None of the three airlines immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The closure is also causing concern among trade unions, which fear passenger traffic may not return to pre-closure levels once the airport reopens.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been insisting with the airport management for at least two years to have a dialogue on the subject,\u201d said Alain Goelens, a representative of trade union SETCa, referring to the impact of the traffic suspension on employment.<\/p>\n
He called for greater coordination between the airport and the Walloon regional government \u201cto see how we are going to anticipate things, both for the staff and in relation to the airlines, to be sure that these companies will return.\u201d<\/p>\n
C\u00e9cile Neven, the Walloon minister responsible for airports, rejected accusations that the government had failed to plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cContrary to what has been claimed, preparations for this project have been underway for many months,\u201d her office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"None of the three airlines immediately responded to requests for comment. The closure is also causing concern among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[1733,2971,708,7,18,79,4720,175,408,714,259,1585],"class_list":["post-30698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-airlines","tag-airports","tag-aviation","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-companies","tag-employment","tag-industry","tag-infrastructure","tag-safety","tag-tax","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116999415588559615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698","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=30698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}