BRU Summer 2016: news, new routes, airlines

[nordikcam]

According to ML-Tours Brussels Airlines will start flights to Al Hoceima on 11 june 2016.

http://mltours.nl

But will it be a scheduled route or a charter?

It will be flight SN 1137 and back SN 1138...charter flight I guess !

[crew1990]

I did a quick check on the Brussels Airlines website to find out the destination for the summer and i did a few discoveries.

It seems that the flights to tenerife and gran canaria are only during the winter season. It's a shame but in the mean time it reduce the differences in number of flight between summer and winter.

I din't find any flight to Bordeaux so I guess the flight didn't work last year.

And finally I didn't found and flights operated by SN to Malta which is weird to me as the route got an upgrade last year.

[Avroflyer]

I did a quick check on the Brussels Airlines website to find out the destination for the summer and i did a few discoveries.

It seems that the flights to tenerife and gran canaria are only during the winter season. It's a shame but in the mean time it reduce the differences in number of flight between summer and winter.

I din't find any flight to Bordeaux so I guess the flight didn't work last year.

And finally I didn't found and flights operated by SN to Malta which is weird to me as the route got an upgrade last year.

I'd suggest you keep an eye for SN's press conference,some exciting things will be announced with regards to summer 2016

[crew1990]

I don't doubt of that, we already receive a couple of interesting information internally. But I'm exited to know more about this Do you know when will be this press conference, it seem there will be many thing to say!

[Avroflyer]

Judging from what I've read my educated guess is somewhere in November but I don't know for sure so we'll have to wait and see

[airbuske]

Again rumours that Jet Airways will finally move from BRU to AMS as from next summer.
They would keep one route to BRU : DEL or BOM.

Oppurtunity for Air India , Brussels Airlines , Air Canada ?

[skumfiduse]

SAS resumes 3rd frequency on Oslo-Brussels route. Flights operated by CR9, which is uncommon outside Copenhagen. Either this is one of the new Cityjet-planes or they have redefined the use of their Cimber aircraft.

SK4741 Oslo-Brussels 1255-1450 12345-- CR9
SK4742 Brussels-Oslo 1520-1705 12345-- CR9

Effective 18 April 2016

[Boeing767copilot]

FR cancels route BRU-VRN

EZY cancels routes BRU-TLS and BRU-LGW

[brusselsairlinesfan]

FR cancels route BRU-VRN

EZY cancels routes BRU-TLS and BRU-LGW

Wooow... quite surprising if you ask me! How can we explain that?!?!

[sn26567]

FR cancels route BRU-VRN

... but opens CRL-VRN

[brusselsairlinesfan]

FR cancels route BRU-VRN

... but opens CRL-VRN

So... repositioning but not a "true" cancellation! FR never retreats

[nordikcam]

But good job for SN on BRU TLS

[crew1990]

EasyJet is really diserting the airport they closed Lyon last year and now London (I knew it couldn't work) and finally Toulouse wich let Brussels Airlines the only player on that route!

I guess it will free a little bit the low-cost stand for Ryanair

[Inquirer]

Wow, after pulling out of Lyon last season, now Toulouse!
I can only guess they must really feel the pressure from the new low fare products of Brussels Airlines, thus dropping pretty much anything which isn't a multiple daily like Milan, Geneva, Nice one by one.
I wonder how much longer they will be able to hold on to Basel then, because I occasionally use that airport as an alternative to ZRH (when LX tries to charge me over €1,000 for a day return) and I've noticed their loads on this route to have decreased as well to the benefit of the Brussels Airliners flight.

[Avroflyer]

3 new SN routes annouced today : Belfast (5x/week) , Heraklion (2x/week) & Jerez (2x/week)

[RoMax]

As said Belfast City, Jerez and Crete/Heraklion as new destinations. Gran Canaria and Tenerife will become year-round after their launch this winter (there were some doubts about these two on this forum recently, so now it's known they'll be offered in summer 2016).

Jerez: 2/week from May to September, flights on days 3 and 7
Crete/Heraklion: 2/week as from Easter holidays, days 2 and 6. SN also notes that they'll fly almost daily to Athens in S16 and that flights can be combined with Crete. So you can fly to Athens, and fly back from Crete for example, if you travel within Greece.
Belfast City: year-round, to be served 5/week on days 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7

Edinburgh: 4 extra weekly flights
Lisbon and Porto: 3 additional frequencies to both
Alicante: from 3 to 4 weekly flights
Malaga and Venice: more flights on peak days
Also more flights on Vilnius and Manchester.
Seats will be increased on Gothenburg, Toulouse, Oslo, Marseille, London, Barcelona and Faro by using larger aircraft.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines_press_r ... xt-summer/

[crew1990]

Looks like this year they prefer to increase the number of frequency instead of adding many new destinations. To me it's a good decision but I hope we will hear something for the long haul.

[RoMax]

Looks like this year they prefer to increase the number of frequency instead of adding many new destinations. To me it's a good decision but I hope we will hear something for the long haul.

Long haul deserves a dedicated press conference of course

For more information on the Belfast route (including timetable):
http://www.belfastcityairport.com/News/ ... O-BRUSSELS

The schedule surprises me a bit as it limits transfer options to a number of high frequency European routes due to the late arrival back in BRU. I assume that has to do with the utilization of the Avro fleet which for now didn't allow them to fly the route in the busy morning peak. Which btw for me is also a surprise, that they'll fly the route with an Avro. I would have expected a wet-lease operation on this route.

[sn26567]

SN introduced many new summer routes in 2014 and 2015. I asked Lars Redeligx whether these new routes would be maintained in 2016. The answer was positive for most of these routes, with a few exceptions like Montpellier. He mentioned that most of these routes haver been very successful.

Lars Redeligs, Chief Commercial Officer of Brussels Airlines at the press conference

[crew1990]

But still Malta is not bookable anymore ( actually yes but with air malta)