Mess in AMS today - April 2022 onwards
May 31, 2022, 2:53 am
#586
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Paris/Milan
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May 31, 2022, 3:56 am
#587
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
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You do not have Sky Priority, that is correct. But as a SkyTeam Elite passenger, you are welcome in the SkyPriority checkin area (checkin rows 9-10), which also serves as priority checkin for Elite/Silver passengers. And because of the layout of the airport with a seperate escalator up to security from that area, you are also be able to use priority security at AMS as a bonus feature.
Keep in mind: this is only the case for non-schengen flights on KL, AF or DL.
Keep in mind: this is only the case for non-schengen flights on KL, AF or DL.
May 31, 2022, 4:17 am
#588
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: AMS/RTM
Posts: 2,827
What is the policy on +1s? I have two upcoming trips this summer on KL. The first one has 5 more people without status so I don't expect to be able to go through the SP line, but in the second I'm flying to ABZ with just a companion: any chance we'd be allowed to both go through the SP lane? I have Elite Plus status through ITA (don't laugh), which I think KL recognizes quite well.
May 31, 2022, 4:55 am
#589
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London
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May 31, 2022, 6:20 am
#590
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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Was going to say the same.. the security checks at departures 2 and 1 feed into the same connected area before passport control
May 31, 2022, 12:37 pm
#591
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: AMS/RTM
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Apparently Schiphol and the unions have found an agreement to move forward, however travelers should still expect long lines and delays over the summer.
May 31, 2022, 5:23 pm
#593
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May 31, 2022, 9:13 pm
#594
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 757
Holland is exactly half as many letters , everybody gets it, and only the pedantic get upset. So I'll continue using it, just as I'll keep saying Turkey, whether Erdogan likes it or not.
Thanks for the heads-up, though. I've lived in both provinces, I've looked at them from above 1,000+ times, and somewhere I have an Atheneum diploma with an excellent grade for geography (my written exam essay was on the history of air navigation inHolland). I figure I've got Holland down pat, but just to keep myself sharp, I spend my time during AMS approaches and departures putting names to cities, towns, villages, lakes, rivers, canals, freeways, etc. My idea of fun.
Johan
Thanks for the heads-up, though. I've lived in both provinces, I've looked at them from above 1,000+ times, and somewhere I have an Atheneum diploma with an excellent grade for geography (my written exam essay was on the history of air navigation in
Johan
Jun 1, 2022, 1:50 am
#596
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: AMS+IAH
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The news of Schiphol Summer runway works :
https://www.schiphol.nl/en/schiphol-...nce-and-works/
Has reached mainstream media:
https://www.schiphol.nl/en/schiphol-...nce-and-works/
Has reached mainstream media:
Last edited by HadesNL; Jun 1, 2022 at 1:59 am
Jun 1, 2022, 2:10 am
#597
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Good Lord in Heaven!
It's not going to help solve anything in the short run, but this Benschop clown should be booted out forthwith. That he spent his time hobnobbing in Davos, taking his family on vacation to Portugal during the Meivakantie (spring break) catastrophe, bobbing around in a boat on Amsterdam's canals on Koningsdag, attending a gala dinner in DC, etc. etc. is bad enough, even though he claims that he "could always be reached". This runway maintenance planning really takes the prize. Work that easily could and should have been done during the pandemic was not only postponed in true Dutch penny-pinching style, but then rescheduled for the busiest periods of this year.
Surely there's a penalty for sheer bloody-minded idiocy? At least this once?
Johan
It's not going to help solve anything in the short run, but this Benschop clown should be booted out forthwith. That he spent his time hobnobbing in Davos, taking his family on vacation to Portugal during the Meivakantie (spring break) catastrophe, bobbing around in a boat on Amsterdam's canals on Koningsdag, attending a gala dinner in DC, etc. etc. is bad enough, even though he claims that he "could always be reached". This runway maintenance planning really takes the prize. Work that easily could and should have been done during the pandemic was not only postponed in true Dutch penny-pinching style, but then rescheduled for the busiest periods of this year.
Surely there's a penalty for sheer bloody-minded idiocy? At least this once?
Johan
Jun 1, 2022, 2:14 am
#598
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: AMS+IAH
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For those planning flights from Amsterdam airport this summer.
Rijksoverheid shows the dates for annual school holidays:
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwe...ties-2021-2022
You can get an impression which weekends ( the actual start of the school sumner holidays) (per region) will become busy at Schiphol airport. Besides departures, don't forget about the expected increase at arrivals. So be warned!
Rijksoverheid shows the dates for annual school holidays:
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwe...ties-2021-2022
You can get an impression which weekends ( the actual start of the school sumner holidays) (per region) will become busy at Schiphol airport. Besides departures, don't forget about the expected increase at arrivals. So be warned!
Jun 1, 2022, 2:22 am
#599
Join Date: Jan 2011
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By his same maintenance budget and logic
the emergency [EJECT] button has also been made redundant
Jun 1, 2022, 2:26 am
#600
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: AMS
Programs: SPG Plat
Posts: 130
It doesn't change the fact that using "Holland" to refer to the country is antiquated and incorrect. The official name is the Netherlands.