This weekend, Brussels Airlines will say goodbye to the AVRO Jet, which was the first plane the company ever flew. On Saturday, a few aviation fans took the last commercial flight of the Avro for Brussels Airlines to Geneva. Today, the airline staff said goodbye to the plane type that carried millions of passengers over the years, where hundreds of pilots and flight attendants started their careers, and where several Brussels Airlines engineers worked while it was being fixed.

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With the landing of flight SN2720 from Geneva to Brussels at 19:40 yesterday evening, the end of the AVRO era for Brussels Airlines has come. Over the past 15 years, 31.5 million people have flown on Brussels Airlines' 4-engine planes to 89 different places on 606,000 flights. The AVRO often stopped at airports like Bromma (Stockholm), Copenhagen, Marseille, Lyon, Geneva, Oslo, Manchester, and Berlin.

Once upon a time, there were 32 AVRO jets in the fleet of Brussels Airlines. This weekend, the last one, which has the registration number OO-DWD and is called "Delta-Whiskey-Delta," leaves the airline. From now on, only Airbus planes will be allowed to fly under Brussels Airlines' operator license.

On the last commercial flight, there were a lot of aviation fans and people who had used Brussels Airlines for a long time. One of them even went all the way from the U.S. to Brussels just to be on the AVRO's last flight. In fact, the AVRO is now a very rare plane in Europe. The few planes that are still in use only fly in Ireland, Great Britain, Sweden, and Greece. Some of these have been used before by Brussels Airlines.

Other AVRO jets that used to be used by Brussels Airlines began new lives on other continents. Some jets are now used to fight fires in the United States and Canada, and others fly in South America and Ghana. Some have been taken apart for spare parts, and one is now used as a training plane for firefighters at Brussels Airport.

We think back on the AVRO era with a lot of gratitude and fondness. It was the plane that got Brussels Airlines off the ground and moving in its first steps. The AVRO was an important and successful part of Brussels Airlines' history. It helped millions of people get to their destinations safely, and it gave hundreds of our crews a start to their careers.