Today, Brussels Airlines proudly presented its latest Belgian Icon, a tribute to one of Belgium’s most internationally cherished creations: Tintin. The airline revealed its freshly painted aircraft (Airbus A320 – OO‑SNJ), inspired by Hergé’s universe and the famous adventures on the Moon and in space.
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BELGIUM | Access gates to be introduced in major railway stations, reversing earlier opposition
The Belgian Federal Government is moving ahead with the installation of access gates in major railway stations, despite earlier opposition from passenger groups, unions, and the railway operator itself, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard report.
BRUSSELS AIRPORT | 2026 brings Chengdu, Palma de Mallorca, Oviedo, Gdańsk, Pristina…
Brussels Airport in Zaventem is heading into one of its most dynamic years in recent memory. As first revealed by Thibault Lapers on his Mobilithib blog, Belgium’s main airport expects a busy 2026 summer season with more than 4,000 weekly flights, underpinned by a wave of new routes, new airlines and long-haul expansion.
NETHERLANDS | Arriva will not launch the Groningen to Paris service in 2026
Dutch private railway operator Arriva, which has been planning to launch open-access services between the Netherlands and Paris in France, via Brussels in Belgium, will not put this project into operation in 2026. The information was first revealed by Thibault Lapers on his Mobilithib blog, based on statements from the company itself.
REVIEW | The Loft by Brussels Airlines and Lexus business lounge at Brussels Airport A-Gates
August 2025. We’re travelling to the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and more specifically their respective capitals Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Are they interconnected by rail? Yes, but not in the most straightforward or userfriendly way possible. The Rail Baltica project should remedy this. Unsurprisingly though, this megaproject faces political and budgetary hurdles. It…
REVIEW | SAS Scandinavian Airlines System – Copenhagen to Atlanta – economy – Airbus A330
Easter 2025. I’m visiting my uncle and aunt in Leland, North Carolina. It’s my first trip of two to the United States in 2025. I haven’t seen them live since February 2020 just before the first lockdown and I haven’t travelled to this area since 2019. I’m flying with SAS and Delta. The itinerary: Brussels…
Brussels Airlines opens pop-up lounge for premium passengers during The Loft renovation: a brand-new lounge is scheduled to open by the end of summer 2026
Brussels Airlines will open a pop-up lounge at Brussels Airport as of 7 January 2026 and extend the opening hours of its Sunrise Lounge. The Loft, the airline’s award-winning lounge in the A-zone of Brussels Airport, will close for an extensive renovation. With the Pop-up Loft and the extended opening hours of the Sunrise Lounge,…
ANTWERP AIRPORT | TUI Fly to run ‘winter programme’ in summer of 2026
TUI Fly will significantly scale back its operations at Antwerp International Airport (ANR) in Deurne this summer, Gazet van Antwerpen reports. The airline, which has long been the only major carrier at Antwerp Airport, will no longer fly to Ibiza in Spain, Antalya in Turkey (Türkiye) or Crete in Greece from Deurne.
Brussels Airport to Milan Malpensa with Brussels Airlines, operated by Air Baltic, ft. the 2025 check-in and boarding software hack
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
Reorganising train travel in Belgium by 2050: going for the Swiss or the Dutch model?
On 4 December 2025, the Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport has published the executive summary of a groundbreaking study – ‘Lange termijn exploitatiemodel van het spoornetwerk‘ – that redefines how Belgium plans the future of its rail system. This is the first feasibility study ever produced for an integrated long-term timetable covering the entire…