Brussels Airlines is no longer able to provide a flight directly linking Kinshasa to Brussels for reasons of limited fuel supply at the airport of the Congolese capital, we learned from the airline on Tuesday. The company is looking for structural solutions since this limitation is in effect until mid-September.
A flight (SN358) from Kinshasa to Brussels had to be canceled on Monday due to a fuel purchase limitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the carrier said on Tuesday. Just under 300 passengers were on board and non-residents had to be relocated to a hotel in Kinshasa. Brussels Airlines is looking for solutions to bring them back to Belgium, while the next flights between the Congolese capital and Zaventem are (almost) complete.
“This limit of 35,000 litres/28 tonnes of kerosene per plane, imposed by local fuel suppliers on airlines, is currently in effect until mid-September.“, further specifies the company.
Brussels Airlines is therefore working on a structural solution “to continue to guarantee its flights to and from the DRC“.
Clarification: A first version of the article, taken from a Belga dispatch, indicated that all flights connecting Kinshasa to Brussels were affected by the supply problem developed above. According to Brussels Airlines, the company indicates that the problem concerns only one plane and that the other flights connecting the two destinations do not experience a similar incident. It also specifies that the flight of this Wednesday evening should take place.