Yup - Brussels (aka Zaventem, to avoid confusion with what Ryanair call
Brussels, 50km south at Charleroi) is designed to keep you fit. As you
return from the end of Terminal A there's a warning that it's 25mins walk to
some of the farther transit gates.Jez
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My most interesting bit of airport experience was at Brussels. This was in
> the late '90s and I arrived at the very last gate of this extremely long
> terminal. As it was designed at that time, all arrivals were forced to
> walk
> to the far end of this terminal where there was a passport check location.
> Only then could you go upstairs to the departure level. My departing
> flight
> was in the gate next to the one I arrived in. It wouldn't have been that
> big of a deal, except I had no checked baggage so my two carry-ons weighed
> a
> total of around 80 pounds. I think I'm still hurting from that hike. The
> moving sidewalks were only on the second level and they only turned them on
> later in the morning.
>
> AG
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