thehyrax

How’s SkyPriority/Privium right now with the lines? I’ve heard rumors of people having both still having to stand in that line outside? Traveling next week Sunday so getting a bit nervous

HadesNL

Good luck tomorrow
https://www.schiphol.nl/en/messages/...armers-protest
and
https://nos.nl/artikel/2435119-nieuw...t-weten-we-wel


Farmers protest

westi2002

In WAW we went landsite after security in order to try to get rebooked, but when entering the security space the scanners would not let us through. The officer had to reset our BPs. Don't know if this is the case in AMS as well.

nk15

Yea, except that if you leave your romantic partner in the long line for "a few hours" probably neither your trip nor your relationship will survive, lol...

watewate

Last I checked was last Tuesday -- it wasn't open. Even Aspire lounge still has limited hours (i.e., closes ahead of evening flights on some days).

Fabo.sk

Since A26 and *A lounge are next to each other and catered from common kitchen, I would say it's safe to assume it's staffing issues which keeps *A lounge from opening and A26 from running full hours.
I don't expect that to change quickly.

nldogbert

Actually now passing through AMS about 3x in the last 7 days, i feel more and more that all these issues at the security - it seems to be somewhat an act by the Security company to purposely cause the issues so that they are on the bargaining position side.
I passed last Saturday, in Hall 3 - luckily this time I could manage to access close to the electronic ports and the airport staff allowed Priority passengers to use the Priority lane and go up to security. What I observed was that there was 2 scanner system opened at the Priority line - however I was surprised that out of the 4 positions where one can place your items, they blocked all out except for 1. On the other one, only 3 slots were used. Observing the staff sitting behind the monitor to determine which bags goes secondary or directly ok, it really seems quite strange that
- on both sides, this person was really very very slow, taking about 30 sec or more to make this determination, on one side, it was even worst, it looked like this poor "old" chap was going to fall asleep behind the monitor or was "stoned" behind it. And even taking so long for nearly every bag, nearly every bag on both sides went into secondary.
- from what I observed on why the bags goes into secondary - it was always on minor things , eg. some electronic cables, empty bottles, etc...

Based on how it was previously in Feb/March this year - I had never experienced such situation above, the person sitting was efficient, nearly close to no bags going to secondary - basically they were all working efficiently. So how is it suddenly all these efficient person became inefficient?
At other airports where they do claim this is the case - lack of personal - you do still see the effort taken by the staff to get things moving, but at Schiphol it seems they are taking their own sweet time....

Anyway, just my conspiracy theory behind this.....

Cheers!

jerry_greece

Indeed, still closed with a sign that pax. on Aegean, TAP, Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian and LOT (I guess only SAS missing) can use the Aspire lounge next door. Aspire also sets a limit to enter the lounge 3 hours before your flight, so keep that in mind. I saw a pax. negotiating whether he can enter the time arrived and leave after 3 hours but the lounge attentant did not accept it. Schedule is odd with Wed-Thu-Fri opening 0530-2100 and other days 0800-1600.

GUWonder

SAS doesn’t want to pay for contract lounge access, so it would be missing because of that.

Their ARN equivalents take their sweet old time at times too. Sometimes it felt like they may have wanted to make sure the Fast Track travelers got their lesson in “you’re no better than the rest, and we’re going to show you”. Do they work for the same company as at AMS?

After a boarding pass has been self-scanned once at the security checkpoint access gates, it may not get accepted again at ARN and CPH to get through the security checkpoint access gates again. Then when it’s refused, it’s manual intervention required to get cleared to proceed past the security checkpoint access gates. People trying to repeatedly scan a boarding pass probably happens at AMS too. But as the overwhelming amount of my AMS use is via transits that don’t require re-screening at AMS, I don’t end up with as many chances to play the game in person or see how it naturally goes for others. And my willingness to suffer this AMS mess is limited.

Thino

my wife and I are Fb Plat, we always take our toddlers through sky priority, never had an issur

TheCam

Thanks for asking the question manuswiss - I would be grateful for an update when you are airside - We (family of 6) are on the same AMS-ZRH flight also in Biz on the 12th connecting ZRH-SIN / SIN-MEL and anxious to plan the whole thing as carefully as possible. Checking 7 bags will complicate the process but it is what it is!

mfkne

Neither have I, but it seems the recently tightened the rules, so I wouldn't be surprised if that caused them to now also refused companion infants (or even toddlers, even though they _could_ be SkyTeam Elites).

watewate

4/7 9:30 am. Line outside is longer than usual at this time of the day but inside the terminal is much emptier than usual

HadesNL

Fortunate Schiphol airport was not affected by the protests:
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2435209-anwb...en-naar-wadden

Xandrios

Thanks, thats good to know. I've definitely used the *A lounge in the past for longer than 3 hrs (Self-connecting, arriving from a Skyteam long haul early morning, departing A3 at noon), but I guess things have changed more recently due to the staffing issues. And very weird hours of operation indeed. There are plenty of ~7AM *A departures on a Saturday for example..

Probably because everyone is still stuck outside in line