Amsterdam Transfer
Dec 3, 2017, 10:07 pm
#16
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No, you will just need to go through passport control in AMS. Your luggage will be transferred for you.
Dec 3, 2017, 10:16 pm
#17
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NYC, MSY
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There is always Privium, you need to go to the special Privium gates at every border control at Schiphol. Fast (security) and border clearance.
Also currently no guests allowed at certain times by KLM @AMS;
As of 1 June 2017 until March 2019 from 07:30 to 11:00 hours (peak hours) the following entry rules apply:
* Lounge vouchers are not accepted.
* Staff and Duty travel customers are not accepted
* Guests of Flying Blue Platinum and Flying Blue Gold and SkyTeam Elite Plus members are only accepted outside peak hours
* Guests of Ultimate, Skipper and C2000 customers are accepted
* Customers travelling to a Schengen destination can make use of the KLM Schengen Crown Lounge (25) instead.
Also currently no guests allowed at certain times by KLM @AMS;
As of 1 June 2017 until March 2019 from 07:30 to 11:00 hours (peak hours) the following entry rules apply:
* Lounge vouchers are not accepted.
* Staff and Duty travel customers are not accepted
* Guests of Flying Blue Platinum and Flying Blue Gold and SkyTeam Elite Plus members are only accepted outside peak hours
* Guests of Ultimate, Skipper and C2000 customers are accepted
* Customers travelling to a Schengen destination can make use of the KLM Schengen Crown Lounge (25) instead.
Does this mean that my wife and I, both Sky Team Elite Plus, can use the Privium gates for Passport Control and each bring one of our kids with us at 06:00, arriving US to AMS connecting KLM AMS-PRG in April?
Dec 4, 2017, 2:43 am
#18
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Berlin, Germany
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Unfortunately not. Privium is an "members only" program which requires paid membership for every person using it. Basic membership ( good for fast immigration but no lounge access ) will cost you 130 Euros - every year!
Dec 4, 2017, 4:04 am
#19
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Pagus Bracbatensis, Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Not as a STE+, you only can use the Privium gates if you are a Privium member. To get that you first have to go through some checks done by the KMAR (and pay a yearly fee). Might be (only) worth it if you travel a lot from/to/through AMS.
Dec 4, 2017, 6:32 am
#21
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ATL
Posts: 637
I'll be taking the family to Rome for thanksgiving flying ATL, Ewr, AMS, FCO ( cheap flight). In Amsterdam Will we have to go through passport controls and if so is there a Sky Prority line I can use as a Delta Gold?
also I'm I correct that I can access the lounges with my wife as DL Gold on all legs?
thanks
also I'm I correct that I can access the lounges with my wife as DL Gold on all legs?
thanks
The non-Schengen to Schengen transition in AMS is passport control only. No customs or baggage. IIRC, the "international" departure lounge is on one level, and the Schengen departure lounge is on the floor directly above it. Schengen and non-Schengen share gates by blocking certain doors and escalators, similar to how international gates are used as domestic gates in some U.S. airports.
AMS can be confusing because the floor plan and gate location depicted do not always make it clear.
The line for the passport control into and out of Schengen can get long. The best approach is to go through passport control to the departure lounge you need to be in an stay there. I saw some people miss flights because they were unaware of this.
Dec 4, 2017, 7:32 am
#22
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Salt Lake City
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"Gate D1"
Piling in on this thread as all Delta flights in AMS now seem to say "Go to Gate D1". After I stood at the D gate entry for the usual "is this luggage yours" questions, they sent me to someplace far off like Gate E that I had to run to to make the time cutoff (well OK, when I got there, there was the usual boarding craziness so it didn't matter).
I am wondering, is this D gate security question stuff no longer possible to do for ST Elites near the KLM lounge as was the case a couple of years back? And, since the D gate luggage security check no longer exists, is it now (more) convenient to pick up a bottle of duty-free at AMS for the trip home?
I am wondering, is this D gate security question stuff no longer possible to do for ST Elites near the KLM lounge as was the case a couple of years back? And, since the D gate luggage security check no longer exists, is it now (more) convenient to pick up a bottle of duty-free at AMS for the trip home?
Dec 4, 2017, 10:23 am
#23
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Piling in on this thread as all Delta flights in AMS now seem to say "Go to Gate D1". After I stood at the D gate entry for the usual "is this luggage yours" questions, they sent me to someplace far off like Gate E that I had to run to to make the time cutoff (well OK, when I got there, there was the usual boarding craziness so it didn't matter).
I am wondering, is this D gate security question stuff no longer possible to do for ST Elites near the KLM lounge as was the case a couple of years back? And, since the D gate luggage security check no longer exists, is it now (more) convenient to pick up a bottle of duty-free at AMS for the trip home?
I am wondering, is this D gate security question stuff no longer possible to do for ST Elites near the KLM lounge as was the case a couple of years back? And, since the D gate luggage security check no longer exists, is it now (more) convenient to pick up a bottle of duty-free at AMS for the trip home?
Dec 4, 2017, 12:56 pm
#24
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: midwest
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Security questions by the L52 lounge entrance is still offered, used it in late October. It isn't offered at all hours of DL departures, though (and I don't know where one finds the hours. I think it closes at 1pm but don't quote me. I know it was closed once when I was planning to use it for a 3:10p departure back to the US and was redirected back to D1)
Dec 4, 2017, 1:41 pm
#25
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: NJ
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Confirming that the DL security podium was outside Crown Lounge 52 as of last week late morning (and incidentally, there was also a podium upstairs from the KL Sky Priority ticket counters, right before you go through security as well).
Dec 4, 2017, 6:42 pm
#26
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You pick up your checked luggage in FRA, you don't see it in AMS.