by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 10, 2015 | Brussels, Featured, Route Announcements |
Brussels Airlines has announced that it will begin service between Brussels and Accra, Ghana beginning on October 26. The new service will operate 4 times a week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday) and will be flown by an A330 aircraft, which in my opinion sports one of the best Business Class cabins that you’ll find in Europe!
The details of the new service are as follows:
SN277 will depart Brussels at 11:00a, arriving in Accra at 4:45p
SN278 will depart Accra at 9:40p, arriving in Brussels at 5:25a the following morning.
In addition to this announcement, ‘SN’ has also indicated that they will be increasing service to existing African destinations.
Beginning in September the following changes are set to take place:
Lome, Togo will increase from 2x/week to 4x/week.
Cotonou, Benin will increase from 2x/week to 3x/week.
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso will increase from 2x/week to 3x/week.
Additionally, Brussels will stop flying to Nairobi, Kenya later this year due to the fact that Lufthansa will launch service between Nairobi and Frankfurt on October 27, 2015.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 9, 2015 | Brussels, Cargo, Featured, Industry News |
Brussels Airlines has modified their Cargo policy to ban the transport of any hunting trophies aboard their aircraft with immediate effect. This bans covers their entire network.
What makes Brussels’ announcement so important is the fact that they directly serve 20 African destinations. With this newly revised policy the impact should reverberate throughout the continent.
Brussels now joins Lufthansa, South African, Singapore, and Emirates with recent policy announcements that ban the transport of Hunting Trophies, regardless whether they were harvested legally or not.
It is encouraging to see airlines taking on an important role in an attempt to discourage the practice of hunting large African game simply for the purpose of harvesting a trophy. Also encouraging is the fact that these transport bans are going beyond just the ‘obvious’ animals such as Rhino, Elephants, Lions, Tigers, and the like.
With the prevalence of poaching and other questionable hunting ethics, I for one am glad that Airlines are beginning to take an ‘absolute’ position on the matter.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 4, 2015 | Brussels, Featured, Route Announcements |
Beginning September 14, Brussels Airlines will begin service between Brussels, Belgium and Bremen, Germany.
The flights will operate daily Monday through Friday under the following schedule:
Flight SN2496 will depart Bremen at 7:00p, arriving in Brussels at 8:10p
Flight SN2597 will depart Brussels at 9:00p and arrive in Bremen at 10:10p
According to Brussels Airlines, this will be the first time that Brussels and Bremen will have direct service between one another.
