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747-237 Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 11337 Location: Gordon Gekko's Boardroom
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:07 am Post subject: Brussels Airlines to end BOM service |
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https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/71020-brussels-airlines-to-pull-out-of-india-review-wet-leases
Brussels Airlines to pull out of India, review wet-leases
19.09.2018
Brussels Airlines has announced plans to further focus on its African network and to withdraw from the Indian market as part of the network realignment. In a press release, the carrier outlined plans to redeploy the A330-200 capacity currently used for a 5x weekly service linking Brussels with Mumbai Int'l. Instead, the carrier wil increase the frequency to Banjul from 4x weekly to daily.
The Mumbai service is the Belgian carrier's only long-haul route to Asia. Brussels Airlines will continue to offer service to Mumbai via its Lufthansa Group sister carriers Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int'l) and Swiss (LX, Zurich). _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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747-237 Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 11337 Location: Gordon Gekko's Boardroom
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Citing economic constraints, Belgium's national carrier Brussels Airlines will cease its Mumbai sector services from January 2019, it was announced here on Wednesday.
Accordingly, on January 7 next year, Brussels Airlines will operate its last flight on the Mumbai-Brussels sector, discontinuing operations for economic reasons.
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/brussels-airlines-to-bow-out-of-mumbai/1386170 _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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Caliguy Member
Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 723 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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With only JFK as year round NA (IAD and YYZ I think are seasonal), this was doomed to failure. Plus you have Air Italy coming who will no doubt discount heavily. I hope Brussels leaving, helps Jet out of BOM. Sad to see a EU carrier leave. Looks like the diamond industry could not sustain a flight (which most of us already knew). That said, BOM-BRU roundtrip O&D numbers saw good growth and reached about 65K which was surprising (someone posted the exact stat on another forum). |
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The_Goat Member
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 3260 Location: South of France
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Sad to see them go. They are a decent airline, and BRU is quite a compact airport to transit through.
I wonder why LH group doesn't want to continue the A330 wetleases. _________________ I don't know which is the more pampered bunch : AI's widebodies (the aunties) or Jet's widebodies (the planes).
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Nis Member
Joined: 23 Jan 2013 Posts: 17 Location: India
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Bringing up this topic as I recently had several family / friends travel through SN on the BOM-BRU route.
In three instances, I was told that the aircraft barely had 30 people in economy class on the journey. That talks about the business SN is doing on this route.
I used SN twice to travel to BOM and loved their service. Price was decent too. Sad to see them cancel this route. _________________ "Caution! Wake Turbulence" |
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