Originally Posted by
Germanfflyer
Well TIMATIC is wrong in this case and IDB is due - I have no doubt at all that a court would rule that this was IDB as the Visa was not a requirement to get to BRU!
Still apples and oranges (and red herrings).
It does not matter whether Russia hands out visas on the streets of Brussels to all comers. What matters is that appropriate Belgian authorities have advised IATA (the compiler of TIMATIC) that their sovereign nation requires proper documentation for the onward journey (as cited at least five times in this thread alone).
OP could not demonstrate that he had the visa he required to enter Russia and the SN agent accordingly denied him boarding.
Whether Belgium routinely enforces the requirement and whether SN would have been fined is not relevant. The entire system is designed with binary rules so that international commercial aviation can function.
OP is SOL.