Brussels Airlines has today announced some changes to their transatlantic route network, which are either good or bad depending on how you look at it. Brussels Airlines has announced that they'll offer summer seasonal flights between Brussels and Montreal in 2020. The route will operate 5x weekly from March 29 through October 24, 2020, so…
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I find it really odd that after this the only Lufthansa Group airline that will be left in Toronto is Lufthansa, meanwhile Montreal has service from Austrian, Swiss, Lufthansa and soon Brussels Airlines. First Austrian made the switch from Toronto to Montreal and now Brussels Airlines. I get that Air Canada flies to Zurich and Vienna from Toronto but is the market really not strong enough for a least a second daily flight on Swiss to Zurich or a flight to Brussels, at least seasonally? I wouldn't be surprised to see Air Canada start some sort of seasonal 4-5 times weekly route from Toronto to Brussels. It seems like Air Canada is focused on offering all the flights to Toronto and letting their partners serve Montreal.
Air Canada just announced flights from Toronto to Brussels this morning. Guess there is a shift in strategy.
Great. Brussels Airlines was a perfect choice for no fuel surcharges YYZ-BRU. Air Canada will now implement them. It is getting almost impossible getting to Europe from Toronto with Aeroplan without surcharges.
That’s all well and good but over the past 18 months Brussels business class award availability has been practically non existent on all routes - does anyone have a different experience?
@Doug1000
I actually kept seeing uite a lot of SN availability on Aeroplan, MileagePlus and Miles+Bonus for itineraries connecting YYZ to various European destinations and Israel. That was since February or even earlier. I haven't looked for any nonstop strictly between YYZ and BRU, so it could be one of those married segments BS that Star Alliance runs.
That's a long turnaround in YUL. The fact that the flight leave BRU so early makes it harder to make a connection. Still if there isn't any surcharge this makes for an interesting option out of YUL.
Flew BRU-IAD on Brussels in C and good service and hard product too. Glad to see more service expansion at IAD. Anyone know about a possible IAD-WAW service on LOT? They are the only European Star Alliance carrier that flies trans-atlantic but doesn't serve IAD. Seems like quite an opportunity.
Wow, YYZ is loosing both Austrian and Brussels to YUL within the upcoming year. Lufthansa Group is heavily relying on Air Canada their YYZ flights
How soon are new routes like this bookable (either paid flights or award flights)?