Starting today 18 June 2013, Brussels Airlines operates five flights
per week between Brussels Airport and Washington Dulles. The new
scheduled service aims at passengers travelling to the American capital
as well as passengers who connect to other destinations in the United
States via Washington.
After an absence of 12 years, a Belgian passenger aircraft will land in
Washington Dulles Airport today with Brussels Airlines flight SN515.
And that’s not the only novelty: SN515 is the first and only flight with
a late afternoon departure from Brussels Airport to the United States.
The inaugural flight will be sent off festively at Brussels Airport and
awaits a warm welcome in the American capital.
With this new scheduled service Brussels Airlines doesn’t only connect
the European and American capitals with each other: Brussels Airport en
Washington Dulles are two important hubs of the Star Alliance network
and this new service creates dozens of new connection possibilities. The
flight schedule allows for passengers to connect to many other
destinations in the US with other Star Alliance partners. A lot of
passengers combine the Washington flight with a connection to the West
Coast or big cities in the US. The first flight to Washington has
passengers on board who travel onwards to San Francisco, Mississippi,
Chicago, Indianapolis and Kansas City. The first flight departing from
Washington welcomes passengers that transfer through Brussels Airport to
other Brussels Airlines destinations like Oslo, Kinshasa, Abidjan,
Copenhagen and Douala.
This summer season Brussels Airlines flies 5 times per week to
Washington D.C. All flights are operated with Airbus A330-200 or
A330-300 aircraft that have recently been refurbished with comfortable
Business- and Economy Class cabins.
Long haul growth
The new Washington D.C. route is launched exactly one year after the
successful start of the New York JFK route, Brussels Airlines’ first
trans-Atlantic route. Washington is the second East Coast destination
for Brussel Airlines. The first commercial results are satisfying.
