Privium benefits at AMS for non-EU travelers
Sep 1, 2021, 8:58 pm
#16
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SkyPriority at AMS gives fast track security and lounge access, to the KLM Schengen and nonSchengen lounges. You get SkyPriority from buying premium cabin tickets on KLM and its SkyTeam partners or from flying a SkyTeam carrier as a passenger with SkyTeam ElitePlus status (essentially the Gold or 50,000 status miles annually level).
Sep 1, 2021, 9:18 pm
#17
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In the past US citizens could indeed become a member of Privium if they where a Global Entry member. That was when FLUX-alliance was still a thing, FLUX was discontinued on 1 January 2017 because of RPT-NL that is coming eeeuh...*cough* soon.
Nowadays it's just EEA passport/ID card holders.
Nowadays it's just EEA passport/ID card holders.
Sep 3, 2021, 7:48 am
#18
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I trust you are referring to the Privileged Person ID issued by the Dutch Government to certain diplomatic passort holders, and not the commercial Diplomatic Card that these very same persons can use to e.g. gas up their gas guzzlers tax free (as a contribution to the fight against global warming, of course).
Johan
Johan
Oct 31, 2021, 11:13 am
#19
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I live in The Netherlands, have a Privium card, and a GBR passport. My last 2 visits, post Brexit, means that the eye retina works but I have to be filtered to the passport line.
However I have a Dutch permanent residency card. The immigration officers at the passport desk don’t know this answer (so hoping you guys do) - if I go to the Privium lounge and speak to immigration there can they add details of my residency card so I can fly through retina scan?
I don’t need a stamp in my passport so wondered if anyone had experience of whether they can do something about this?
thanks
However I have a Dutch permanent residency card. The immigration officers at the passport desk don’t know this answer (so hoping you guys do) - if I go to the Privium lounge and speak to immigration there can they add details of my residency card so I can fly through retina scan?
I don’t need a stamp in my passport so wondered if anyone had experience of whether they can do something about this?
thanks
Nov 1, 2021, 5:57 am
#20
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: NYC
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I live in The Netherlands, have a Privium card, and a GBR passport. My last 2 visits, post Brexit, means that the eye retina works but I have to be filtered to the passport line.
However I have a Dutch permanent residency card. The immigration officers at the passport desk don’t know this answer (so hoping you guys do) - if I go to the Privium lounge and speak to immigration there can they add details of my residency card so I can fly through retina scan?
I don’t need a stamp in my passport so wondered if anyone had experience of whether they can do something about this?
thanks
However I have a Dutch permanent residency card. The immigration officers at the passport desk don’t know this answer (so hoping you guys do) - if I go to the Privium lounge and speak to immigration there can they add details of my residency card so I can fly through retina scan?
I don’t need a stamp in my passport so wondered if anyone had experience of whether they can do something about this?
thanks
Nov 8, 2021, 5:40 pm
#21
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I think the underlying principal is that if you have an EU/EEA passport, you have a right to enter the Netherlands. There is no discretion on the part of the KMAR.
For everyone else, including authorized residents, there is some element of discretion for each entry.
For everyone else, including authorized residents, there is some element of discretion for each entry.
Nov 24, 2021, 4:42 am
#22
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To close the loop on this one. I visited the immigration officer in the Privium lounge last week. As BigFlyer states, whilst he was empathetic to the annoyance, he said ultimately they needed to check whether I had my residency card on me or not, every time.
On a different note, although I always have shown the residency card, probably 1 in every 3 visits to the immigration officer has resulted in me having to stop them from stamping my passport as the residency card ensures they don't need to. It always takes them a couple of seconds before they realise they were about to make an error.
On a different note, although I always have shown the residency card, probably 1 in every 3 visits to the immigration officer has resulted in me having to stop them from stamping my passport as the residency card ensures they don't need to. It always takes them a couple of seconds before they realise they were about to make an error.