Rumours: Second Brussels Flight

[MAH4546]

Just a rumour, but I have heard a second trans-Atlantic crossing will soon be added to AA's schedule from Brussels starting in May. Most likely JFK, but maybe MIA. Anyone hear anything else?

 

[fliboi78]

it is in the jfk base manager verna miller's (or something like that) base report on the flt svc website. i think it will be just like our bcn we were to get but then a few months before it started...they canceled it.

 

[upsilon]

I sure hope it will be out of JFK to BRU. I was a 'regular' when this route previously existed. Now I have to fly AA to CDG and take the Thalys train to BRU.

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[MiAAmi]

I just heard this same rumor the other day by 767 capt from JFK.

 

[fliboi78]

upsilon, are you belgian? i live in adagem, between gent and brugge. i didn't know anyone at jfk lived in belgium. i was there for 2 years and always picked up cdg, when it was open. the only person i knew lived there was french. maybe i can get jfk again (if i'm around long enough). i know there are only about 20 people at jfk who are dutch qualified. i WAS one of them.

 

[FlyAA777]

Confirmed. JFK-BRU seasonal, starting in May. Loaded into SABRE late yesterday.

 

[MiAAmi]

Still not showing up in Sabre yet this am.

 

[L1011Ret]

BRU is a great layover - the city square is full of music and entertainment nightly. The food is usually outstanding. The bus ride to the hotel does not take long.

 

[upsilon]

No fliboi78, I'm just a dedicated AA pax based in NYC with European business who found BRU to be the best way to get to my German office in Aachen.

For many years I regularly flew the route on TWA, and then AA, until AA dropped JFK-BRU. For various reasons I tried LGA-ORD-BRU and then JFK-LHR-BRU before settling on JFK-CDG. If I have business in AMS or BRU, or in Liege and just on to Aachen, Thalys gets me there fastest with the least hassle; but the connection schedule from CDG eastward is not the best.

Thus I am happy to see AA restart the route (albeit a long time in the future); but I hope AA finds it can generate the traffic to continue it on a regular basis.

On another thread, I said I looked forward to flying with you. As a Flemish 'speaker' I am sure you will on one of my JFK-BRU flights in the future.

 

[s80dude]

still not in SABRE this PM....only shows service via ORD or on the train from Paris.

don't changes become effective on sundays in sabre?