2020 Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI) latest news

[TLspotting]

Making the Brussels South Charleroi Airport site secure: Work on the esplanade and the border control building will begin on 12 November 2020

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brus ... mber-2020/

[flightlover]

Can we expect a rise in airport taxes to pay for all the works going on at this airport?
Dumb question, I know...

[TLspotting]

The airport has become really quiet with an average of 6 flights per day !

[sn26567]

[Passenger]

The skiing holidays (February and March 2020) were blamed as the main corona spreader for 'wave 1' in our country.

Press reports about last weekends' chaos at CRL will probably blame the Christmas holiday makers (mostly VFR traffic) as main cause for the '3th wave'.

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See also 'verontwaardiging' en 'verbijstering' (outrage and bewilderment/stupefaction) in the titles in these Dutch (.be and .nl) press reports:
https://www.hln.be/reizen/verontwaardig ... ~a0d9683a/
and
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/verbijster ... ~a0d9683a/
and
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20201221_97993854
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https://www.dhnet.be/regions/charleroi/ ... 44d1b95ba5

[nordikcam]

The skiing holidays (February and March 2020) were blamed as the main corona spreader for 'wave 1' in our country.

Press reports about last weekends' chaos at CRL will probably blame the Christmas holiday makers (mostly VFR traffic) as main cause for the '3th wave'.

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See also 'verontwaardiging' en 'verbijstering' (outrage and bewilderment/stupefaction) in the titles in these Dutch (.be and .nl) press reports:
https://www.hln.be/reizen/verontwaardig ... ~a0d9683a/
and
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/verbijster ... ~a0d9683a/
and
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20201221_97993854
and
https://www.dhnet.be/regions/charleroi/ ... 44d1b95ba5

You ( not you Passenger ) will have to explain to me in understandable words what an "essential" trip is.

[Passenger]

You ( not you Passenger ) will have to explain to me in understandable words what an "essential" trip is.

European Council - Covid-19 - specific categories of travellers with an essential function or need:

1. Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals;
2. Frontier workers;
3. Seasonal workers in agriculture;
4. Transport personnel;
5. Diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions;
6. Passengers in transit;
7. Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons;
8. Seafarers;
9. Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons;
10. Third-country nationals travelling for the purpose of study;
11. Highly qualified third-country workers if their employment is necessary from an economic perspective and the work cannot be postponed or performed abroad.

[nordikcam]

You ( not you Passenger ) will have to explain to me in understandable words what an "essential" trip is.

European Council - Covid-19 - specific categories of travellers with an essential function or need:

1. Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals;
2. Frontier workers;
3. Seasonal workers in agriculture;
4. Transport personnel;
5. Diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions;
6. Passengers in transit;
7. Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons;
8. Seafarers;
9. Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons;
10. Third-country nationals travelling for the purpose of study;
11. Highly qualified third-country workers if their employment is necessary from an economic perspective and the work cannot be postponed or performed abroad.

Thanx, for sure, on the photo, a lot of travellers in need of international protection, a lot of diplomats or seasonal workers in agriculture. Maybe a lot of health researchers...or third country nationals !

[Shonix]

Hahaha keep on laughing.

BRU this weekend. Total chaos.

Source: https://m.rtl.be/info/1269769

[Passenger]

Hahaha keep on laughing.

BRU this weekend. Total chaos.

Source: https://m.rtl.be/info/1269769

You are right: such queues are unacceptable. Apparently the Border Police at Brussels Airport adapted their method to check if the passengers had registered their Passenger Locator From.

No chaos at Charleroi Airport indeed last weekend because they simply do not check the Passenger Locator Form there, as a reporter from De Morgen has noticed:
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/ik-ben-n ... ~b9a5a474/
https://www.hln.be/reizen/ik-ben-nog-no ... ~a9a5a474/

[Acid-drop]

Medriocrity and negligence is the norm anywhere in belgium it seems.

[nordikcam]

Medriocrity and negligence is the norm anywhere in belgium it seems.

Belgium where only travelers who must (essential) travel can do so ... and on the photos of Charleroi or BRU we only see :

Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals; frontier workers; seasonal workers in agriculture; transport personnel;
Diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions;
passengers in transit; passengers travelling for imperative family reasons; seafarers; persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons; third-country nationals travelling for the purpose of study or maybe they are highly qualified third-country workers if their employment is necessary from an economic perspective and the work cannot be postponed or performed abroad. Yeap sarcasm !

[sn26567]

on the photos of Charleroi or BRU we only see :

Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals; frontier workers; seasonal workers in agriculture; transport personnel;
Diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions;
passengers in transit; passengers travelling for imperative family reasons; seafarers; persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons; third-country nationals travelling for the purpose of study or maybe they are highly qualified third-country workers if their employment is necessary from an economic perspective and the work cannot be postponed or performed abroad.

That's a lot of people and that explains the long queues at BRU and CRL.