Originally Posted by
MaxVO
I should caution folks about potential problems with landing at BRU early in the morning. There are passport checks for disembarking flights, and quite a few of them arrive before 9am. But agents can not start working before 9am for some bureaucratic or union reason. Automated passport readers for EU citizens did not work either. The result was a complete chaos. I don't know if anything changed since my DP (~ a year ago).
Sounds like a one-off affair, perhaps a strike?
I fly very regularly into BRU and never had a problem with passport checks, nor with the automated readers which in all my cases always worked like a charm.
In fact, the quick security/customs etc. at BRU is the reason why I prefer it above flying to AMS or DUS (my final destination being somewhere roughly an equal distance to all these airports).
(and as said before, it wouldn't be an issue in the first place if connecting, as you wouldn't enter Belgium/Schengen).