Hi all.

Firstly, I would like to point out that just because I haven't been to AMS does not mean that I have not suffered lots of flights on NW via Detroit to everywhere in the US. Hence retaining the KLM card but not the Gold level. However, if this fax KLM and ask thing works... Still I did not need to use the word "suffer" as everyone knows that about the "flying coffin" service from LGW.

The picture link in an earlier reply shows my taxiway quite nicely at the bottom of the picture. The 11 km route was to have been:
Start in the top left with the landing point on the runway and then go along the runway/parallel taxiway to the end before turning left (actually moving to the right of the photo). Then you come to the part of the taxiway that heads towards you on the left of the main runway shown on the photo. This was to have routed away from you to the North and out slightly. This would then have disappeared off over a kilometre to the North of the runway shown and then come back down to join the current taxiway on the right of the photo.

From there you would take the left turn parallel to 09 and move to the right centre of the photo and disappear off round the KLM heavy parking area (was this the G gates?) and eventually D. Otherwise, if the taxiways were being maintained then over the road bridge with the aircraft on it, to the freight area and the remote stands (B gates, hey you must have made something out of the B Gates before. Do the turboprops keep crashing because of a Windows problem?). The Northern Taxiway was not constructed in the first phase. My recommendations were for runway crossings which do not appear in the photo as well as the current taxiway to the South.

ATC wise, the southern taxiway is a lot easier to manage than crossings and at lower risk exposure (but still safe enough). Capital expenditure wise the crossings were cheaper.

So you feel better, I lost so much money carrying out that consultancy project for the taxiway system that I nearly went bankrupt. Cannot remember how many millions of (insert currency of choice) I saved with that idea (on the basis of a shorter taxiway capital cost) but if I had 10% of it then I would not be posting this from my office at 1921 on a Sunday evening five years later.

JenBel, are you going to organise another beerfest during the Edi fringe?

Tot ziens