Airlines and services Belgium

Charleroi airport is the second largest airport in the country (after Brussels National) and is located in Gosselies, at the junction of the E42 (Paris/Lille-Namur-Liège) and E420 (Reims-Charleroi-Brussels) motorways. It hosts several low-cost airlines including Ryanair (including flights to Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Pau, Carcassonne, La Rochelle, Perpignan, Bergerac, Figari, Nîmes). Bus line A connects the airport to Charleroi-Sud station. A bus + train ticket (bulk ticket) to any Belgian station is sold at the airport.

Brussels International Airport (www.brusselsairport.be) is 30 minutes from Antwerp.

Belgian airlines Brussels Airlines offers a shuttle service between Zaventem airport and the centre of Antwerp every hour from until. Adult: 10 th, child (2 to 11 years old): 5 e. Information: & (0) 52 33 40 00 - www.brusselsairlines.com.

Approximately half an hour, a train connects the airport to Antwerp central station (change to the station of Brussels North). The journey takes about 1 hours and costs 7,40 e.

This international airport is located in Belgium, near the city of Charleroi. It is the country's second-biggest airport in terms of traffic, after Brussels-National. There are regular flights to the Balkans, in particular to Skopje in Northern Macedonia with Wizz Air. Charleroi airport itself has regular connections with the French airports of Béziers, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brive, Lyon, Nîmes, Perpignan, Tarbes and Toulouse.

In Maillen, in the town of Houssières, there's a charming restaurant called "Les Houssières". Managed by Nicolas, Géraldine and Eric, the restaurant is located in an 18th-century farmhouse fitted out in classic style. The setting is enchanting and offers a warm, intimate atmosphere, ideal for a meal with friends or a tête à tête.

Brussels airport is served by train and bus. You can get off at the airport's SNCB station from most of the country's train stations, as well as international ones, and you can also take lines 12 (express in Brussels in 30 min.) 471, 659 and 359 on the Flemish side (and a ton of other smaller lines). There are also connections to Charleroi airport, which is very popular with low-cost airlines. Flights to Schengen countries depart from Pier A, to Africa from Pier T, and to the rest of the world from Pier B.

TuiFly is part of the long-established German TUI group, considered one of the world's leading tour operators. TuiFly has a strong presence in Cape Verde, particularly on the islands of Sal and Boa Vista, where it carries thousands of passengers in search of radiant winter sunshine. 2 to 3 flights a week from Brussels to Boa Vista, several flights a week to Sal. What's more, the flights are direct, at prices that are often unbeatable, and would justify French passengers making a slight detour to the flat country, if need be.

TUI fly Belgium, the Belgian subsidiary of the German TUI Group, operates between two and seven routes a week all year round between Brussels-National and Tirana airports. Convenient for tourists from Belgium and northern France, this route is mainly used by the Albanian diaspora. For the record, Albania's national airline Air Albania (airalbania.com.al) offers very few services: only to Italy and Turkey (in 2024), and the service to Basel-Mulhouse seems to have been suspended.

Brussels Airlines, which rose from the ashes of the national carrier Sabena, is the main airline linking Brussels Airport with the rest of the world. Connections to France are mainly to cities in the south (Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, Ajaccio, Figari), but also to Nantes and Strasbourg (due to travel between the two European parliaments) and to Geneva in Switzerland. A must is to come across one of their customized "Belgian Icons" aircraft: Rackham (Tintin), Trident (Diables Rouges), Aerosmurf (the Smurfs), Amare (Tomorrowland) or Bruegel.