Brussels Airport – Brussels, Belgium (IATA: BRU, ICAO: EBBR) (also called in Dutch: Luchthaven Zaventem or in French: Aéroport de Zaventem), also Zaventem Airport or Brussels (Zaventem) International Airport, was formerly known as "Brussel Nationaal/Bruxelles-National" (Brussels National). It is an international airport located in Zaventem, in Flanders, near Brussels, Belgium. The airport is a hub to Brussels Airlines and European Air Transport.
The airport is home to around 260 companies, together directly employing 20,000 people.
In 2005, the airport was awarded Best Airport in Europe by ACI/IATA, based on a survey conducted with over 100,000 passengers worldwide.
The airport received an official name on 19 October 2006: Brussels Airport, Welcome to Europe. According to the airport operator, its main characteristics are: European, Welcoming and Efficient.
The company operating the airport is known as "The Brussels Airport Company N.V./S.A."; before October 19, 2006, the name was BIAC (Brussels International Airport Company).
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines have scheduled services to Brussels Airport (as of April 2007):
Adria Airways (Ljubljana) Aer Lingus (Dublin) Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo) Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli) Air Algérie (Algiers) Air France (Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon) Air Malta (Malta) Air Transat (Montréal) [seasonal] airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius) Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino) Albanian Airlines (Tirana) American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK) Atlas Blue (Marrakech) Austrian Airlines (Vienna) bmi (East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London-Heathrow) Blue1 (Helsinki) British Airways (London-Heathrow) Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund) Brussels Airlines (Abidjan, Athens, Banjul, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tempelhof, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Budapest, Bujumbura, Casablanca, Catania, Conakry, Copenhagen, Dakar, Douala, Entebbe, Faro, Frankfurt, Freetown, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kigali, Kinshasa, Krakow, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Luanda, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Milan-Malpensa, Monrovia, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Murcia, Nairobi, Naples, Newcastle, Nice, Oslo, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Seville, St. Petersburg [begins April 28, 2007], Stockholm-Bromma, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Yaoundé) Bulgaria Air (Sofia) Continental Airlines (Newark) Croatia Airlines (Zagreb) Czech Airlines (Prague) Cyprus Airways (Larnaca) Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK) Eastern Airways (Cardiff, Durham-Tees Valley, Southampton) EgyptAir (Cairo, Luxor) El Al (Tel Aviv) Estonian Air (Tallinn) Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa) Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi, Toronto-Pearson) Finnair (Helsink Flybe (Manchester) FlyLal (Vilnius) Hainan Airlines (Beijing) Hewa Bora Airways (Kinshasa) Iberia Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela) operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias) Jat Airways (Belgrade) Jet Airways (Mumbai, Newark) [begins August 16, 2007] Jetairfly (Agadir, Cairo, Cancun, Djerba, Hurghada, Marrakech, Monastir, Montego Bay, Nador, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Tangier, Toulon, Varadero) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam) LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw) Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart) Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest) Northwest Airlines (Detroit) [begins June 16, 2007] Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki) Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Bremen) Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Nador, Oujda, Tangier) Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Stockholm-Arlanda) SAS Braathens (Oslo) SkyEurope (Budapest, Krakow, Prague, Vienna) Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich) Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Beirut, Damascus) TAP Portugal (Lisbon) Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni) Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Agadir, Alicante, Antalya, Burgas, Choayang, Djerba, Ibiza, Izmir, Las Palmas, Malta, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Varna) Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis) Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk) Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil) United Airlines (Washington-Dulles) US Airways (Philadelphia) [begins June 1, 2007] VLM Airlines (London-City) Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Valencia)
Information and Help Desks
An airport information desk is available in the Departures area. There is also an Information Call Center (tel: (0)2 753 7753).
Airport Facilities
Money and communications: Facilities include a bank and post office, bureaux de change and ATMs. Mobile telephones can be hired from Locaphone in the Arrivals hall. Internet, data ports for laptops and wireless connection are available at the Communications Center in the Arrivals hall. Eating and drinking: There are several bars, cafés, restaurants and vending machines available. Shopping: There is a wide variety of shops, including duty-free. Luggage: Porters are available on request (tel: (0)2 753 4117 or 6914). There are lockers on level 0. Passengers should contact the airport authority (tel: (0)2 753 6820) for lost property. Other facilities: Baby-changing facilities are situated throughout the terminal building.
Conference and Business Facilities
The Regus Skyport Meeting Centre (tel: (0)2 714 0200; website: www.regus.com) offers ten meeting rooms, secretarial services and wireless Internet connection. Airport Forum (tel: (0)2 714 0770; website: www.airport-forum.com) provides welcome desks and lounges, as well as facilities for telecommunications, secretarial and other services. The Sky Hall Reception Room (tel: (0)2 280 8410) has event space for up to 1,500 people.
Facilities for Disabled Travellers
Disabled toilets, lifts and ramps are available. Passengers requiring special assistance should inform their airline prior to travel and arrive at the airport at least two hours in advance. There is a designated pick-up and drop-off zone for disabled passengers. Front Park 1 and 2 both provide disabled parking spaces.
Summary
Airport Code : BRU Airport Name : Brussels Airport Runway Length : 9790 ft. Runway Elevation : 184 ft.
City : Brussels Country : Belgium Country Abbrev. : BE World Area Code : 409 GMT Offset : +2.0
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