{"id":15231,"date":"2026-05-12T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:44:10","slug":"brussels-airport-hit-by-transport-disruption-after-gas-leak-closes-access-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15231\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels Airport hit by transport disruption after gas leak closes access routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access roads to <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/brussels-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brussels Airport<\/a> were temporarily closed after a gas leak was reported during road construction work, forcing authorities to advise passengers to reach the airport only by train.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory posted on X, Brussels Airport said, \u201cDue to a gas leak during road works, access roads to Brussels Airport are currently closed. The airport can only be reached by train at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Train services continue during disruption<br \/> Brussels Airport-Zaventem railway station, located directly beneath the airport terminal on level -1, remained operational during the disruption. The airport advised passengers to use train services from Brussels city centre and other Belgian cities to reach the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u2019s rail network includes direct services from Brussels-North, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/brussels-central\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brussels-Central<\/a> and Brussels-South stations, with travel times ranging from around 11 to 23 minutes. Several trains also connect the airport with major Belgian cities including Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent and Li\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels Airport said train travel remains one of the fastest and most convenient ways to access the airport, with multiple services operating every hour.<\/p>\n<p>The airport also maintains international rail links through connections to destinations including Amsterdam, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paris<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London<\/a> via the Belgian rail network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Access roads to Brussels Airport were temporarily closed after a gas leak was reported during road construction work,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[10219,18,135,10216,10220,1291,2462,10218,10217],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium-train-travel","tag-brussels","tag-brussels-airport","tag-brussels-airport-gas-leak","tag-brussels-central","tag-london","tag-paris","tag-temporary-road-closures-airport","tag-train-services-brussels-airport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116560729370043189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}