Brussels Airport gears up for Wednesday

Tomorrow – the first day of the school holidays – is predicted to be busy for airports. Brussels Airport predicts 44,000 departing passengers, with Charleroi expecting 30,000. Brussels Airport expects a rise in the figure on Friday to about 45,000. Even Sunday’s figures are expected to be high at around 44,000 departures. 

The week’s figures are 4.5% higher than the same period last year. One notable change is that holiday-makers no longer tend to wait until the weekend before taking off, leading to the high midweek figures this year.

Elsewhere, motoring organisations Touring and VAB said they expect no particular problems on the roads this weekend, despite a predicted large number of motorists heading for the south.

This year the start of the school holidays is followed by the beginning of the annual holiday for the construction industry in Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde and Walloon Brabant – a period joined by other sectors. In addition, the forecast is for fine weather could lead to tailbacks on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning in the direction of the coast and, to a lesser extent, on the E411 direction Ardennes and E19 and E17 direction Paris. The latter route will also be affected by the start of school holidays in the north of the Netherlands.

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