Summer 2014: bumper year for network development

2014 is gearing up to be a bumper year for Brussels Airport. During Summer season, we will be welcoming three new airlines, and adding fifteen new routes to our network. This will bring the total of direct routes from BRU to 204.

The long haul network offers 41 destinations that are served by 176 weekly flights and 13 airlines. On average, 25 flights will take of for long haul destinations every day. New destinations in 2014 are Charlotte (US Airways) and Miami (Jetairfly).

The short haul network (Europe, Mediterranean) offers an impressive 163 destinations. New destinations in 2014 are:

• Bari, Cagliari, Krakow, Montpellier, Seville (Brussels Airlines)
• London Gatwick (easyJet)
• Newcastle (BMI Regional)
• Gdansk, Wroclaw (Eurolot)
• Santiago de Compostela (Vueling)
• Split (Thomas Cook Airlines)
• Thessaloniki (Aegean Airlines)
• Venice Treviso (Ryanair)

New airlines starting operations at Brussels Airport for the first time in 2014 are Eurolot, MeridianaFly and Ryanair, growing the number of passenger airlines to a total of 66.

Airlines that plan a large expansion of their operations in 2014 are:

• Brussels Airlines with 7 new destinations and two new A319
• Vueling with 7 new destinations and one based aircraft
• Ryanair with 10 new destinations and four based aircraft
• easyJet with 3 new destinations

Including 32 cargo destinations, the total number of routes at Brussels Airport is 231. Including cargo airlines, the number of airlines is 78. 

Long haul network

The network to North America counts 10 destinations and 8 airlines: Air Canada, Air Transat, Brussels Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Jetairfly, Jet Airways, United Airlines & US Airways.

Services to 5 destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico are operated by Jetairfly.

Sub-Sahara Africa is extensively served by Brussels Airlines with 37 weekly flights operating to 17 destinations. Other carriers are Ethiopian Airlines and Jetairfly, operating to another 3 destinations.

The Gulf region can be reached through Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways and Brussels Airport is directly connected with 4 destinations in Asia through Jet Airways, Hainan Airlines and Thai Airways International.

Short haul network

Two new routes in 2014 to the UK are Newcastle, 11 times weekly by BMI Regional, and London Gatwick, 12 times weekly by easyJet.

In the Nordic area both Icelandair and Thomas Cook Airlines will offer more flights to Reykjavik.

To France a new destination is Montpellier with Brussels Airlines, while more scheduled flights than ever are available to all three airports on the beautiful island of Corsica (Ajaccio, Bastia, Figari) and to Marseille. easyJet will launch new non-stop flights to Bordeaux.

The seat offer to Spain and Portugal is growing strongly in 2014 as both Vueling and Ryanair add more routes and flights. Santiago de Compostela is a new route from Brussels with 3 weekly Vueling flights, while Brussels Airlines restarts flights to Seville 4 weekly frequency.

Vueling will also offer new flights from Lisbon, Oporto, Ibiza and Palma, and increase the capacity from Barcelona, Alicante and Malaga. Ryanair will introduce flights from Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Malaga, Ibiza and Palma.

Also the network to Italy will be extended. New destinations are Bari and Cagliari by Brussels Airlines, and more flights are available to Florence, Catania and Palermo.

Vueling and Ryanair will both open new routes to Rome and Venice. New flights are also offered to Naples by easyJet and to Olbia by MeridianaFly.

In Central Europe Eurolot opens 2 new routes from Brussels to Gdansk and Wroclaw, and LOT Polish Airlines adds more flights to Warsaw.

Brussels Airlines recommences flights to Krakow, and will also enter the Warsaw market again.

In South Eastern Europe new routes are Split on the Croatian Rivièra (Thomas Cook Airlines) and Thessaloniki (Aegean Airlines). More growth also comes from Turkish Airlines (new daily flights to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport), Air Serbia (boosting Belgrade flights to daily) and Croatia Airlines. More flights are on sale to Athens by Aegean Airlines and Brussels Airlines.

Both Brussels Airlines and Jetairfly are also increasing the frequency of their flights to Tel Aviv.