Brussels Airlines continues its growth path in the month of June

Brussels Airlines continued to grow during the past month. In total, 848,434 passengers have chosen for a Brussels Airlines flight, 15.3% more than in June 2016.

The commercial strategy of Brussels Airlines and the balanced mix of a growing range of business and leisure destinations led to an important passenger increase in June. In total, more than 112,000 additional passengers have chosen for Brussels Airlines. The seat load factor of the flights amounted to nearly 80%.

The intra-European flight offer attracted 15.7% more guests. North America flights registered a passenger growth of 7.6%. 2.3% more passengers boarded one of the Africa flights. The new destination Mumbai also yielded very good results.

With a passenger increase of 15.3%, Brussels Airlines was one of the fastest growing European airlines of the month of June.

The Brussels Airlines freight activity, expressed in Revenue Ton Kilometre (RTK), recorded a growth of over 19 percentage points.

In addition to its scheduled flight activity, Brussels Airlines operated throughout the month of June many holiday and ad-hoc flights for tour operators. Passenger results of this activity are not included in the figures of this press release.

Passenger and cargo results first semester

During the first semester (January-June 2017 period), exactly 4,270,721 passengers made use of a Brussels Airlines flight. That is 830,354 or 24.1% more than in the same period in 2016. The seat load factor of the flights increased by 4.8 percentage points and amounted to 76.1%. The cargo load factor was on average 67.4% and the Revenue Ton Kilometers (RTK) increased by 27%.