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. 
An Amsterdam police SWAT team has arrested a man at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, after he had told several people that he was carrying a bomb. 
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. Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is going to pre-screen passengers from outside the European Union before their arrival. 
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. 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. 
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. 
Roughly 400 out of 700 cleaners at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport are on strike. They are demanding compensation for travel costs, regular work, more breaks, ‘more respect’ and an end to ‘intimidation by managers’ who criticize them for striking.
A runway at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has been closed after the discovery of a Second World War bomb on Monday afternoon.