Escape

I will look for this shortcut next week, thank you for the tip

jerry_greece

The shortcut to the lounges (without having to go down and up again) is a bliss!

Xandrios

Indeed, used it yesterday. What was not a bliss though, is that lounge #25 apparently doesn't open before 6AM. Not great when you are booked on the 6:50 AM flight to CDG!

Escape

I’ve had this a few times, I have the impression this is due to Covid, I might be wrong. I believe to have used it before Covid before 06:00AM.

Escape

Found it on Friday morning at 05:30

johan rebel

And the lady was rushing to make her short connection?

Johan

Fabo.sk

Security hit and miss as always at Schiphol, though I have found that at least my personal items now rarely go into secondary.
Also not needing to remove liquids and electronics makes stuff easier.

I am still confused by the layout though.
If I am not mistaken, there are no less than 3 priority lanes to the Departures 1 security upstairs - not counting the closed 1A, and the (also closed?) temporary security just off C pier.

You can
1. Go up the stairs on the "road" side of the concourse
2. Go up the stairs from the SkyPriority zone
3. enter from the entrance on the Check-in 1-8 side.

Any of these might actually function as a priority lane... or not.

johan rebel

I'm must confess that I sailed right through last week. No queue, no secondary. The experience was surreal.

And yes, it is confusing. The annoying thing is that there's no way of knowing which of an unknown number of open priority lanes has the shortest lines, and which of them is being policed to prevent non-eligible pax from sneaking in.

After some trial and error, I've decided to use the SkyPriority zone escalator, which is closest to the Privium ClubLounge. Once upstairs I take a look at the T2 priorty checkpoint, and if it looks too busy I go around two corners to the T1 one instead.

Johan

Fabo.sk

That is probably the best solution.

Xandrios

My bags still go to secondary regularly. A few times in a row because of...my wallet. Same question every time: Do you have a stack of business cards in there?

And every time its my wallet with some bank cards, FF cards, etc. Which is something, I would assume, that is very common. Same for business cards actually.... I'd imagine a rather large percentage of SkyPriority pax to actually have a set of cards in their bag. I know I do when I fly for business (Though funny enough those never actually caused my bag to go to secondary).

johan rebel

We all know that business cards are very dangerous weapons, especially when stacked. A pile of 150,000 or so can easily be used to bring down the biggest of airliners.

Johan

johan rebel

This morning was a breeze, all the agents at the priority checkpoint were standing and sitting around, just waiting for me. No secondary either. Regular lanes very quiet. Yet the airport is busyish, the drop-off zone even packed with cars. KL Schengen lounge from packed, though. I'm alone in the Privium Express Lounge.

Johan

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flyerCO

How do you know? The one thing I hate at AMS is agents send everything to 2ndry. They do it even knowing what item is. Have an Epipen? They know exactly what it looks like. Still they send to 2ndry. Agent there looks at screen, says Epipen? You say yes, and off you go. It appears they don't even get why it was sent. (Also they appear upset at their colleague)

However staff at the connection checkpoint always seem ok. Same case,, same exact items,, never sent to 2ndry there once..

johan rebel

I look at the number of bags on the belt to secondary, and how big the crowd is waiting there.

Johan

Fabo.sk

I have recently learned ITA is now being handled from out in T1A, and since I had a B15 departure, I decided to go give the Security 1A a try.

Well, that was a long walk for nothing. It's apparently "broken".

Walked back to the downstairs entrance by check-in zone 3, and priority security was shambles... The entrance is supposed to be for reserved slots and privium only, as I got up the stairs I see a man trying to touch his phone to the Privium card reader? Then he showed something on it to the Schiphol person standing there, I'm assuming the reservation. As we walk in to the scanners, the usher there points us to an empty scanner.. Empty also of security staff. They were readying it to open I guess, but we were shooed away. I spotted a regular lane a bit further that has only one person setting up the boxes, so I make a beeline, but she tried to make me go to the last scanner, with like 10 people waiting for their turn? Like, why??


Secondary was the usual mess including the agent insisting I keep my cosmetics bag in my backpack and me insisting (correctly) it will get send to secondary.