Full article: More efficient security checks at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and security services have been given the go-ahead for a pilot project aimed at providing more efficient security checks at airports in the Netherlands.

Passengers will be checked according to 'risk categories.'

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Full article: Amsterdam airport to pre-screen passengers from outside the EU

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is going to pre-screen passengers from outside the European Union before their arrival.

Some twenty airlines have agree to provide passenger's personal details immediately after they check in on any of 27 international flights that have been identified as 'high risk.'

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Full article: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport banishes Dutch tourists to regional airport

Dutch holidaymakers bound for commercial destinations will most likely have to travel in and out of regional airports in the near future, following Monday’s announcement by Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport that it intends to focus on business traffic, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports.

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Full article: Amsterdam News in Brief, May 17, 2010

Updated • Ash cloud closes Amsterdam Airport Schiphol • Cleaners end garbage collection strike now that their demands are met • Lada Gaga visits Red Light District and world famous coffeeshop • DNA research into old murder case.

Plus: Partial re-reopening for the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum of modern art.

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Full article: Amsterdam ash cloud fallout: no planes, few hotels — train stations overwhelmed

While a cloud of ash from the still-erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland continues to slowly spread across Europe, stranded air travelers across the world are scrambling for hotels, trains, ferries and even taxis to reach their destinations.

Amsterdam's main train stations -- Central Station, Amstel Station, as well as the train station at Schiphol Airport -- are overwhelmed with long lines of people trying to reach their destination by train.

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Full article: Dutch Railways dupe tourists into buying expensive tickets

Dutch Railways (NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen) earn millions of Euros by duping tourists who travel from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to Central Station into buying First Class tickets.

NS claims that's what tourists want, but according to the VVV Tourist Office -- which also sells train tickets at the airport -- tourists usually elect to buy Second Class tickets.

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Full article: Amsterdam: police finds cocaine in shipment of Valentine’s Day roses

Dutch police have smashed a drug smuggling operation after members of the National Crime Squad intercepted nine kilos (20 lb) of cocaine at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The drug was hidden among 20,000 long-stem red roses flown to the Netherlands from Colombia for Valentine's Day.

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Full article: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol drops out of Top 10 of International Airports

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has dropped out of the Top 10 of International Airports.

An analysis by Het Financieel Dagblad, a Dutch financial daily, shows that based on ACI's 2008 figures, Schiphol airport has dropped to fourteenth place.

The organization's latest figures, for April 2009, shows a further downward trend, ranking Amsterdam's airport at nineteen.

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Full article: Ticket tax has resulted in lasting damage for Amsterdam airport, others

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and other airports in the Netherlands encounter lasting damage as a result of the Ticket Tax that will discontinued from July 1 this year.

Schiphol president Jos Nijhuis last Tuesday told a meeting of the Dutch Aviation Group, an umbrella organization for the airline industry, that nine percent of all passengers have been lost to less expensive airports in neighboring countries.

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Full article: 22 members of brass band arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol airport after drugs check

Dutch Military Police (Koninklijke Marechaussee) at Amsterdam Schiphol airport have arrested all 22 members of a Suriname brass band on suspicion of attempting to smuggle drugs into the Netherlands.

The band members were arrested during a 100 percent check, in which every person arriving on flights from certain locations are subjected to a full-body check for contraband.

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