Brussels Airlines Flight Status, Hub News & Discussion

[Brummiegem]

Couldn't find a thread for this airline so made a new one.If there is one already started,feel free to merge.
We haven't had any news for this airline for a while,but whilst reading through some aviation news items online,I noticed a story that I don't think has been covered on here.
The story says that Brussells Airlines are replacing their remaining 4 Avro RJ100s this summer and bringing in 3 more A319s and 2 A320s.
Hopefully this means we will see these Airbuses at BHX in due course.However I am not sure how this route is doing right now,although I believe FlyBe still have a contract to operate Dash 8Qs on the BHX route,as well as others.
I have also seen the night stopping flight is usually an RJ so I would have thought we will see Airbuses on a regular basis later in the year.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Brussels is 4x daily, 3x AR1 and 1x Flybe Q400.

If it does swap to Airbus then I guess there is always the option to drop to 3x daily? That said look at how well Munich is doing since it changed from the Embraer.

One to keep an eye on.

 

[jfy1999]

Manchester was 3 daily A319/320 last time I looked, although I heard a fourth flight was to start at some point. Brussels Airlines competes with Ryanair daily flights to Charleroi at MAN. I think there's no reason BHX shouldn't also swap to an all Airbus operation at some point, but I think dropping to 3 daily might not be the best idea as there is always the possibility of Flybe taking over a second daily rotation if initial loads aren't too high.

Only a couple of years ago one BHX rotation from Brussels was operated by Austrian Dash 8s, although I don't know if this was a fifth daily rotation which was then scrapped (I think it might have been as I remember seeing an advert saying Brussels had 5 daily flights at BHX).

 

[Ray Finkle]

Brussels Airlines will have three flights combined into one tomorrow with SN1547 operating from Antwerp.

 

[jfy1999]

Brussels Airlines will have three flights combined into one tomorrow with SN1547 operating from Antwerp.

Do we know the aircraft type?

 

[justplanecrazy]

What time will it arrive at BHX?

 

[Ray Finkle]

It's due in to Birmingham at 19:30.

Not sure of the aircraft type. It may well be the usual AR1 as many of the passengers have been rerouted on other flights.

 

[jfy1999]

One daily Antwerp flight will operate again tomorrow, hopefully Brussels flights will resume after that, but the schedule has often changed and demand might have fallen off a cliff with the whole city on lockdown.

http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/30/sn-31mar16/

 

[Ray Finkle]

Yet more code shares with Bmi Regional adding one to Brussels Airlines flights.

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38...artnership-from-july-2016/?platform=hootsuite

 

[IanFarquharson]

BHX-BRU has never generated a high load factor but according to BHX it maintains high fares so very profitable (one of BHX most profitable routes).
Not sure how Brexit will affect this in the future,

 

[thunderchild]

Going off track slightly but was BHX ever served by Sabena?

 

[Barry Beeth]

Hazy memory says it was their "commuter subsidiary", DAT, I think?

F-28s maybe?

 

[Brum X]

Going off track slightly but was BHX ever served by Sabena?

Yes, from my memory Sabena operated this route with the same aircraft they use now.

 

[Brum X]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p...=4X2jV6zUD8WKgAb3-YKgAw#imgrc=_TZmFDXK8qFdSM:

 

[Ray Finkle]

Sabena A319 at BHX.

http://photos.plane-mad.com/0/large/127.jpg

I can't post the actual photo as it's copyright.

 

[thunderchild]

Thank you! Now why didn't I think to google?

 

[Brum X]

Thank you! Now why didn't I think to google?

You silly Billy

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Been discussing a Brussels Airlines liveried Flybe DH 8-400 in the CWL forum as it turned up there today on the Saturday Flybe Dusseldorf-Cardiff service. Looking at earlier posts in this thread it seems that one of the daily BHX-BRU rotations is on a DH 4-800. Is this a Flybe aircraft in Brussels Airlines livery?

Jethros suggests that Flybe have two DH 8-400s flying for Brussels Airlines - G-ECOI and G-ECOK (the one at CWL today).

 

[jfy1999]

Yes that's correct, although aircraft rotation often results in the Brussels Airlines-liveried Q400s being deployed on Flybe routes and vice versa.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Many thanks jfy.