Brussels airport has a new airport building opened around 2002. With
pier A gates for the Schengen countries (European destinations).
In 2002 at Brussels airport, a new
carrier was formed, called
sn
Brussels airlines.
They had 32 avro jet aircraft and engaged a selection of the staff
of the Belgian national carrier Sabena which was bankrupted
in 2001 after a take-over by Swiss.
In 2002 Virgin Express had a fleet of mainly Boeing 737-300 flying from
Brussels to
Nice,
Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Copenhagen, ... They were
competitors to Sabena and sn Brussels airlines. Later Virgin Express
was taken over by Brussels airlines.