Brussels Airport is an international airport and serves as Belgium’s national airport. It has a clear objective: the privileged partner for smart connectivity solutions, thinking and acting in a sustainable & customer-oriented way. It connects the European capital from Brussels Airport to more than 85 destinations, 17 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company employs 3,100 people and operates 41 aircrafts. In March 2006, British Airways’ Boeing 777-200 flew the longest commercial non-stop flight (17,157 kilometres) in 18 hours and 45, from Brussels to Melbourne.
As an ambassador of its country, Brussels Airlines brings the world to Belgium and the best of Belgium to the world, including through collaborations with Belgian celebrity chefs, Belgian culinary products and the Belgian Icons, specially painted aircraft that honour a Belgian iconic person, team or event to promote Belgian culture worldwide.
It offers cargo capacity on all its flights, commercialised by Lufthansa Cargo. The airline handles the day-to-day maintenance of its aircraft fleet by itself.
Brussels Airlines is one of the four network airlines of the Lufthansa Group (Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa and SWISS) and a member of Star Alliance. The company was founded in 2002 and is 100% owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
