Eight new destinations this summer season

29 March sees the start of the aviation summer season. Travellers flying from Brussels Airport will be able to choose from no fewer than 180 direct destinations this summer, including Chengdu, São Paulo, Kilimanjaro and Halifax.

Starting 26 March, Air China will operate three flights a week to the megacity of Chengdu in the southwest of China. 

From 2 June, LATAM Airlines will start three weekly non-stop flights to the Brazilian metropolis of São Paolo, the first direct passenger service to South America in 26 years.

In the same month, Brussels Airlines will launch two weekly flights to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Air Canada will begin offering three flights a week to Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada.

Within Europe, LOT Polish Airlines will offer four weekly flights to Gdansk from April, while Volotea will fly to Asturias (Oviedo) in northern Spain three times a week this summer.

This summer’s list of destinations also includes the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing (Hainan Airlines) and the Cypriot port city of Larnaca (AEGEAN), which were already launched in the winter season.

Intercontinental network continues to grow ​

With the addition of the new routes, the intercontinental network at Brussels Airport will include direct flights to 41 destinations. ​

• 8 destinations in North America: Atlanta, Chicago, Halifax, Montreal, Newark, New York, Washington and Toronto
• 1 destination in South America: São Paolo
• 4 destinations in the Gulf region: Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Jeddah
• 9 destinations in Asia: Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Singapore
• 19 destinations in sub-Saharan Africa: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Banjul, Bujumbura, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Entebbe, Freetown, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa, Lomé, Monrovia, Nairobi, Ouagadougou, Yaoundé

Read more in the press release