Friday, September 9th, 2016 — In August, 743,750 people flew via cheap Brussels Airlines Flight tickets, which is 4.6% more than the same month last year. Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and France were the most popular places to go on vacation.

In August, many people took vacations in the south and flew with Brussels Airlines. The plan to add more flights to popular vacation spots in Spain, Greece, France, Portugal, and Italy worked out very well. The number of people who flew on the European network grew by 3.4%, and the number of people who flew on the African flights grew by 3.5%. On the North American network, there was a 36.2% increase. This was mostly because of the new route to Toronto.

The seat load factor for flights in Europe was 79.7%, for flights in Africa it was 91%, and for flights in the US and Canada it was 84.1%. The amount of freight that was moved went up by 26.1%, to 2,972 tonnes.

In addition to its regular flights, Brussels Airlines also does a lot of group and holiday flights for tour operators. The numbers in this press release do not include the number of passengers for this event.

August

2016

August

2015

Year/year difference in %

Passengers

743,750

710,882

+4.6

Available seat-kilometres (in millions)

1,598.49

1,446.38

+10.5

Revenue Passenger-kilometres (in millions)

1,313.66

1,213.30

+8.3

Freight tonnage

2,972

2,357

+26.1

Freight Load Factor

56.6%

58.1%

-1.5 pts

Passenger Load Factor

81.1%

85.3%

-4.2 pts

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 — During today's meeting, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG agreed to use a call option to buy the last 55% of shares in SN Airholding, the company that owns Brussels Airlines. This goes a long way toward making it possible for Lufthansa to buy all of Brussels Airlines, which they hope to do by the beginning of 2017.

The goal of the talks going on between Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines is to keep Brussels Airlines as it is and to make sure that its activities continue to grow while keeping jobs in Belgium. Its business model is based on both point-to-point and connecting traffic, and it has networks in both Africa and the rest of the world. Both of these things help Brussels grow as a hub. Also on the list is how Brussels Airlines will be run in 2017. To keep track of all of these different operations, there needs to be a decision centre in Brussels. Brussels Airlines is still the name of the company.

In October, new talks will take place between Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, the shareholders, and everyone else involved.

As soon as there is something new to say, it will be said.