Originally Posted by
BigFlyer
I wonder how it will be programmed to spot a misconnect as opposed to someone who wants to spend some more time in Amsterdam. For example, let's say hypothetically I am connecting through Amsterdam, and want to "miss" the last flight of the day and end up with a forced layover. If I say I missed my connection, will it look to see if I was late in arriving, or just get me on the next flight without checking whether I should have missed my flight?
That's a rhetorical question, I assume no one reading this knows, but it certainly cries out for experimentation.
This is an interesting question, my Schiphol-guru friend says the following:
All arriving and departing flights of KLM are in a system which communicates with the departure control system CODECO.
If an incoming flight is late, meaning the official 50 minutes minimum connecting time is not reached, a robot called "pax-bag mover" identifies the misconnected passengers and puts them on a rebook queue.
So, if your flight is not late but you decide to go to town and show up for a later flight, you will not be identified as NOC (no-connection) but as no-show.
And if you have baggage they will have to offload it (with a definite delay of the departing flight) so I do not think they will be very sympathetic to your story that your incoming flight was late.
That is the theory though, not sure that if, on a day with many operational issues, anyone would check the merits of your story.