Mess in AMS today - April 2022 onwards
#721
Join Date: Jun 2012
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It's precisely because the pax are "spread around" that should actually help. There are options available around Europe that aren't available in Schiphol right now. I imagine there probably aren't any hotel rooms available anywhere around Schiphol either, so bringing connecting pax to Schiphol would be awful right now.
Don't understand why they won't carry those terminating in AMS - probably to avoid the scenario of rioting connecting pax when they are turned away even as others are allowed to board.
Don't understand why they won't carry those terminating in AMS - probably to avoid the scenario of rioting connecting pax when they are turned away even as others are allowed to board.
I am bound for Boston via Paris in a week. Can only pray the chaos is less.
#722
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Addition - some suggest that wind is a problem and that they hence face runway restrictions. I am in den Haag, 50 km from Schiphol, weather is perfect, a nice, no wind Summer evening. Does not make sense. Seems that the pax issue is the only reason for this meltdown, there is no other word for it.
#723
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: mostly not far from AMS, otherwise NUE
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I have witnessed that first hand a few years ago when AMS was down due to snow, all pax with connections in AMS were denied boarding at the outstation, and a handful of passengers, me included, were allowed to board because AMS was our final destination.
#724
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Johan
#725
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Today's hourly weather report for AMS - we have 19-20 km/hour or force 3 or less on average, 40-50 degrees (so coming from the NE)....how can this be so disruptive?
https://www.weer1.com/europe/netherl...ate=2022-06-04
https://www.weer1.com/europe/netherl...ate=2022-06-04
#726
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Behind the curtain
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Crikey, seems it just keeps getting worse in AMS.
I've got business in the Netherlands next week and booked on an orange plane Monday and Friday. Not looking forward to the experience, and starting to wonder if I should be looking at Eurostar. 5 hours on a train has to be better than 4 hours in a security queue, right?
I've got business in the Netherlands next week and booked on an orange plane Monday and Friday. Not looking forward to the experience, and starting to wonder if I should be looking at Eurostar. 5 hours on a train has to be better than 4 hours in a security queue, right?
#727
Join Date: Jan 2022
Location: VLC
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Today's hourly weather report for AMS - we have 19-20 km/hour or force 3 or less on average, 40-50 degrees (so coming from the NE)....how can this be so disruptive?
https://www.weer1.com/europe/netherl...ate=2022-06-04
https://www.weer1.com/europe/netherl...ate=2022-06-04
#728
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The wind at AMS has been blowing from the northeast for days now:
Not much of a wind if you ask me, but since last Thursday there's only been one runway available for arrivals (Kaagbaan, mostly), and one or two for departures. Other major airports somehow manage just fine with two or even only one runway, but not Schiphol.
Now.
Midday today.
Johan
#729
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For any other fellow stranded pax. “Compensation” available in the app. Is this new? Not sure whether it was due to the closed lounge or the 2hr flight delay.
#730
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Only the Kaagbaan and Oostbaan are aligned with the prevailing winds, and the latter is too short to be of much use (although I remember landing on it in an SAA 747, in the teeth of a full-blown hurricane).
Way back in 1949, Jan Dellaert came up with a very clever and prescient runway design for Schiphol. Six runways arranged like offset spokes around a single terminal, with room for another four runways, which would have made 10 (!!!) in total. There was also room to lengthen three of the six first runways.
Something there for every wind direction!
Johan
#731
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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Crikey, seems it just keeps getting worse in AMS.
I've got business in the Netherlands next week and booked on an orange plane Monday and Friday. Not looking forward to the experience, and starting to wonder if I should be looking at Eurostar. 5 hours on a train has to be better than 4 hours in a security queue, right?
I've got business in the Netherlands next week and booked on an orange plane Monday and Friday. Not looking forward to the experience, and starting to wonder if I should be looking at Eurostar. 5 hours on a train has to be better than 4 hours in a security queue, right?
#733
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Ach ja, of course. The Kaagbaan cannot be used for starts from the SW. You cannot use the Polderbaan for landings from the South. You cannot use the Buitenveldertbaan (27/9) for landings from the West. The only way to use 4 runways in with a NE wind would be starting on Polder and Buitenveldert but then landings would be on Kaag and Zwanenburg (18/36C) which would imply that landing traffic crosses each other. Dual use of Zwanenburg (the only runway capable of handling starts and landings) is not of help since the only other landing runway would be Kaag. Schiphol's constellation is disastrous if you have any NE wind with any of the North-South runways out.
Schiphol, build taxiways that allow using Polder for landing from the South, and using Kaag for starting from the SW (although even then starting on Kaag can interfere with starting from Buitenveldert).
Dellearts at his time brilliant plan for tangential runways unfortunately works out as a disaster.
Schiphol, build taxiways that allow using Polder for landing from the South, and using Kaag for starting from the SW (although even then starting on Kaag can interfere with starting from Buitenveldert).
Dellearts at his time brilliant plan for tangential runways unfortunately works out as a disaster.
#734
#735
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