Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport (IATA: BRU, ICAO: EBBR) is a large airport in Zaventem, Flemish Brabant Province, Belgium. It opened in 1940. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,638 m (11,936 ft). It is operated by Brussels Airport Company. In 2025 it handled 23.8 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1940–1961Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMapPassengers per year
2014–2025Routes
204 destinations · 77 countriesStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BRU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Brussels Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
79 airlines · destinations from BRUFormer hub of Abelag Aviation, Air Belgium (1979–2000), Birdy Airlines, Cargo B Airlines, CityBird, Jet Airways, SN Brussels Airlines, Sabena, Sobelair, VG Airlines and Virgin Express.
Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from BRU. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines