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Brussels Airlines is the flag carrier and largest airline of Brussels with its hub and headquarters based at Brussels Airport.

Brussels Airlines is a member of the Lufthansa Group and a Star Alliance member and has over 300 flights daily with 49 aircraft.

The airline connects Europe to over 90 European and African destinations. In 2008, Lufthansa Group announced its purchase of a stake in Brussels Airlines. Lufthansa now owns 45% of Brussels Airlines.

Brussels Airlines flies to many destinations worldwide including Belfast, Kiev, Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Umea, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Tenerife, Seville, Malaga, Madrid, Jerez, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Newcastle, East Midlands, Alicante, Barcelona, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bucharest, Porto, Lisbon, Faro, Wroclaw, Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, Riga, Venice, Turin, Rome, Palermo, Olbia, Naples, Milan Malpensa, San Diego, San Juan, Tampa, Richmond, Nairobi, Monrovia, Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech and many others.

The airline is a member of the Star Alliance as well as the International Air Transport Association and the Association of European Airlines.

Brussels Airlines has codeshare agreements with many airlines including Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Malta, Jet Airways, Hainan Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, RwandAir, TAP Portugl, TAROM, Ukraine International Airlines and United Airlines.

Frequent Flyer Program

Brussels Airlines offers its customers a loyalty programme called LOOP, which allows frequent flyers to be rewarded for flying with Brussels Airlines.

Currently, the LOOP loyalty programme allows customers to earn 3 loops per euro spent on Brussels Airlines operated flights in Europe. 

Baggage

Brussels Airlines has different baggage allowances and fees for fare classes and the price also depends upon the route.

For flights within Europe including Russia and Morocco, passengers with Brussels Airlines has 1 piece of 12kg hand baggage and 1 small accessory and 1 piece of checked baggage with a maximum of 23kg.

On Long haul flights, Brussels Airlines operates an all new Business Class with full flatbeds and state of the art inflight entertainment, and a brand new Economy class with individual inflight entertainment touchscreens. Brussels Airlines and its intercontinental partners also offer long-haul codeshare flights to the United Arab Emirates, China, Thailand, India, North America and Canada.

News

September 2017

Brussels Airlines to end ARJ-100 operations in mid-4Q 17

Brussels Airlines has announced it will end commercial ARJ-100 operations with the onset of the Winter 2017/18 season. The Lufthansa Group unit said in a statement the type's last flight has been scheduled for Saturday, October 28, as flight SN2720 Geneva-Brussels National. Brussels Airlines has operated a total of twenty-four ARJ-100s over the years, all of which were ex-Delta Air Transport (QG, Brussels National) stock. At present, the fleet is down to just three aircraft used on shorthaul regional European flights from Brussels to Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, and Sweden. With the BAe Systems quadjets' retirement, Brussels Airlines has based its regional jet fleet on wet-leased capacity including three SSJ 100/95s sourced from CityJet (WX, Dublin Int'l) and two ERJ-145s sourced from bmi regional (BM, Aberdeen Dyce).

June 2017

it was announced that Brussels Airlines and company working to resurrect former Belgian regional carrier VLM Airlines were being Leisure carrier Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium (TCAB). Under the agreement, Brussels Airlines will take on TCAB’s 160 pilots and cabin crew, two Airbus A320s and their slot portfolio. TCAB’s remaining three A320s will be redeployed across the wider Thomas Cook Group.

Brussels Airlines will become the leading capacity provider for TCAB’s parent Thomas Cook Belgium, operating 90% of the tour operator’s flight capacity, carrying 90% of its passengers and building on a partnership that dates back 15 years. Brussels Airlines already provides 29% of Thomas Cook Belgium’s total flight requirement. The Brussels Airlines agreement is subject to consultation with the Belgian workers’ council and regulatory approvals. As a further part of the TCAB disposal, VLM Airlines’ Dutch parent company SHS Aviation will take full ownership of TCAB, acquiring all the shares in the company.

June 2017

Brussels Airlines announced it was set to carry 10,000 more passengers of the weekend of 25th and 26th June 2017 compared to the same weekend in 2016. The airline, Brussels Airlines, is preparing to welcome aboard nearly 90,000 passengers this coming weekend. This will be the first weekend of summer holiday departures, from 30th June to 2nd July. The traditional summer holiday destinations are the most in demand. The majority of Brussels Airlines customers are thus flying to Spain, Portugal, Greece or Italy. For long-haul flights, the cities of New York and Toronto are a tremendous success. The company stresses that during the last two weekends of July, it will carry more than 10,000 festival-goers from all around the world, going to the Tomorrowland festival. It is anticipated that additional staff will be needed by Brussels Airlines in Brussels Airport at Zaventem, to welcome passengers.

March 2017

Brussels Airlines announced a net profit of €15m, after a deduction of €2.5m – money that the airline will redistribute to its staff in recognition of the “tremendous efforts” made after the terrorist atrocity. rior to 22 March, Brussels Airlines was heading for a record year and was registering strong growth. Following the attacks, and the 12-day closure of Brussels Airport, however, there was a sharp decrease in business.

February 2017 

Brussels Airlines unveiled "Amare" aircraft

The A320 aircraft features a colourful bird on the fuselage, along with the words “Brussels Airlines – we fly you to the home of Tomorrowland”.

The image was airbrushed onto the aircraft over a period of two weeks by a team of eight artists, and passengers will also experience special mood lighting inside the aircraft, along with the “Tomorrowland Hymn” by Hans Zimmer when they board. The design is the fourth in the carrier’s “Belgian Icons” series, with other including “Rakcham”, dedicated to Tintin, and Magritte, inspired by the surrealist painter Rene Magritte.

Brussels Airlines announced a new Mumbai flight boosting its summer capacity

Brussels Airlines is boosting its summer capacity 8 percent year over year, including new service between Brussels and Mumbai five times a week beginning March 30, the carrier announced. Other new service includes weekly flights to Yerevan, Armenia, as well as increased service to Washington, D.C.; Toronto; Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport; Nantes, France; Naples, Italy; Warsaw; Athens; Accra, Ghana; and Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.

March 2017

Brussels Airlines announced it will absorb Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium to become the leading carrier for Thomas Cook Belgium

The Lufthansa Group unit said in a statement that under the proposed deal, it would assume all of TCAB's 160 pilots and cabin crew, all its flight slots, and two of its five A320-200s. TCAB’s remaining three aircraft will be redeployed across Thomas Cook Group's other carriers - Thomas Cook Airlines UK, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia, and Condor. A collective consultation process has also been initiated with TCAB’s workers’ council concerning plans to lay off forty groundhandling staff. In addition to the tie-up, Thomas Cook Group and Brussels Airlines will work together to assess new long-haul flights to sun and beach destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia over the next three years.

In April 2017, Brussels Airlines initiates flights to India. In May 2017 Brussels Airlines announced it had commenced operations of third Russian-built regional aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100) on May 9. The third SSJ 100 in the Belgian airline’s fleet (and the fifth for CityJet) is the aircraft with tail number EI-FWE (s.n. 95117). The aircraft was ferried to Brussels directly from Venice where it was customized by Russo-Italian joint venture SuperJet International. According to Flightradar24 the aircraft has already made several flights from Brussels to Berlin, Bologna, Birmingham and Warsaw. For Brussels Airlines the Russian-built regional aircraft are a replacement for four-engine Avro RJ100 jets.

Airbus A319

Airbus A320

Airbus A330

Avro RJ100

Bombardier DH8-Q400

Brussels Airport 

HUB Airport

Brussels Airport is an international airport of Brussels, the capital of Belgium and is also the hub airport of Brussels Airlines. It is also the hub airport for Abelag Aviation, Jetairfly, Saudia Cargo, Singapore Airlines Cargo and Thomas Cook Airlines. 

The airport has three runaways with a passenger capacity of 23 million every year. Other airlines which fly to and from Brussels Airlines include Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air Transat, Blue Air, British Airways, easyJet, Finnair, Hainan Airlines, TAP Portugal and Thai Airways.