BRU exit passport control has long been a mess too often. Add in a collection of CBP personnel to another area at BRU and there is yet another bottleneck to make BRU an even worse airport to use than is already the case.

BRU is an airport that barely makes it with direct US-BRU passenger service except in what are the best of times for long-haul flying airlines. With the long tail of Covid-19 hitting international traffic demand, the use case for a CBP preclearance facility at BRU should be considered even worse than pre-pandemic. This CBP Preclearnace football should be punted down the street to be discarded unless and until such facility would mean the cost for staffing and operating the CBP preclearance facility at BRU would be lower than in say IAD and ORD.

CBP Preclearance at BRU would mean travelers paying CBP more for CBP personnel to have a hyper-privileged working sojourn abroad that is more expensive for the travelers than if those very same CBP personnel were kept working state-side.