Xandrios

I'm surprised hearing about the Skypriority escalator being guarded. Thats something new indeed. And definitely not something that is happening all the time.

Less than 14 days, so the whole compensation topic will start popping up. Is all of this "Unforeseen circumstances" or simply mismanagement that the industry has created themselves (and thus is responsible for)?

If KLM is supposed to cancel enough flights to reduce the number of 'excessive' pax by half, that still means that other airlines will have to account for the other half. While KLM has some more options by increasing the number of transfer pax, most other airlines won't be able to. So the larger *A and OW operators will have to reduce capacity greatly. And in order to not fly half empty aircraft I'm expecting to see flights being cancelled soon..

And also in that situation the question regarding passenger rights will come up. A whole bunch of nastyness with cancelled flights and unwillingness to rebook onto other carriers that are still operating is probably going to happen..

UVAhoo06

Just called AF and got re-booked the same flight; the agent confirmed that AMS-HAM was still operating (with me arrive a little before noon in HAM). So...not sure what to make of this?

The alternative is to fly via CDG with a 70 min connection and arrive at 5:10 PM.

What would you all do?

jkenn

My flight tomorrow from AMS to DUB is cancelled. The KLM rep I reached out to on twitter mentioned something about a provision where you can change your flight to a different arrival airport, without charge, so long as it's within 300 miles. Thinking about a different flight, does this also apply to the departure airport? What other limitations apply to this rule? Thanks

BER Flyer

Arrived in AMS today on DL 49 ( around three hours late ) around 11.40 am and the lines for rebooking were....endless. I would estimate that around 30% off all pax from my flight missed their connections. Went to the Lounge for rebooking, got the last available seat to Berlin untill tommorrow afternoon.
I feel really bad for those that spend maybe 3 hours in the "Transfer" lines only the hear "sorry no more seats left to your destination today..". And it was a fine day weatherwise, what are they going to do in july when half of europe is on holidays? As others wrote it's going ugly this summer.

arf04

With the many reports of delays at AMS I’m wondering if the meet and assist service might be worth considering for our upcoming YYC-AMS-NUE transit in early July. We have 2:10 in AMS to make the connection, which seems like it should be enough but some of the reports are not the most inspiring!

At the moment, I want to wait to see if our AMS-NUE flight (and return) is cancelled due to the upcoming restrictions—but in any case I’d be happy to hear thoughts on the meet and assist service and how much it might help ease the transfer.

johan rebel

An Elite colleague of mine traveled with a non-Elite last Tuesday, and had no difficulties using Sky Priority check-in / bag drop and Sky Priority security together. Guess it all depends on how busy it is.

Johan

etiene

Do SkyPriority benefits apply to companions, or is that something that was common but unofficial back when Schiphol ran well? Reason being my guess here...

...was going to be an agent well versed in SkyTeam policy and not well versed in oneworld policy.

jimkwatson

Friend just messaged me, he’s at Schiphol now flying to UK …

“Nightmare at Schiphol -
Arrived at airport early as instructed
We took exactly FOUR HOURS to get through security 🤬
Got to gate at 1850 for 1855 departure!
Flight is now delayed!!!”

So much for afternoons being quieter!?

Digicola

Timestamp says around 9:30 so a bit before you got there.


On a side note, my flight to CDG left with over 30 passengers missing because they were stuck in security according to the FA announcement. We ended up having to offload their bags and leave because we were already delayed by almost 30 mins.

wooootles

How is the passport control line going from non-schengen to schengen?
I have a DTW>AMS>CPH trip coming up. I am flying premium select (1st row) so I will be among the first pax deplaning after Delta One, but my layover is less than 2 hours.
Cause for concern? Much of what I hear on this thread is entering AMS from Amsterdam, maybe I just missed posts about transfers.

atflyer

No clue. From what I saw today, NS-S was a line of < 2 hours. Formally the should rebook you if there are problems, but look at my story from LHR yesterday. And being first out of a plane does not say a lot. How many planes did land before you and clogged the immigration (see one of my posts above? At 11 am line was doable, when Digicola passed a few hours earlier it was madness).
Status of Air France-KLM at LHR Terminal 4 No 16

as9632

Flying out of AMS to DTW tomorrow at 1pm. Flying on D1 so I have access to the priority lanes for whatever good it does. Should I use the lane at Departure 2 or Departure 3? Is Departure 3 generally less busy than 2 or it doesn't matter?

johan rebel

If the past few weeks are any indication, KL1129 gets canceled twice or thrice a week, and the remaining flights are mostly delayed. About six KL1133 flights get canceled every week too, and the remaining one is often badly late. The other flights are rarely canceled, but only KL1125 is reliably on time these days.

Johan

FlyingFrZ

So even staying airside, going from NS-S was over 2hrs?

Would having Skypriority have helped or is there no priority line at airside immigration?

johan rebel

Privium only.

Johan