Originally Posted by
GUWonder
As it is, with the increased rudeness of AMS passport control, the longer taxi times after touchdown at AMS, the crazy rush at AMS even on a Sunday morning, for me AMS has rather quickly gone from being one of my favorite transit airports in Europe to being an airport I no longer fancy and sometime even actively try to avoid.
Why should the rudeness of passport control matter if you are "purely" in transit?
I do agree with your sentiment though - in previous years I have generally gotten stamped into Schengen without a word, which now only happens occasionally in the Romance-speaking areas, but at AMS they have seemingly started grilling almost everyone; it's almost as bad as the US