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Public Transport to and from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

March 12, 2020 Public Transport, Schiphol Airport, Visitors Guide

How the Corona virus affects Schiphol.

Comprehensive, up-to-date information about public transport to and from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. You can travel by train, bus, taxi, Uber, hotel-shuttle, private transfer, and more.

Includes cruise ship terminal transfer information.

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Taxi wars at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

March 14, 2012 News

Taxi drivers licensed to pick up passengers at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol are sounding the alarm over illegal ‘taxi runners’ who solicit passengers and guide them to unlicensed cabs.

They tell Amsterdam TV station AT5 that on average they lose about 170 rides a day to the rogue cab drivers.

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More efficient security checks at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

October 6, 2011 News, Schiphol Airport

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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Amsterdam airport to pre-screen passengers from outside the EU

September 21, 2011 News, Schiphol Airport

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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Dutch Railways dupe tourists into buying expensive tickets

February 22, 2010 News

NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen Dutch Railways

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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