Originally Posted by
Mats
My college roommate, a surgeon, not prone to exaggeration, and a frequent world traveler, said that he will not go through Amsterdam again.
He felt that their questioning was almost hostile in nature, and that their frisking at the gate was "very intimate."
This was for a KLM (not NW) flight from Schipol to Boston earlier this year.
I'd like to think that his experience was an exception and not routine.
There's a shaved head "security" person who often enough works the regular security screening checkpoint between the non-Schengen and Schengen areas at AMS and I've seen him stick his hands down people's pants more than once there when frisking people.