Brussels Airport, March 23, 2007 – The new airport summer schedules are now available. Passengers will discover three important new trends in it.

* More Europe. Several European direct routes become available this summer, most of these for the very first time. New direct destinations include Aberdeen (bmiregional), Bern (SunAir/British Airways), Brindisi (JetairFly), Cagliari (Brussels Airlines) and Tirana (Albanian Airlines). Frequency will increase on flights to Billund (Sun Air/British Airways), Ljubljana (Adria), and Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Lisbon and Birmingham (Brussels Airlines).

*More Low Fare. The startup of Brussels Airlines on March 25 brings a huge choice of low-fare European destinations, throughout the expanding network of the new airline. Furthermore a number of dedicated low-fare operators bring their product to our airport: Budapest, Prague and Vienna with Sky Europe, Geneva with easyJet, Istanbul with Corendon, Manchester with Flybe. Finally, charter airlines like Thomas Cook and JetairFly increasingly offer a ticket-only product at very competitive fares. In total, 144 European destinations are directly available from Brussels Airport. 120 destinations can be booked for less than 100 Euro (one way, including taxes), 83 of which are even available at less than 50 Euro. This is more than three times the low-fare offer of all other Belgian airports, combined.

*Long Haul. Several new intercontinental destinations will be directly connected to Brussels as from this summer. In June, Northwest Airlines starts daily flights to Detroit, and US Airways returns to Brussels with a daily connection to Philadelphia. Continental Airlines will introduce the B777 to their daily Newark operation. Brussels Airlines will fill in the growing demand for a direct connection between Brussels and Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. In August, the Indian airline Jet Airways plans to open daily flights to Mumbai and Newark.

Overall, the new timetable offers 203 direct passenger destinations. 144 of those are in Europe, 37 in Africa, 13 in Canada/US, 5 in the Middle East and 4 in Asia. These destinations are served by 89 different passenger airlines. 16 of these carriers operate charter flights only. On average throughout the year, 635 flights take off and land at Brussels Airport, every day.

The airport timetable can be downloaded from the Brussels Airport website at www.brusselsairport.be/en/contact/brochures. The “surprise” low-fare brochure with an overview of these fares is also available on the website. A printed copy of the timetable and the low-fare overview can be ordered at the same web address or picked up at the airport or at most Belgian travel agents and tour operators.