Brussels Airlines

[User0001]

As of the winter timetable, Brussels Airlines has moved to an all A319/A310 operation at MAN.

With this, the Avro 100/BAE 146 is no longer a scheduled type into Manchester.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

Big changes coming here. Lufthansa is to buy the remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines to achieve 100% ownership. The price paid for this 55% is just EUR2.7 Million ... extremely low. Though Lufthansa has made outstanding loans to them in the past. Lufthansa will gain control of Brussels Airlines' fleet of 51 aircraft. Initial reports suggest that the plan is to merge the operation with Eurowings rather than to retain a standalone country-specific brand as the group has done with Austrian and Swiss.

One hopes that the only change at MAN will be the branding painted on the MAN-BRU aircraft. But a change in fare-structures to those offered by Eurowings will be a very positive move for customers. Brussels Airlines fares can be off-puttingly expensive at times. They've made life even easier than it should have been for Ryanair's MAN-CRL route.

 

[User001]

Given Eurowings is moving to an all A319/320 fleet for short haul, won't make many changes to MAN as we seem to be all A319/A320 on the BRU flights anyway.

 

[David_itl]

Sukhoi SuperJets to be used from June per airlineroute

 

[Aceshigh]

Interesting. Is that good or bad
an increase or decrease ?

 

[Jerry]

Interesting. Is that good or bad
an increase or decrease ?

A decrease as don't they use A320s and A319s on the route?

 

[User001]

SSJ only on one flight

 

[ethanegcc]

W17 will see Brussels Airlines operating the Sukhoi Superjet 4 weekly.

 

[Scottie Dog]

From 31st March Brussels Airljnes will switch operations to Terminal 2.

 

[EGCC_MAN]

The Brussels Airlines website is showing the late morning Saturday BRU-MAN-BRU service being operated by Air Nostrum CRJ1000 in the New Year. I'm not sure when the changeover is, but presumably this replaces the CityJet SSJ100 operation which BEL indicated they were unhappy with.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Flights will switch to T2 with effect from 30th April.

 

[David_itl]

A pruning of frequency

Brussels – Manchester Reduce from 19 weekly to
15MAR20 – 21MAR20 16 weekly
22MAR20 – 28MAR20 15 weekly
https://www.routesonline.com/news/3...ddle-east-frequency-adjustment-as-of-06mar20/

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of airlineroutes

Brussels – Manchester eff 01JUL20 4 weekly