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The number of complaints from local residents about noise caused by airplanes landing and taking off at Brussels Airport last year reached a record high of nearly 90,000 complaints.
Brussels Airport last year responded 13 times to a crash alert, an alarm sent out by an aircraft in distress while approaching the national airport, including both cargo and passenger aircraft.
At Brussels Airport, about 500 vacancies remain unfilled, especially those requiring low-skilled technicians. The company calls for improved bus services to and from the airport.
Brussels Airport today is filled with holiday-goers on their way out of the country before the start of the school holiday next week.
A French fighter jet intercepted a Brussels Airlines flight after contact with the cockpit was suddenly broken. The incident was in June, but has only now become known.
The new federal minister of public health, Maggie De Block, has appointed doctor Erika Vlieghe as the national Ebola co-ordinator.
The unions behind Brussels Airlines want to see more being done to ensure staff safety, as it is currently one of the few airlines continuing service to West Africa.
The European Commission has raised strong objections to the €15 million subsidy approved by the outgoing Di Rupo government for Brussels Airlines. A thorough investigation has been ordered.
Negotiators who are working on the formation of a new federal government succeeded in reaching agreements on energy issues, noise pollution linked to air traffic and radicalism.
