Articles tagged ‘Schiphol Airport’

Ten new cities now have nonstop flights into Amsterdam

By Roger | April 10th, 2008 | Add a Comment »

The rules for which airlines can fly into which airports changed a bit as of March 30, and this should be good news for quite a few travelers to Amsterdam. Ten new cities will have weekly scheduled nonstop flights into and out of Schiphol Airport, bringing the total to 257. The new schedule only goes [...]

 

Suspicious ‘priest’ nabbed with 3.5 kilos of cocaine at Schiphol Airport

By Roger | January 12th, 2008 | Add a Comment »

As if the Catholic Church didn’t have enough problems already, a man claiming to be a priest was caught yesterday trying to bring 3.5 kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands at Schiphol Airport. Evidently he refused a routine body search on religious grounds and then was spotted getting in a different security line to try [...]

 

Schiphol Airport of the Future

By Roger | September 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is already famous as Europe’s favorite airport both for its efficiency and its design, and things are scheduled to get even better in the coming years. At the just-concluded Check-In 2007 convention in Las Vegas, which is an annual gathering of airport and airline officials, Schiphol managers showed off a futuristic system [...]