Brussels Airlines Resumes Flights to Nairobi
The Belgian airline relaunches Nairobi route with 6 weekly A330 flights.
Brussels Airlines (SN), the Africa expert within the Lufthansa Group, has re-launched direct flights between Brussels (BRU) and Nairobi (NBO), Kenya.
The service resumed on June 3, 2024, with flight SN481 operating the route using an Airbus A330-300 aircraft.
The first flight departed from Brussels following a gate-event attended by Dorothea von Boxberg, CEO of Brussels Airlines, Arnaud Feist, CEO of Brussels Airport, and Peter Maddens, the Belgian ambassador in Kenya.
“This expansion underscores our commitment to connecting Africa to the world, with a strong emphasis on East Africa,” stated Kevin Markette, General Manager East Africa for the Lufthansa Group.
The airline will operate six weekly flights on the BRU-NBO route utilising its recently delivered Airbus A330 aircraft.
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Furthermore, Brussels Airlines has increased its frequency to Kigali, Rwanda, now offering daily flights.
Markette emphasised that this move positions the carrier as “the sole airline operating daily flights to Kigali from mainland Europe.”
Brussels Airlines, which operates to 18 destinations in sub-Saharan Africa, has outlined ambitious growth plans, with the re-launch of the Nairobi (Kenya) route “as [the] first tangible result of this expansion.”
