Brussels Airlines becomes competence center for Eurowings long-haul flights

The announcement was made by the CEO of Eurowings: Brussels Airlines will become the competence center for all Eurowings long-haul flights.

On a visit to Brussels today, the head of the Eurowings Eurowings group, Thorsten Dirks, announced that Brussels Airlines would become the center of competence for all its long-haul flights . L a subsidiary of Lufthansa does not (yet) operate such flights at present.

Eurowings will take over the short-haul operations of the group of the same name from Cologne. [19659004] The new strategic configuration puts us at the head of the consolidation of European airlines.
        

The CEO will explain the strategy of his group during an extraordinary corporate meeting at Brussels Airlines this afternoon.

Thus, Brussels Airlines will become the center Eurowings intercontinental flights, managing all the activities of the entire group in this segment from Brussels .

In return, Brussels Airlines will actively participate in Eurowings' pan-European growth strategy by becoming the operator of the expansion to other airport bases.

The setting up of the new configuration is scheduled for 2019 .