20 years after Sabena: how is Brussels Airlines fare in again turbulent times for aviation?

When a new and smaller airline rose from the ashes of Sabena, the ambitions may have been modest, but they were there. Belgium had lost its flying icon and the dream may have finally shattered, but the desire to make a difference in international aviation, especially in Africa, was sky-high. At the time, in November 2001, no one thought that the international aviation industry could be steered through an even greater crisis than the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States that year. The figurative drop for Sabena would not be a drop 20 years later with corona, but a tsunami that raged through the sector without parallel. Sabena’s little brother, Brussels Airlines, would be tested to the limits.

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