TUI fly Belgium resumed flights from Antwerp with one of its three Embraer E196-E2s on October 7 after a two-month suspension.
The 136-seat aircraft completed flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which were previously operated from Brussels while the company dealt with a shortage of spare parts for its Pratt & Whitney GTF engines.
With a runway of just 1,500 meters, Antwerp International Airport does not operate TUI’s Boeing 737 jets, so the airline had to temporarily transfer flights to the Belgian capital.
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At the beginning of August, TUI Fly had already managed to resume operations with one of the three E195-E2s registered as OO-ETA, while the OO-ETC aircraft returned to flying on October 1.
Only the Embraer OO-ETB has been out of service since July 22.
Ex-Belavia aircraft
Owner of a large fleet of Boeing 737s, TUI fly decided to lease three E195-E2s in 2022, aircraft supplied by AerCap after having been returned by Belavia, from Belarus.
Currently, Embraer jets are the largest aircraft operating in Antwerp, a city in northern Belgium and close to the border with the Netherlands.
