BRU Summer 2025: news, new routes, airlines

[VEX802]

TUIfly Belgium: Brussels – Tenerife South: Final flight on 2 November 2025

[koninckske]

TUIfly Belgium: Brussels – Tenerife South: Final flight on 2 November 2025

No flights (all destinations) on sale yet for the winter season at TUIfly Belgium. Normally they release them end of March if I remember correctly.

[HQ_BRU_Lover]

Just because no release winter schedule yet, I think Tenerif is in the top 3 of leisure destinations ex-BRU.

[Miqvell]

It can be that ìn the future we only will see the B789 of Hainan instead of also the smaller B788. Hainan decided to sell all their smaller B788.

Hainan never flies its 788 to Brussels fortunately.

Yes they do actually...

789 yes
788 no...

[Kapitein]

Hainan never flies its 788 to Brussels fortunately.

Yes they do actually...

789 yes
788 no...

It’s rare but they use them to BRU.
Last Sunday the flight to SZX was with a 788

[Atlantis]

Time for the update:

Let's start by adding that there is a completely new long haul route in the pipeline to the East. It's waiting for the final approval. FYI it's not Air China.
There is also an increase expected on an existing route to the East. Also here is to wait for the final approval.

Vueling: many increases on existing routes from 1 or 2 flights extra. Seville is suspended. Vueling will introduce also their 236 pax
seater on the BCN-BRU route. Daily as from 30th April and 6 weekly as from 22nd June.
New flight to Florence as from 1st April with 3 weekly flights.

Delta Airlines: decrease JFK-BRU from daily to 4 weekly flights
New route to ATL as from 11th June '25 with 3 weekly flights

United: second daily flight EWR-BRU as from 27th June.

Transavia Holland: 12 destination with 44 weekly flights

Transavia France: new flight to Montpellier twice a week as from 10th April '25. New flights to Bordeaux as from 18th April with 2
weekly flights.

TUI: new route to Split. Flights to Samos, Tunis, Thessaloniki, Varna, Ponta Delgada, Larnaca and Montego Bay suspended.

Turkish Airlines: increase from 28 to 32 weekly flights to Istanbul. On certain days 5 daily flights.

Brussels Airlines: increasing number of flights to certain Mediterranean destinations and Africa. The seasonal flight to IAD will end a
month earlier in September and will go down also between 1st April and end of May from 5 to 3 weekly flights.
New flight to Funchal/Madeira as from 4th April with 1 weekly flight

Wideroe: extra flight to Bergen as from 28th June till 15th August. 3 Flights weekly

Air Canada: Toronto - Brussels goes down from 5 to 3 weekly flights as from 30th March till 29 May. As from 29 May it will be 4 weekly
flights with a mix of B788-9

Cathay Pacific: 4 new weekly flights to Hong Hong as from 1st August with the A350

Flyone: 2 weekly flights to Yerevan.

Norwegian: new flight to Oslo as from 22nd June with 2 weekly flights. As from mid August it will be increased to 3 weekly flights.

Easyjet: new flights to LIN and FCO with 2 daily flights to each destination as from 30th March. New flight to Bordeaux as from 30th
March and this twice a week.

Juneyao: increase to 4 weekly flights as from 31st March to Shanghai.

Chalair: Brive-Brussels seasonal as from 26th June with 2 weekly flights

Nouvelair: increase from 3 to 4 weekly flights to Tunis as from 30th March.

Finnair: Upgrade of aircraft as from 3rd April with a mix of A330 and A350, twice weekly

Air Arabia: Tetouan - Brussels with an extra flight a week as from 5th April

[nordikcam]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

[Miqvell]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

[BRU_AV_123]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

[lumumba]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

You are right it will be Air India in my opinion but I don't know if it will be Mumbai or Delhi ?!
The hub is Delhi if I'm not mistaken but Mumbai would be a bigger market between Belgium and India.

[BRU_AV_123]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

For the increase in frequency, I am guessing this could as well be Singapore Airlines. Took the flight a few times and they seem to be doing more than ok (LFs around 75-80 % each time).

[Miqvell]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

Not really, around 13k pax both ways before Covid, even below Vietnam.
But remember that Taipei is still a Star Alliance hub.

[JOVAN2]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

I hope it will be an Indian airline.
This country is booming and future looks good.
We have 1000s and 1000s of qualified Indian people working in Belgium and in BRU catchment area incl. NL, western D and Paris + North France.

[Atlantis]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

Exactly, it's the fourth destination for Hainan to Chongqing. And the increase is not for NH but also for Hainan who wants to go daily to Shanghai

[nordikcam]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

So BAC still has a lot of work to do (India - Taiwan and Korea) but let's not deny our pleasure...even if they are all morning flights and no evening flights! I am surprised by the non-increase in frequency of NH to Japan.

[Miqvell]

Thank you for this summary. I assume the frequency increase of an existing route is NH to Tokyo...as for the other one which will not be Air China...could it be AI ?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

So BAC still has a lot of work to do (India - Taiwan and Korea) but let's not deny our pleasure...even if they are all morning flights and no evening flights! I am surprised by the non-increase in frequency of NH to Japan.

NH was supposed to increase from winter but nothing confirmed unfortunately.

[lumumba]

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

Exactly, it's the fourth destination for Hainan to Chongqing. And the increase is not for NH but also for Hainan who wants to go daily to Shanghai

I don't understand all these flights to China, we are almost at war with China and people continue to travel there?

[BRU_AV_123]

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

Exactly, it's the fourth destination for Hainan to Chongqing. And the increase is not for NH but also for Hainan who wants to go daily to Shanghai

So that means 3 daily flights for Hainan on six days of the week. Very impressive! It makes sense for them to add Chongqing considering they want to make it their primary hub and it is getting more attention as tourist destination, but to as well increase Shanghai to daily comes as a surprise for me (total 11 weekly with Juneyao)! Any idea on the load factors for their current flights at BRU?

Either Air India or Eva to Taipei.
BAC has been working on both for a while.

Is their enough demand to warrant a flight to Taipei?

Could it be the 4th destination of Hainan (Chongqing)? Saw this passing by: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/67a ... 976340866b

Not really, around 13k pax both ways before Covid, even below Vietnam.
But remember that Taipei is still a Star Alliance hub.

I fly often to Taipei and all flights from Europe (EVA, CI) to Taipei are always packed, so it would make sense for EVA to add some more destinations, but I assume there are more logical destinations (more popular with Taiwanese tourists) for them to serve first prior BRU (Rome, MAD, BCN, PRG, CPH, ZRH ...).

[remstorm]

I took the Juneyao flight to Shanghai in October 2024.
The flight was full from Bru, on the return the LF was 90%, 90% Chinese people.

[VoloperTe]

Hi everybody,

Sorry i can't see Winter 2025 Topic, from 7 December 2025 until January 2026 Euroairlines launch 1 weekly flight from Brussels to Punta Cana with World2Fly Portugal A330-300 aircraft.

Source : Aeroroutes