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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Air Transport 51.10 - Passenger air transport
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The airline company Brussels Airlines is enlarging her long distance fleet with two new Airbus A330 planes. The airline is planning to start up a new connection from Brussels-Toronto and to extend its networki to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria and Gabon) and to the United States (Washington DC and Newark). In a more distant future, the company has also raised the possibility of flights to India. The new routes will create at least 140 new jobs, mainly pilots and stewards but also in catering services, check-in points, luggage handling and in airplane maintenance.
Sources
18 December 2015: De Standaard
18 December 2015: De Tijd
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Brussels Airlines, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 86068, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86068.
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