Thai Airways now serves 11 European airports with Brussels return

On December 1, Thai Airways' regular Brussels service returned after a four-and-a-half-year gap. While the long route previously operated no more than six times weekly, aircraft downgauging means it is daily for the first time. It has become Thai Airways' 11th European airport and Brussels' fourth-longest service. With 106,000 roundtrip point-to-point passengers, Bangkok-Brussels is a reasonable-sized market. It is the Belgium capital's third-largest long-haul market after New York JFK (160,000) and Dubai (126,000). It is Bangkok's 14th-largest European market. The above figures were before Thai Airways resumed nonstop flights, so traffic was depressed. Indeed, in the airline's last full year of operation, the city pair had approximately 152,000 passengers, with Thai Airways carrying about 43%. The rest transited to another flight en route, mainly in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Helsinki, and (as permitted at the time) Moscow Sheremetyevo.<br/>