MONTREAL — Following the resumption of operations at Brussels Airport, Air Transat’s direct flights between Montreal and the Belgian capital for the summer season will start on April 26, as planned.

Air Transat will offer the nonstop flight between Montreal and Brussels three times a week – on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays – during peak season.

It will also offer three new weekly connecting flights between Toronto and Montreal, allowing travellers from Toronto to fly to Brussels via Montreal.

Meanwhile Star Alliance member Brussels Airlines’ new service connecting Toronto Pearson International Airport five times a week with its home base Brussels, and onwards to other destinations in Europe and Africa, launched today. Toronto is Brussels Airlines’ first destination in Canada.

The Brussels Airlines flight will leave Toronto every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and arrive the next morning in Brussels at 7:50 a.m. local time. The flight to Toronto leaves Brussels Airport at 10:30 a.m. and arrives at Pearson Airport at 1:20 p.m. local time. The new service is operated with Airbus A330 aircraft equipped with Business and Economic Class cabins.

Codeshare connections via Toronto are available to and from various other destinations in Canada (Ottawa, Edmonton, Halifax, Quebec, Vancouver, Montreal Metropolitan Airport and St John’s) and the U.S.