From professional designers to students in art schools: the designers are as diverse as the designs for the Airbus A320 itself, says Brussels Airlines. The most popular categories among the entries were cycling, art nouveau, Jean-Michel Folon and Adolphe Sax, as well as cartoon characters such as Lucky Luke and Marsupilami. “We evaluated the designs … Read more
A plane that was supposed to connect Marseille with Brussels this afternoon had to make an emergency landing this Friday, August 16. The reason? The plane hit a bird mid-flight. In this type of situation, “you must land at the nearest airport”, said the Brussels Airlines press release to our colleagues at Le Soir. 2024-08-16 … Read more
After the unions at Brussels Airlines threatened to strike at the beginning of this week, they are now announcing that the pilots will indeed stop work. They want to ground their aircraft from March 23 to 27. The strike is the result of a conflict between staff and management that has been going on for … Read more
The pilots at Brussels Airlines are threatening new strikes from March 23, for four days in a row and once or twice a month. The unions said this on Monday evening. Brussels Airlines warns that the entire company is being endangered in this way. Source: BELGA Yesterday at 7:50 PM There is a social conflict … Read more
Only seven out of ten Brussels Airlines flights will actually depart on Thursday, the result of the second strike day in a row. Unions and management did not reach an agreement on Wednesday evening about the workload and remuneration. Tommy Huyghebaert and Jan Claeys Today at 8:58 PM “We nevertheless put a very substantial proposal … Read more
According to Brussels Airlines, the vast majority of flights, about 8 in 10, will be able to continue on Wednesday. “We have contacted the employees and we are told that the vast majority want to fly,” says spokesman Nico Cardone. “We may cancel a flight here and there, for example for destinations that we fly … Read more
Not yet the full schedule has been resumed: initially it concerns twenty flights per week, only 30 percent of the flights that the Lufthansa Group previously offered to Tel Aviv. Lufthansa will fly four times a week from Frankfurt and three times a week from Munich, Austrian Airlines eight times a week from Vienna and … Read more
Brussels Airlines cabin crew would stop work on December 1, 2 and 3, the French-speaking Christian union CNE reported last Thursday. The company does not respect various collective labor agreements, it was said. The strike notice was submitted as a joint trade union front, but it soon became clear that the other trade unions were … Read more
A failure of the IT systems at Lufthansa causes chaos. Check-in and boarding systems are affected. Flights are delayed or cancelled. Thousands of Lufthansa passengers suffered delays and flight cancellations due to an IT failure on Wednesday morning. Among other things, the computer systems for checking in and boarding were affected by the breakdown, as … Read more
Peter Gerber will step down as CEO of Brussels Airlines with immediate effect. He switches to competitor Condor. His predecessor Christina Foerster takes over ad interim at Brussels Airlines. The German Gerber was less than two years (since March 2021) at the head of Brussels Airlines, which is part of the German Lufthansa group. Gerber … Read more