Mess in AMS today - April 2022 onwards
Jun 16, 2022, 11:55 am
#976
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Jun 16, 2022, 12:07 pm
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I guess their CEO isn't some politician called Benschop.
Johan
Jun 16, 2022, 12:09 pm
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Well, this ‘crisis’ has been made by AMS themselves. Letting people go, and speculating that the air market was not to come back until 2023. I think most FTs have seen, and guessed, that spring and esp. summer 2022 would become very busy. There was congestion over AMS even in Mar and April already, and passengers have been piling up at the airport since fall 2021. The only time i really saw AMS empty was back in spring 2020. With people vaxed and ready to travel again, AMS made a huge misjudgement.
Jun 16, 2022, 12:49 pm
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thanks everyone for noticing the mistake......
13500 passengers mentioned in the press conference as in:
Striving 13500 per day less passengers travelling from 7th July
Sorry it was connected to:
Met name tussen 7 en 31 juli worden veel reizigers de dupe van de maatregel.
De luchthaven moet in die periode gemiddeld 13.500 passagiers per dag afwijzen
https://nos.nl/index.php/artikel/243...el-gedupeerden
13500 passengers mentioned in the press conference as in:
Striving 13500 per day less passengers travelling from 7th July
Sorry it was connected to:
Met name tussen 7 en 31 juli worden veel reizigers de dupe van de maatregel.
De luchthaven moet in die periode gemiddeld 13.500 passagiers per dag afwijzen
https://nos.nl/index.php/artikel/243...el-gedupeerden
Last edited by HadesNL; Jun 16, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Jun 16, 2022, 12:49 pm
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AMS problems, ARN problems, this problems that problems... what are those managers doing.
SN flies Brussels to Bromma. Seems they will see a good amount of my business this summer. Shame, I could have used some SK legs. Or XPs.
SN flies Brussels to Bromma. Seems they will see a good amount of my business this summer. Shame, I could have used some SK legs. Or XPs.
Jun 16, 2022, 1:02 pm
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Too right, for the summer months i have taken my business to Easyjet for my twice weekly returns to GVA,at this rate i will never achieve Platinum Ultimate.So thanks again mr Benschop for your perrenial incompetence.Maybe you should take a look at Kastrup,they anticipated an increase in Air traffic post Covid,it's hardly rocket-science,ahh i'm sorry,your statements are auto cue only.What a plonker!!
Jun 16, 2022, 1:33 pm
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Even more interesting:
De Consumentenbond bereidt een massaclaim voor voor mensen die losse tickets hebben geboekt. De speciale website gaat morgen online.
Dutch Consumer Rights preparing a website for those passengers who booked individual tickets
and want to claim compensation if those are cancelled,
website going live tomorrow.
Source:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2432943-klm-e...n-bij-schiphol
De Consumentenbond bereidt een massaclaim voor voor mensen die losse tickets hebben geboekt. De speciale website gaat morgen online.
Dutch Consumer Rights preparing a website for those passengers who booked individual tickets
and want to claim compensation if those are cancelled,
website going live tomorrow.
Source:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2432943-klm-e...n-bij-schiphol
Jun 16, 2022, 1:41 pm
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CPH has also been a sort of mess with the regular security screening this year at times, but it’s been much more limited and nothing like the messes at AMS and ARN T5 this year. And so originating out of CPH is my more general preference/recommendation than AMS or ARN ones.
There are several reasons for why CPH hasn’t been as bad as ARN or even AMS when it comes to the main screening checkpoints; and it has less to do with the background of the top manager of the airports than other things that would just be a digression if gotten into.
There are several reasons for why CPH hasn’t been as bad as ARN or even AMS when it comes to the main screening checkpoints; and it has less to do with the background of the top manager of the airports than other things that would just be a digression if gotten into.
Jun 16, 2022, 3:12 pm
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I'm flying from LHR to AMS midday on BA J first week of July. I will then be transferring to a KLM J flight AMS to NCE on a separate ticket.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Jun 16, 2022, 3:28 pm
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I'm flying from LHR to AMS midday on BA J first week of July. I will then be transferring to a KLM J flight AMS to NCE on a separate ticket.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Jun 16, 2022, 3:39 pm
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I'm flying from LHR to AMS midday on BA J first week of July. I will then be transferring to a KLM J flight AMS to NCE on a separate ticket.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Since we need checked luggage on this trip that I will have to collect and recheck, would 2hrs be enough assuming I get in on time?
I feel like thats a pipe dream with what's going on at the moment.
Jun 16, 2022, 4:00 pm
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