January 7
brussels airlines announced today their plans to increase service to African destinations as well as plans to optimize current flight operations to Africa. These changes will begin to take place as early as February.
The biggest changes involve increased frequencies to existing destinations:
Dakar, Senegal will see daily service beginning with the Summer Timetable. Previously, Dakar was serviced 4 times a week.
Conakry, Guinea will see service increase from 2 times a week to 3 times a week. The flights will operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Cotonou, Benin will see service increase from 2 times a week to 3 times a week. The flights will operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Freetown, Sierra Leone will see service increase from 2 times a week to 4 times a week. The flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
brussels has also worked with partner airlines Korongo Airlines and Senegal airlines to help brussels passengers reach additional destinations within Africa. In addition, these airlines will optimize their own timetables to help improve passenger connections to and from brussels’ flights. Some of the cities that will be involved in these improvements include Banjul, Ouagadougou, Lomé, Douala, Yaounde, Kinshasa, Luanda, Lubumbashu, Mbuji-Mayi and Johannesburg.
For more information on brussels airlines service to Africa, please visit their dedicated Africa webpage.
One thing I’ve noticed about SN and award tickets is that I never see anything but Y class availability for SN from BRU to/from Africa. Is it just me that can’t find C class award availability?
@David, it’s not you. They are hard seats to find. what are you using to check inventory? which FF program do you belong to?
I usually just check UA. I’m part of UA and DL mostly. I do enjoy the updates you continue to post with various routes. Always got my eyes open for any NBO or EBB route updates. DL and UA are the only 2 options I can use to get there (without paying YQ on AA). There’s a EBB-BRU direct, but not once have I found a C seat and it’s way to long in Y.