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Brussels Airport Luchthaven Brussel Aéroport de Bruxelles | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / military | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Brussels Airport Company | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Focus city for | TUI fly Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 184 ft / 56 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°54′05″N 004°29′04″E / 50.90139°N 4.48444°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||
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Brussels Airport (Dutch: Luchthaven Brussel, French: Aéroport de Bruxelles) (IATA: BRU, ICAO: EBBR) is the main international airport of Belgium. It is located in the municipality of Zaventem in Flemish Brabant, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northeast[2] of Brussels.
Also informally known as Brussels-National Airport (Luchthaven Brussel-Nationaal, Aéroport de Bruxelles-National) or Brussels-Zaventem Airport (Luchthaven Brussel-Zaventem, Aéroport de Bruxelles-Zaventem), Brussels Airport handled more than 26 million passengers in 2019, making it the 26th busiest airport in Europe. It is home to around 260 companies, together directly employing 20,000 people and serves as the home base for Brussels Airlines and TUI fly Belgium. BRU covers 1,245 hectares (3,076 acres) and contains three runways.[3]
The company operating the airport is known as The Brussels Airport Company N.V./S.A.; before 19 October 2006, the name was BIAC (Brussels International Airport Company), which was created by Belgian law through a merger of BATC with the ground operations departments of the RLW/RVA. Since 2011, the airport has been owned by the Toronto-based Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (39%), Macquarie Group (Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund I and Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund III) (36%) and the Belgian State (25%).[4]
On 22 March 2016, the airport's departures hall was severely damaged by two terrorist bomb blasts. The airport was closed until 3 April 2016, when it was reopened with temporary facilities at less than 20% of its previous capacity.[5] It has since returned to full operations, with a record of 90,000 passengers on 29 July 2016.[6]
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- ^ a b EBBR – BRUSSELS / Brussels-National (also PDF). Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) from AIM Belgium via skeyes.
- ^ "Brussels Airport Facts and Figures-Airport Infrastructure". brusselsairport.be. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Moody's assigns (P)Baa1 rating to Brussels Airport Holding SA/NV's senior secured debt; stable outlook". Moodys.com. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ John Martens (3 April 2016). "Brussels Reconnects With NYC, Africa as Airport Shifts Gear". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Record day at Brussels Airport with 90,000 passengers expected". Archived from the original on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.