IAN-UK

A perverse response.


In common with other airlines intent on establishing "hub" credentials, but with limited schedules, SN provides accommodation for certain fare classes where same day connections are simply not possible. You may have to ask for it, but it's there.

Whether you call this a perk or sensible business practice is immaterial. It's certainly not a natural law of the universe. But it happens.

And where it happens the hotel accommodation generally reflects the cabin the passenger is travelling in.

Ghentleman

Perverse? Let's not make this a discussion about semantics. I just wanted to get more insight into your situation as I have never heard about SN offering this.
In this case, I understand a hotel room wasn't advertised, you asked for it and they offered you the Ibis but you want to stay in the Sheraton, which is about 3x more expensive. By all means, get back to SN and ask for it.

IAN-UK

Well, almost. The quid pro quo for flying via an overnight connection on a third tier airline was (1) a fare which reflected the inconvenience and (2) overnight accommodation at BRU.


I got both, and managed to enlighten you on the way

IAN-UK

oops! duplicate

IAN-UK

Further elucidation in the extract from an (admittedly rather old) procedures manual of Brussels Airlines:

Hotel accommodation may be offered to all passengers travelling on inbound or onward connections to and from Africa, provided no same-day outbound or inbound SN/SN flight number connection exists.
Bookings must be SN/SN for the entire journey, both in- and outbound. Passengers must hold tickets in
- C or D class
- Full economy fare
- Other economy class tickets provided the prorated SN value of the ticket
is 900 USD or above (tax excluded), except if previous approval from
Pricing received Only 1 night will be absorbed.




There's a hierarchy of hotels ranked by price. SN's rate at the Sheraton is currently EUR73, and at the Ibis EUR55.

pkriticos

Hello Flyertalkers,

Could anyone advise me whether this itinerary is doable in terms of the layover time at BRU ?
Also, I would be grateful if someone could inform me what to expect and what is the MCT (Minimum Connecting Time) in this situation.
SN2064 EDI 16:55 --- BRU 19:35

SN6523 BRU 20:30---ATH 00:35 +1

SN6523 is operated by A3.

Cheers.

AlicorporateUK

Hi @pkriticos,

There’s actually a dedicated thread which has lots of useful tips in regards to BRU, including -needless to say- connections.

Back to the original query and assuming your itinerary is booked under one single PNR, this is indeed a ‘doable’ connection, however bear in mind that you will have to go through security and clear passports on your way from B to A, this (i.e. getting off the plane and walk to your next gate) could take up to 15/20 minutes overall and depending on how busy it is. As you can imagine and in light of the above, a delay of your EDI flight could potentially compromise your onward connection. Data-point: I often connect around that time (coming from Birmingham and heading to Warsaw) and both security & passports are normally plain sailing; also, in case of delay, one of the flight assistants will be handing a card which will allow you to use the fast track at security.

i hope this helps.

G

oliver2002

New (Belgian) rules?

LandMiler

I'll have 75min connection on OSL-BRU-NRT on Friday night.
I guess BRU-NRT flight departs from terminal gate B.
Does anyone know which gate OSL-BRU(SN2284) will arrive?

I really happy if I can take a shower in SN lounge before a long-haul flight.

ChrisBub

It depends day to day, but in my experience the OSL-BRU gate is usually in the A50s. You won’t need to re-clear security, just passport control. On a normal day you should have enough time (I would say around 10-15 mins to walk to B Gates, but last week, for example, there were huge queues at security and passport control, around the time of the NRT flight. So it really depends on the day.

Mict

If you have a European passport, it will be fast. Otherwise it really depends. As said above, sometimes the line is empty, other times is very busy...

LandMiler

Thank you ChrisBub and Micr.

These flights are return-flight after holidays and actually a part of MR for ANA status.
I believe if I delay for BRU-NRT, ANA puts me tomorrows flight with the same condition as they are in one itinerary. (NH5168/SN2284 & NH232)
Staying one night in BRU seems better than tight connection without taking a shower as long as ANA pays my lodging.

KDeamandel

Hey LandMiler,

Generally in theory this flights arrives at A42 or or somewhere in the 50's and your flight to Tokio will leave from gate B5

Kr,
Kevin

NiCre

Note that the SN lounge in the non-Schengen terminal doesn't have any showers. There are reports on people being allowed to use the showers in the next door Diamond lounge, but I've never tried it myself.

You can always try to shower at the Schengen SN Lounge, but there are two issues 1)You'd still have to clear immigration after your shower, which I find risky as the queues can be long at immigration and 2)the ladies at the desk of the Schengen lounge told me they are soon going to refuse entry to people flying out of terminal B.

LandMiler

Thank you for all comments. I'm back.

I could take a shower in Diamond lounge for quick even SN2284 delayed 10min.
There were only 3 people in passport control for all passport or non-EU citizen lane while EU lane had 10-15 people.
I could arrive Diamond lounge via SN lounge 35mins after landing, it's scheduled boarding time.