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Old Nov 25, 2014 | 4:10 am
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Originally Posted by kahuna1993
If one looks around when walking in at the entrance area -before entering the lounge proper- , I counted at least 30 lockers where you can stow all the important laptops, Ipads , coats, handbags etc to prevent clogging up other peoples personal space . There is soo much space in this lounge which will never be as full of travellers as the bus. lounges in FRA or ZUR considering the far smaller amounts of bussiness people with lots of loitering time flying from terminal A compared to FRA or ZUR ...Very few people seem to hang around this lounge longer than 1 hour as the transit times are shorter in BRU and more importantly the types of planes flying from this terminal are mostly regional BAE jumbolino or airbus 320-types so probably about 10 visitors per planeload to be expected.
I would venture a guess that there is considerably more O&D traffic at the Schengen lounge of BRU as opposed to ZRH/FRA on a percentage basis- the former being the hub of EU politics and thus a tremendous amount of corporate and government O&D customers who tend to arrive at most 1 hour prior to departure and may not even visit the lounge.

Hats off however to BRU on finally getting something much better than the SAS lounge for their flagship.
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