Brussels Airlines has pushed back its planned restart of
long-haul services but still plans to grow overall capacity during the next
several months.
The carrier this month had planned to begin restarting
long-haul service to New York, Montreal and many of its destinations in Africa,
but it now has delayed that relaunch to August due to ongoing travel
restrictions. The European Union this week extended a ban on visitors from
several countries, including the US, with high Covid-19 infection rates.
Brussels also announced that it will resume service to seven
medium-haul destinations in September and October, bringing its network to
about 45 per cent of its normal schedule. Those include Basel, Birmingham,
Bologna, Edinburgh, Gothenburg, Milan and Warsaw. In addition, the carrier
plans to resume service to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in August, in addition to
its other planned long-haul destinations.