Brussels Airlines: Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium acquisitions to help solve fleet utilisation issues

4 January, 2018

Brussels Airlines CEO Bernard Gustin stated the acquisition of Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium will help solve productivity issues by allowing the airline to better utilise aircraft on weekends for leisure traffic (airliners.de, 03-Jan-2018). Mr Gustin explained Brussels Airlines aircraft are currently under utilised on Saturday afternoons due to the lack of business travellers on weekends.