BRUSSELS: Brussels Airport reopens Sunday with three “symbolic” flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by ISIS suicide bombers.
As per details, the key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall on March 22 in coordinated blasts that also struck a metro station in the Belgian capital, killing a total of 32 people.
The attacks at the heart of Europe shocked the country and many hope the airport’s reopening, albeit in a limited capacity and using a tent-like temporary check-in facility, will help turn the page on this month’s traumatic events.
Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Feist Saturday said the partial resumption of services would start with three “symbolic passenger flights” to Faro, Athens and Turin.
“These flights are the first hopeful sign from an airport that is standing up straight after a cowardly attack,” Feist said.
