Connecting in Brussels [BRU]
Sep 13, 2023, 3:03 am
#331
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 9,125
I am contemplating KL AMS-BRU connecting to QR BRU-DOH on separate tickets. 90 minute transfer time hand luggage only.
Is it possible to get the QR boarding pass at a transfer desk or do I need to go to the QR check-in counter.
Is it possible to get the QR boarding pass at a transfer desk or do I need to go to the QR check-in counter.
Sep 13, 2023, 10:51 pm
#333
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Europe
Programs: M&M mainly
Posts: 318
You will be deboarding into A gate and walking towards B gates, I do not remember any transfer desk on the way. But maybe after passport control in the B gates area, there is one? do not travel often enough to non-Schengen destinations to know for sure.
Sep 14, 2023, 4:39 am
#334
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Barcelona, Catalunya
Posts: 2,108
If you leave from Amsterdam (the city), and if your timing permits it, consider taking the train. The intercity trains from Amsterdam have a stop at BRU airport.
There are hourly trains, travel time is 2h20, and you avoid the departure from AMS.
https://www.nsinternational.com/en
There are hourly trains, travel time is 2h20, and you avoid the departure from AMS.
https://www.nsinternational.com/en
Sep 14, 2023, 7:11 am
#336
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 9,125
If you leave from Amsterdam (the city), and if your timing permits it, consider taking the train. The intercity trains from Amsterdam have a stop at BRU airport.
There are hourly trains, travel time is 2h20, and you avoid the departure from AMS.
https://www.nsinternational.com/en
There are hourly trains, travel time is 2h20, and you avoid the departure from AMS.
https://www.nsinternational.com/en
Sep 23, 2023, 6:33 am
#338
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Barcelona, Catalunya
Posts: 2,108
Strange. No passport control before getting to the gates?
Did you maybe leave from the "T" gates? (This is basically the same area as the A gates for the Schengen departures / arrivals, but in the morning they close that end of the building off with some passport control booths.)
Did you maybe leave from the "T" gates? (This is basically the same area as the A gates for the Schengen departures / arrivals, but in the morning they close that end of the building off with some passport control booths.)
Sep 23, 2023, 1:32 pm
#339
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 9,125
Strange. No passport control before getting to the gates?
Did you maybe leave from the "T" gates? (This is basically the same area as the A gates for the Schengen departures / arrivals, but in the morning they close that end of the building off with some passport control booths.)
Did you maybe leave from the "T" gates? (This is basically the same area as the A gates for the Schengen departures / arrivals, but in the morning they close that end of the building off with some passport control booths.)
Also no security or passport check in Doha.
Last edited by erik123; Sep 24, 2023 at 2:20 am
Sep 26, 2023, 2:27 am
#340
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Barcelona, Catalunya
Posts: 2,108
And you got to the lounge, from your AMS flight (which arrived at an A gate, I suppose), without passport checks? (Sorry to go on about this, but this really is very different from what normally happens at BRU...)
No security check on such a connection (arriving from AMS) is normal.
No security check on such a connection (arriving from AMS) is normal.
Sep 26, 2023, 4:59 am
#341
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 9,125
And you got to the lounge, from your AMS flight (which arrived at an A gate, I suppose), without passport checks? (Sorry to go on about this, but this really is very different from what normally happens at BRU...)
No security check on such a connection (arriving from AMS) is normal.
No security check on such a connection (arriving from AMS) is normal.
Sep 26, 2023, 8:52 am
#342
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DEN
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Posts: 3,930
Sep 27, 2023, 2:59 am
#343
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
Posts: 9,125
Maybe this will jog your memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZGCunCXzs0
There certainly should have been immigration control on your way to the B gates.
There certainly should have been immigration control on your way to the B gates.
Oct 25, 2023, 4:18 am
#344
Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: UK - the nearest airport is named after a motorway !
Posts: 4,235
using departure lounge as arrivals lounge on long layover?
Looking at an ABJ-BRU-LHR ticket with a long (14 hour) layover in BRU, with intent to get a train to AMS for some meetings during the layover. Is it possible to access the departure lounge on arrival at 5 something am, have a shower and some breakfast, and then leave through immigration to go to AMS? [something I do very often in IST on similar layovers]. No issues with visa, etc, it's the technicalities I'm interested in.
Side question - is there any left luggage facility at BRU for a rollaboard size bag, to save carting it around for the day?
Any relevant experience appreciated
Thanks
Side question - is there any left luggage facility at BRU for a rollaboard size bag, to save carting it around for the day?
Any relevant experience appreciated
Thanks
Oct 25, 2023, 5:20 am
#345
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: HAG
Programs: Der 5* FTL
Posts: 8,065
As long as it's same day and not next day departure, you can enter the lounge and leave it and then enter it again later.
There's lockers at level 0: https://www.brusselsairport.be/en/pa...uggage-lockers
There's lockers at level 0: https://www.brusselsairport.be/en/pa...uggage-lockers