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Brussels Airport (BRU)

Brussels Airport (BRU, EBBR) serves Brussels, Belgium. Flights leaving BRU left an average of 19.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 74th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 23.9 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Madrid.

Delays at BRU

Average departure delay per flight: 19.1 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in September (27.5 min) and lightest in March (14.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from BRU, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202520.0 min9,416
September 202527.5 min9,057
October 202519.6 min8,933
November 202518.0 min7,515
December 202518.9 min7,800
January 202620.5 min7,168
February 202615.4 min7,032
March 202614.1 min7,778
April 202614.3 min8,609
May 202616.8 min9,164
June 202622.0 min8,959
July 202620.3 min9,809

Air traffic flow restrictions held 1.3% of arrivals at BRU for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (39% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at BRU

23,903,535 passengers used BRU in the twelve months to February 2026, on 173,563 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at BRU, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 20251,728,20813,238
April 20251,963,72914,460
May 20251,991,72115,810
June 20252,129,34115,414
July 20252,503,94916,972
August 20252,484,30216,699
September 20252,269,51615,777
October 20252,221,20815,212
November 20251,648,04812,588
December 20251,777,49313,324
January 20261,567,22412,115
February 20261,618,79611,954

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from BRU

  1. Madrid (MAD)1,014,027 passengers
  2. Barcelona (BCN)883,847 passengers
  3. Rome (FCO)633,983 passengers
  4. Malaga (AGP)620,931 passengers
  5. London Heathrow (LHR)570,620 passengers
  6. Alicante (ALC)538,283 passengers
  7. Geneva Cointrin (GVA)526,592 passengers
  8. Lisbon (LIS)516,642 passengers
  9. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)513,124 passengers
  10. Vienna (VIE)478,492 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Brussels (BRU)?
Flights leaving BRU left an average of 19.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 74th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at BRU?
September 2025, when flights left an average of 27.5 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (14.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at BRU?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At BRU in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (39% of those minutes), then weather (33%).

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