 January and in 2018 TUI fly Belgium will be operating four of these exceptionally quiet aircraft. They will also be adding a second Boeing 787 to the long-haul fleet.

Brussels Airfuels Services. Brussels Airfuels Services has a pro-active and constructive collaboration on all aspects of safety on the airport territory. It is not the first time that Brussels Airfuels Services has claimed this award; it won the award earlier in 2009.

The Performance and Punctuality Awards reward passenger and cargo airlines that are punctual and perform well. Punctuality is the best on-time performance, that is with an arrival or departure within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

The performance for cargo is calculated using the number of weekly flights, the number of destinations, the total quantity of cargo flown, the cargo per flight and the growth in cargo tonnage.

Ethiopian Airlines Cargo (runner-up Singapore Airlines Cargo). Ethiopian Airlines Cargo performed exceptionally last year in the total amount of cargo flown, cargo per flight and growth in cargo tonnage.

Iberia (runner-up Eurowings with an 87% punctuality performance). Iberia has a punctuality of 89% for the three daily flights to Madrid.

ANA All Nippon Airways (runner-up Qatar Airways with an 89% punctuality performance). All Nippon Airways has a punctuality of 92% for their daily flight to Tokyo.