Kigali, 24 October 2017: Rwanda’s National carrier, RwandAir, will begin three weekly flights on the Brussels-Kigali route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays effective 31 October, 2017.

Initially, RwandAir was landing to London and then to Brussels, but passengers on the route were required to have a UK transit visa for this stopover.

The Acting RwandAir Chief Executive Officer, Col. Chance Ndagano has announced that the Brussels direct flights will cater for non-Schengen citizens who were required to have a UK transit visa in order to go through Gatwick Airport, London heading to Brussels.

Ndagano said the new schedule will improve RwandAir’s customers’ experience boarding from Brussels while maintaining the schedule from London with only one stop in Brussels. London-bound passengers will now pass via Zaventem Airport in Brussels and will not need a Schengen transit visa as they will be required to stay onboard the aircraft.

RwandAir is operating this route with its state of the art Airbus A330 fleet; triple class cabin planes with in-flight connectivity, connecting Kigali-Brussels–Gatwick route to its African footprints through Kigali International Airport.

RwandAir is expected to spread its wings to New York and more Asian destinations. Conakry in Guinea, Bamako, Mali, Lilongwe in Malawi, and Durban in South Africa are on the list of more footprints.

By June 2018, the National carrier targets to increase passengers number from 650,000 to 1,020,076 passengers while six new destinations (Brussels, Conakry, Bamako, Dakar, Guangzhou and Capetown) will be added totaling to existing 24 routes.