The Belgian airline Brussels Airlines is expanding its flight service to Africa: from the summer of 2025, the airline will operate 56 flights to the continent every week.
Brussels Airlines is set to increase its services to sub-Saharan Africa by 10% after the company announced it was deploying its 11th long-haul aircraft.
The carrier will start operating routes to Nairobi (Kenya) and Accra (Ghana) for daily rotations. Banjul (Gambia), Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Conakry (Guinee) will see additional frequencies. Dakar (Senegal) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast) will be served with more direct flights instead of triangular flights.
From March 2025, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will get daily direct flights. Up until now, the Congolese capital was connected five times weekly with a direct flight and twice weekly with an intermediate stop in Luanda (Angola).
Flagship route
"Kinshasa is without a doubt our flagship route. The history of aviation in Belgium began almost 100 years ago with the ambition of connecting Kinshasa and Brussels via air," said Brussels Airlines CEO Dorothea von Boxberg.
To operate all flights to Kinshasa non-stop, connections to Luanda are consolidated within the Lufthansa Group. Lufthansa will operate three weekly direct flights between Luanda and Frankfurt, to ensure connectivity to Angola.
The long-haul network of Brussels Airlines also consists of two destinations in the United States: New York (JFK) and Washington DC (IAD).
