Brussels Airlines to announce Nairobi service

May 23, 2024 in Business, Companies, Travel & Tourism by Editor

Brussels Airlines is set to complete its East African loop with the launch of a service between the Nairobi and the Belgian capital, in the coming weeks. In an invite to journalists to a press event scheduled for June 4, at the Nairobi Kempinski, Brussels says it will reveal details about “the route, the strategy of Brussels Airlines and the expected impact on both countries.”

Launch date, frequency and equipment to be used are some of the details expected to be revealed by Chief executive Dorothea von Boxberg during the engagement which will also June Chepkemei, the ceo of the Kenya Tourism Board and Peter Maddens, Belgium’s ambassador to Kenya. Dorothea will expound the strategic goals behind the route, economic benefits to Kenya and Belgium as well as details of the cargo and passenger service.

Brussels Airlines has served Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania for the better part of two decades with a triangular service alternating between Kigali and Bujumbura passing through Entebbe, six times a week using an A330. Adding Nairobi, therefore, fulfils a long-held ambition. Brussels stablemate, Lufthansa, already serves Nairobi from Frankfurt.

In particular, Uganda considers Brussels an all-weather friend because Sabena, its forerunner, continued to provide international connectivity to the throughout the turbulent 70’sand 80’s, until it went out of the market in the wake 9/11 market downturn.