Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
Last week I flew Zurich to Antwerp on a weekday evening. Load factor over 80% with plenty of passengers in business attire. Perhaps a particularly good one-off day but suggests to me ANR-ZRH is not a complete financial disaster.
Not a surprise to me. When traveling by air between Northern Belgium/Southern Netherlands flying from/to Antwerp airport is much more convenient than from surrounding int.airports.
2 Flights a day, 20 minutes from car to plane at ANR and very competitive prices. e.g. flying in the morning from BRU to ZRH will take at least 90 min at the BRU-airport itself. On top of that the airfares from Swiss/SN are 2-3 times higher as those by VLM from ANR. (e.g next week you pay at least around 1000 EUR for a return ticket from BRU as compared to around 400 EUR with VLM from ANR).
Also, it seems VLM is going to introduce a Sunday-flight ANR-ZRH as from their winterschedule,hence further strengthening the schedule on the routing.