Brussels Airlines (SN, Brussels National) is planning to lease its two first A320-200s next year that will operate on charter services on behalf of Club Med. It has already taken delivery of two additional ex-Kayala Airline and ex-Meridiana fly (IG/Olbia) A319-100. It has also wet-leased a Dash 8-400 from Augsburg Airways (IQ/Augsburg) for its Brussels Ntl-Hanover route. Brussels Airlines has given up its Brussels Ntl-Frankfurt Intl route on March 28 in favour of the eight daily codeshare services operated by parent Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl). It has however launched several new routes to Africa thanks to the fifth ex-Malaysia Airlines (MH/Kuala Lumpur Intl) A330-300 now being in operation since July 5 adding Accra, Cotonou, Lomé and Ouagadougou to its network by rerouting its services to the region: Brussels Ntl-Abidjan-Cotonou-Brussels Ntl: weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Abidjan-Lomé-Brussels Ntl: weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Accra-Monrovia-Brussels Ntl: 2x weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Cotonou-Abidjan-Brussels Ntl: weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Lomé-Abidjan-Brussels Ntl: weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Monrovia-Accra-Brussels Ntl: 2x weekly A330-300 service Brussels Ntl-Ouagadougou-Abidjan: 2x weekly A330-300 service Brussels Airlines has started codesharing with its four North American Star Alliance partners Air Canada (AC/Montreal Trudeau), Continental Airlines (CO/Houston Intcl), United Airlines (UA/Chicago O’Hare) and US Airways (US/Phoenix). Air Canada operates a four times weekly Brussels Ntl-Montreal Trudeau-Toronto Pearson service, Continental operates a daily B767-400ER service from Brussels Ntl to New York Newark, United operates a daily B767-300ER services to Chicago O’Hare and Washington Dulles and US Airways operates daily B757-200 services to Philadelphia. Brussels Airlines has also started codesharing on the Hainan Airlines (HU/Haikou) A330-200 services from Brussels Ntl to Beijing and Shanghai Pu Dong and on the twice daily services between Brussels Ntl and Helsinki operated by Star Alliance partner Blue 1 (KF/Helsinki).