Brussels Airlines will offer a total of 2021 destinations in the summer flight schedule 78. The focus this year is on tourist destinations. A connection between Brussels and Frankfurt am Main is scheduled to begin in August 2021. This will also serve as a feeder for Eurowings Discover.

On the long-haul route, the Lufthansa subsidiary will serve 18 destinations in Africa and North America. The remaining 60 destinations are on the short and medium-haul routes with a focus on Greece, Portugal and Spain.

From April Brussels Airlines will gradually reopen its European network with a focus on vacation travel. The first routes to be reactivated are Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Faro, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Kos, Krakow, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Napoli, Nice, Oslo, Porto, Prague , Rome, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Valencia, Vilnius and Warsaw.

From May there will also be Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Ibiza, Milan Linate, Moscow, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Split and Vienna. Starting in June, Brussels Airlines will increase its flight frequencies to these destinations, including Bari, Birmingham, Corfu, Florence, Gothenburg, Saint Petersburg, Yerevan and Zakynthos.

From August 2, 2021, flights between Brussels and Frankfurt am Main are to be offered. Brussels Airlines will take over two daily rotations from Lufthansa. The aim is for the two hubs to be better linked. Belgian passengers in Frankfurt should also be able to switch to Eurowings Discover.

Long haul is slowly reactivated

Washington DC and New York are scheduled to operate from June 14, 2021. Montreal as of June 15, 2021. These will be Brussels Airlines' first North Atlantic flights since March 21, 2020.

As for the African network, Brussels Airlines is gradually increasing the flight frequencies to all African destinations from mid-June towards a high point when the West African destinations Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), Banjul (Gambia) and Dakar (Senegal) are supposed to be daily Tobe offered. In Central and East Africa, Douala and Yaounde (both in Cameroon), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Entebbe (Uganda) will also be served daily. Luanda enters reactivated after more than a year. From June 15th, the Angolan city will be served three times a week. Compared to today, the weekly frequencies in the long-distance network will triple.