The airport says it has prepared itself fully to ensure that the busy summer holidays run smoothly. There were many open vacancies. That number has since been reduced to 590. Hundreds of people have been recruited.
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With four million expected passengers, Brussels Airport is at three quarters of the number of passengers in the summer of 2019, i.e. before the corona crisis.
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Today promises to be the busiest day of the departure weekend. 72,000 passengers are expected, of whom 39,000 are departing passengers. It is also the first day since the start of the pandemic with a total of more than 70,000 passengers at Brussels Airport.
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In recent weeks, the airport has been hit by trade union actions at Brussels Airlines and Ryanair and by a national day of action by the trade unions. Moreover, new actions are imminent. The trade unions at Brussels Airlines announced on Monday that they are not ruling out new actions.
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