BRU winter 2014 - 2015: latest news, routes, airlines

[Atlantis]

Washington is a waste as United operates a daily flight already while Boston has no service to Brussels and there is such a market here!!!
Do you realize that in summer Icelandair operates 3 Boeing 757s a day out of Boston!
Emirates just started with a daily 777 and its already almost full…
Turkish is starting 5x a week A330s in a couple of weeks…
It would be far more interested to have a nonstop to Brussels from Logan than having 2 from Dulles...

I would like to give a comment on the several posts about the flight to IAD operated by SN.

First of all I don't know if the members who are giving bad comments were really taken also this flight. If so, then they are not honest and only set SN in a bad daylight.

I took in meantime this flight already many times.

First of all, for business people it's a good choice to take SN. They can still work more then half a day at the office before coming to the airport. At IAD for the return flight, they have a full day there.

The flight to IAD is Always stopped at 120 pax as cargo to IAD is much more important. At my last flight, we were only with 80 pax on board but we needed to call the fuel truck again because we were too heavy loaded with cargo.

Of course, the slots could be better as United is taking the transit pax of SN at BRU. SN has less transit pax on board, only those ones of the arriving noon flights out of Africa.

But with the flight coming from IAD it's the opposite. The flight is Always overbooked. Even the crew seats, at the back of the aircraft, are Always taken. On this leg, there is less cargo on board.

So in general speaking, yes, this IAD flight is doing very well and this in the mix of pax and cargo.

[BRU]

Could understand that they take as much cargo as possible to compensate less passengers, but not that they would stop taking passengers to have more cargo. Yields on that route are not high enough to make it interesting to do so.

B.air will also change routing IAD: timing almost same as UA and only in summer, no longer in winter.

[Atlantis]

You mean that during the Summer they will more close to UA but during the Winter they will remain their old schedule?

Like I wrote before, the return is Always overbooked. Only the flight to IAD has a restriction in number of pax. Info from ops itself

[BRU]

Summer schedule will be close to UA operation. Route will be suspended during winter.

[SabenaForever]

Vueling from mid-October 2014 is adding 3 routes to BRU.
Planned operation as follow:

Brussels – Catania eff 25OCT14 1 weekly
Brussels – Florence eff 27OCT14 4 weekly
Brussels – Prague eff 24OCT14 4 weekly

Source: airlineroute

[MrG4]

Hi all, maybe i forgot to introduce my self, sorry.
I'm italian and right now i'm living in belgium. I'm a member of italian aviation , and i like to join your forum as well.

the flight code will be :
BRU-CTA VY6524
CTA-BRU VY6525

from 25th october : Bru-Cta 10:45-13:20/ Cta-Bru 14:00-16:55 (-----6-)
T.O.?

from 27th october
FLR-BRU
1------ 06:30-08:20 VY6668
--3---- 09:05-10:55 VY6668
------7 09:10-10:55 VY6668
----5-- 10:25-12:15 VY6668

BRU-FLR
--3---- 11:30-13:10 VY6669
------7 11:30-13:15 VY6669
----5-- 12:50-14:30 VY6669
1------ 12:55-14:35 VY6669

[sn26567]

Welcome to our forum, MrG4.

[MrG4]

Thank you very much

[cHabu]

Copied from the Scramble forum, so it is in Dutch.

If this needs to be in English, sent me a pm.

Full credit goes to Niels.

Arke vlootnieuws:

De OO-JAP 767-300ERW van JetAirFly wordt gedurende de gehele winter op Amsterdam gestationeerd. Deze machine gaat de Florida operatie voor haar rekening nemen. Op maandag AMS-BRU-MIA-AMS en op vrijdags/zaterdags AMS-SFB-MIA-BRU-MIA-SFB-AMS. Ook de donderdagvlucht naar Punta Cana en Jamaica gaat door deze machine gevlogen worden (AMS-PUJ-MBJ-AMS). Al deze vluchten worden uitgevoerd onder Arke vluchtnummers. Of de belettering aan de buitenzijde wordt aangepast is mij nog niet bekend. Wel heeft deze machine GEEN Premium of Star Classe, en wordt er met Belgische crew gevlogen.

De Boeing 767-300ERW's PH-OYI en PH-OYJ voeren 1x per week een gecombineerde vlucht uit van TUI Benelux naar MBA-ZNZ. Routing AMS-BRU-MBA-ZNZ-BRU-AMS.

Na Maart 2015 gaat de OO-JAP terug naar de lessor. De 767-300ERW's van Arke zullen ook enkele vluchten per week vanaf Brussel uitvoeren.

[Stij]

Quick translation, courtesy of the moderators!

OO-JAP will be based in AMS during winter to operate flights between BRU and AMS to MIA, SFB, PUJ and MBJ. Arke will fly with its planes between AMS, BRU, MBA, ZNZ. In 2015, OO-JAP will return to the lessor.

Cheers,

Stij

[Konus]

When OO-JAP gone in March 2015, will there be a second Dreamliner for Jetairfly to operate longhaul ?

[tangolima]

Hello

Tunisair to start BRU-NBE flights on 28OCT2014

Greetings,

[SabenaForever]

Chicago – Brussels eff 26OCT14, UA 3-class 767-300ER replaces 777-200ER, daily service

[sn26567]

Brussels Airlines is launching Riga as of Winter 2014-2015 (start of the season: 26OCT14).

Code: Select all

BRU 1350 RIX 1730 X6 AR1
RIX 1805 BRU 1955 X6 AR1

[air belgium]

Any chance to fly OO-JAP 767 in Europe? Many thanks.

[flywithUs]

Brussels Airlines is launching Riga as of Winter 2014-2015 (start of the season: 26OCT14).

Code: Select all

BRU 1350 RIX 1730 12345.7
RIX 1805 BRU 1955 12345.7

According to SN's booking engine, their flights begin 14DEC14, is it because of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union? If so, any chance it will last thereafter?

[crew1990]

if the flight is a success sure it wil last thereafter

[RoMax]

According to SN's booking engine, their flights begin 14DEC14, is it because of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union? If so, any chance it will last thereafter?

I can find flights as from Sunday 26 October (first flight SN2367 to RIX with RJ100). Of course the fact that Latvia is preparing for the EU Presidency is a perfect moment for SN to enter the market as demand for air traffic to BRU will increase significantly. But I'm sure they use this as an extra starting-up power to generate enough market presence to sustain the route after the EU Presidency moves to another country again, instead of wanting the route only temporary.

After Vilnius several years ago, this is another nice addition in Eastern Europe, in combination with Krakow and Warsaw that return to the offer this summer, I hope they can generate enough market presence in the Poland/Baltic region, because that's an important one.

[Inquirer]

Will they continue code sharing with Air Baltic on the route?
And will Air Baltic continue serving the route to BRU twice daily?
With 3 flights a day, that's quite a convenient schedule for day trips if indeed they continue the code share.

[RoMax]

Yes they will continue codesharing, SN will continue to put its code on the two daily Air Baltic flights (though it sometimes seems to be only 1 daily instead of 2 daily) and Air Baltic will codeshare on the SN flight. So yes it seems that at least for the majority of the winter season, both airlines will offer 3 daily flights on weekdays.