Brussels Airlines Airbus A330-200 registered OO-SFU with flight number SN601 took the last mile to Mumbai skies yesterday, Sunday 6th January 2019 as the airline declared no more flights on the route citing economic reasons after almost two years of operating on the same destination.
The Airline attributes called off flights to reasons of bureaucracy and difficult market coupled with strong competition.
The company announced in September 2018 that starting January 2019, they will be ending flights to Mumbai for economic reasons and deploy the freed A330 on the African routes of Banjul, Gambia and Dakar, Senegal which is the long-haul activity of Brussels Airlines.
Mumbai routes were launched by Brussels Airlines on 30th March 2017. This is not the first Airline to cancels flights to the same destination, Jet Airways called off flights on the same route as they moved their activities to Amsterdam, Schiphol as several Airlines have followed suite by declaring flights off Mumbai.
The return flight SN602 arrived at Brussels Airport this morning 7th January 2019.
