Originally Posted by
Romanianflyer
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)
[Slightly OT] As you rightly point out, passport checks won't come into play for a transfer within the non-Schengen's 'wing' (i.e. B - apart from those one-off random checks, like yesterday at CDG arriving at 2F, where all Schengen arrivals were conveyed downstairs in order to go through passports), it is true however that immigration first in the morning can get pretty chaotic (and that's possibly an understatement) at BRU, my experience being one transit a week for a long[ish] period of time during my commute WAW-BHX (via BRU indeed): unless you're handed the 'red tag' by the crew in order to go through the fast-lane (due to late arrival into BRU), then you'd very likely be joining a painful queue with several people trying to squeeze through the fast-lane and being sent all over the back of the queue because of 'non-eligibility' (not to mention that there were often only a couple of e-gates open along with 2 agents on the other side checking non-EU passports adding to misery, basically a joke). [/OT]
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