Thomaaas wrote:
But if you would move all star alliance and codeshare partners of SN to pier A and keep all the Schengen operations on pier A too, not much would be left in pier B I would think... United, US Airways, Air Canada, Thai, Hainan, Etihad, Delta and Jet Airways are Star Alliance or codeshare partners of SN so only Jetairfly long haul, British Airways, Ethiopian, Qatar, El Al and Aeroflot would be at pier B?
Don't include US Airways (leaving for Oneworld), neither Delta (most important Skyteam member), Jet Airways only partly and for how long will they stay...and I'm not sure Etihad should really be in the same pier as well. Pier B would be left with airlines like Jetairfly (non-schengen, includes quite some flights besides long haul), Thomas Cook (non-schengen), Royal Air Maroc, Air Arabia, Turkish Airlines (Star member, but no SN partner), British Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, US Airways, Delta Air Lines, Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, Air Algérie, Air Transat, Air Serbia, bmi, Corendon, easyJet (non-schengen routes, currently non, but soon LGW will start), MEA, Nouvelair, Pegasus, Freebird, TAROM (a SN codeshare partner, but not a major one so they could stay in Pier B), Tunisair, Ukraine International Airlines (same as Tarom) and I probably forget some more (especially summer charters to non-schengen destinations).
But indeed it will leave Pier B with a lot of overcapacity (it's already quite empty in the afternoon). But that's also why BRU will not built A Pier West untill they need the capacity. And because of the recent developments, that's expected to be later than some years ago. But no doubt non-schengen will continue to grow beyond SN/Star, so it's not like Pier B would be empty suddenly. And as I mentionned with some airlines above, they are not all major partners, they could stay at Pier B (despite 'under one roof operations' it often happens that certain smaller partners are still located in another terminal or section of the terminal than its partners).
Depending on the size of A Pier West BRU could also say: all long haul flights that matter to SN/Star Alliance hub operations, as well as the complete SN operations (so including the UK, Russia, Israel,.. operations of SN), with the rest (short/mid haul partners) remaining at Pier B. Or determining that depending on the share of transfer traffic.
