Never ending queues at Brussels Airport on Monday evening as hundreds of passengers wanted to travel through the airport’s Schengen border, where a passport check is mandatory between Belgium (Europe) and outside the Schengen zone for arriving and departing passengers.
According to a few passengers that wanted to cross the Schengen border, only one booth was manned. Passenger Kathy Flake rushed to social media and explained that it took her four (!!) hours to pass the passport control. Another passenger counted three hours, while another one three hours and forty minutes.
“Well done Brussels Airport for having 1 kiosk open for international passport control,” Edward Scott said on social media. “Brussels has always been my favorite city. But I’d never flown into Brussels Airport before. What a nightmare. Will never fly here again. Almost four hours in passport queue. It’s almost like…they don’t want you to visit. If I wanted that I’d go to Paris!” Kathy Flake added.
According to Brussels Airport, the queues are the result of staffing problems at the Federal Police, nonetheless a terrible performance for the airport located in the heart of Europe.
https://twitter.com/Sufy0011/status/1673404841165484055
Niets nieuws, in Mei ook ex-BRU quasi 1uur moeten aanschuiven (met kleine kinderen dan nog) en in-BRU 1u+
(Neen, met kinderen mag je niet door de automatische hekjes)
Typisch Brussel, voelt altijd aan alsof men in een derde wereld land is.
Ach meneer, ik heb begin juni ook meer dan een uur aangeschoven aan de immigratie in Montreal, en vorig jaar in juli dik 2 uur in Washington (DC). En de beelden al vergeten van vorig jaar in Amsterdam waar de pasagiers tot buiten de terminal aanschoven voor de securitycontrole? Zijn dat dan ook allemaal derdewereld-landen?
Ik heb bij vertrek naar Montreal in Brussel welgeteld nul minuten aangeschoven bij de paspoortcontrole en misschien maximaal 5 bij security. Het is wat het is: vliegen is een loterij tegenwoordig, wat betreft aanschuiven, afschaffingen en vertragingen, stakingen allerhande…
Well said! Deze week ongeveer 1000 passagiers, in de volle zon (36 graden) bij aankomst in Kos (Griekenland) met de ferry. Vier (4) uren om door de douane te gaan.
Last week, I flew out of Brussels to Canada. And I almost missed my flight due to the looooong queue of Passport Control.
I asked the staff on the queue several times if there was any way I can make it to the gate, but the lady was like “It’s OK, everyone is waiting on the same line” And never took me serious.
I figured I wouldn’t make it to the flight, so I skipped 30 or so people, apologizing. And yes, indeed there was only 1 man controlling the Non-EU passengers!!! I was speechless. Why? Why can possibly Belgium, the EU’s capital country’s main airport let this horrible madness keep going? Why, i don’t understand it…
And again, this is not an inbound flight to Belgium (yes, inbound is another nightmare), but it’s OUTBOUND! What do you have to check so slowly for people being out of the country?
Brussels airport, I really want you to change this situation ASAP.
Ik zoek mijn vriendin
Ik weet niet dat zij aangekomen is
Zij naar het schijnt ud zij zaterdag vertrokken vanaf san sebastian in Spanje en sinds zaterdag heb ik niets meer gehoord
Ik weet niet of zij her in zaventem in een immigratie centrum is
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