Brussels Airport, also informally called Brussels-National Airport or Brussels-Zaventem Airport, is an international airport in the municipality of Zaventem in Flemish Brabant, 6.5 nautical miles northeast of Brussels, Belgium. In 2019, more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Brussels Airport, making it the 26th busiest airport in Europe. It is home to around 260 companies, together directly employing 20,000 people and serves as the home base for Brussels Airlines and TUI fly Belgium. BRU covers 1,245 hectares and contains three runways.
Airport diagram
Image: Brussels airport from air
Terminal 58 at Brussels Airport, built for Expo 58 (pictured in 1974)
Sabena Boeing 707-300 at Brussels Airport in 1966
Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is located in the Dijleland area, one of the three large recreational areas which together form the Groene Gordel around the Brussels-Capital Region. The municipality comprises the subdivisions or deelgemeenten of Nossegem, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Sterrebeek and Zaventem proper.
Zaventem
Ferdinand van Boisschot (1571–1649), 1st Baron of Saventhem, attributed to Anthony van Dyck (1630)
Zaventem municipal building, formerly the Feldheim Villa
Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak by Anthony van Dyck in the Church of Saint Martin