Tomorrowland 2013

[RoMax]

Ticket sales for Belgium will start on February 9, global sale on February 16.

Once again, Brussels Airlines is partner-airline number one. But with a total of 120 Tomorrowland-fligths (I assume, only a limited part of that are dedicated charter flights) they will also work with Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, United, Air Canada, TAP and Thai. Seems like Star Alliance got a very nice contract on this one
People from Sydney, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, San Francisco, Dubai, Moscow,... will all be able to book a package deal.

Besides air travel, there will be special Eurostar train services to/from London.

http://www.tomorrowland.be/en/globaljourney

[Acid-drop]

That makes it an event for the rich kids of the planet who can spend 2k on a nice weekend
Others will fly ryanair I guess

[sean1982]

Last year I remember we had A LOT of "tomorrowlanders" on various flights. Very good memories I have from those flights (and no, that was not sarcastic :p)

[RoMax]

On SN's facebook page:

Thanks to the huge succes of the Tomorrowland travel packages, we will exceptionally schedule Airbus A330 long haul aircraft to bring Tomorrowland people from Tel Aviv and Basle to Brussels. In total we'll fly 7,000 festival goers from all over our network to Tomorrowland. We're looking forward to it!

[andorra-airport]

A330 from BSL to BRU? Wow, would be nice if you could buy a separate ticket for that flight !

[airtrainer]

A330 from BSL to BRU? Wow, would be nice if you could buy a separate ticket for that flight !

Somebody asked on their Facebook page if flights could be booked, but the answer is no

[cathay belgium]

For the tommorowlandflight indeed the answer will be no!
That's very logic as they sold this in a ackage i presume..
But the A330 must pick them up in Basel so this flight would be almost empty!
Maybe a try to fly bru..bsl en gva..bru
Avgeektrip 3 of 2013
CXB

[sn26567]

Cathay, your imagination has no limits. Keep on!

[appel]

i think the aircraft will fly first to Tel Aviv then to BSL

[cathay belgium]

In this case,case closed...

CxB...

[andorra-airport]

In this case,case closed...

CxB...

Other option: Air China flies between MUC and ATH with an A330.....

[sn26567]

i think the aircraft will fly first to Tel Aviv then to BSL

That looks like a bad idea: the aircraft would come back half empty from a faraway destination to pick up pax at a close-by destination? Not very rational. I think there will be two A330 flights.

[andorra-airport]

i think the aircraft will fly first to Tel Aviv then to BSL

That looks like a bad idea: the aircraft would come back half empty from a faraway destination to pick up pax at a close-by destination? Not very rational. I think there will be two A330 flights.

I don't follow you. I think it will fly empty to TLV (no traffic rights?) and from there to BSL, to become 100% full towards BRU.

[sn26567]

brussels airlines Assigns A330 For Tomorrowland Basel & Tel Aviv July 2013 Charter Flights

brussels airlines for the second year in a row will offer special charter flights for “Tomorrowland”, a 3-day electronic-dance music festival in Boom, Belgium. In its statement posted on facebook on Monday 22APR13, the Star Alliance member says due to “huge success of the travel packages”, it will be operating Airbus A330-200 aircraft for Tomorrowland charter flights.

As per 23APR13 GDS timetable and inventory display, brussels airlines is scheduled to operate A330-200 aircraft on Brussels – Basel and Brussels – Tel Aviv route. Planned operational dates and schedules are listed below. These flight are being sold as part of tour packages provided by “Global Journey”.

Brussels – Basel

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SN1751 BRU0450 – 0605BSL 332 25JUL13
SN1763 BRU1050 – 1205BSL 332 25JUL13
SN1751 BRU1440 – 1555BSL 332 29JUL13
SN1763 BRU2025 – 2140BSL 332 29JUL13

SN1752 BSL0735 – 0850BRU 332 25JUL13
SN1764 BSL1320 – 1435BRU 332 25JUL13

In the GDS, SN only displays Basel departure on 25JUL13

Brussels – Tel Aviv
24JUL13

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SN1693 BRU1630 – 2140  TLV 332
SN1694 TLV2255 – 0235+1BRU 332

30JUL13

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SN1693 BRU0300 – 0810TLV 332
SN1694 TLV0915 – 1255BRU 332

Source: Airline Route

I am sure that SN1751 on 25 Jul will be pretty empty. An idea for the avgeek trip of Cathay Belgium? But a departure at 04:50 ...

[convair]

SN 1763 on July 25 should be pretty empty too; that one leaves at 10:50 !. The 2 flights to BSL on July 29 will have to return to BRU somehow, and probably empty too. That offers a lot of possibilities, if only SN is open to that idea.

[cathay belgium]

Already workin' on an avgeektrip!
SN contacted or possiblities!
Will keep everyone updated!
cxb

[sn26567]

The 2 flights to BSL on July 29 will have to return to BRU somehow, and probably empty too.

They are not in the GDS. Probably just positioning flights.

[air belgium]

Fingers crossed!

[convair]

On an A332, they should be able to offer a VERY attractive rate, the option being to fly them empty!

The return flights on the 29th may not be in the GDS now but I would think SN can still change that if they want.

[airtrainer]

Already workin' on an avgeektrip!
SN contacted or possiblities!
Will keep everyone updated!
cxb

So we keep our fingers crossed :thumbup: