Brussels Airlines. Photo: Wikipedia.

In what officials acknowledge is a symbolic gesture, three passenger flights will be taking off from Brussels Airport on Sunday after a 12-day shutdown caused by a deadly bombing attack.

Arnaud Feist, the CEO of Brussels Airport Co., says the Brussels Airlines flights to Athens, Turin in Italy and Faro in Portugal were “a sign of hope” and a demonstration of “shared will” that even partial passenger service could resume so soon following “the darkest days in the history of aviation in Belgium.”

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