Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)

Website: www.schiphol.nl

Schiphol Airport is the main airport in the Netherlands and is approximately twenty minutes from Amsterdam city centre by train.

It is the third busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger traffic. The airport has six runways and one passenger terminal which is divided into three departure areas.

Built on what was once a large lake, Schiphol Airport is one of the world’s lowest airports, lying three metres below sea level.

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Construction at Schiphol’s new Pier A reaches milestone

30 July 2019 | By International Airport Review

The highest point has been reached in the construction of a new Pier A at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

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New biometric programme will facilitate paperless cross-border travel

1 July 2019 | By Vision-Box

Vision-Box and partners have signed an agreement to officially launch the “Known Traveller Digital Identity” service, which will facilitate paperless border clearance between Canada and The Netherlands.

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Sustainability Series: Why should we invest in sustainable aviation fuel?

21 June 2019 | By Denise Pronk | Head of Sustainability at Royal Schiphol Group

As part of Schiphol's Future Sustainability, Denise Pronk - Head of Sustainability at Schiphol, explains how investing in sustainable aviation fuel is vital to the success of lowering the environmental impact of aviation.

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Everyone’s talking about how to enhance non-aeronautical revenue

20 June 2019 | By Aude Ferrand - Groupe ADP, Dimitri Coll | Head ASQ | ACI World, Joseph Huber - CVG, Patrick Lucas - ACI, Tanja Dik - Amsterdam Airport Schipol, Tomasz Lenart - Wroclaw Airport

Non-aeronautical revenues are essential to airports' financial health, so we asked industry experts how they ensure they reap the benefits of airport incomes.

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Schiphol revises traditional methods of passenger information delivery

13 June 2019 | By International Airport Review

Recent information screen blackouts at Gatwick and Heathrow have highlighted that airports need to diversify their information delivery systems.

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Schiphol looks to accelerate innovative operations through the airport

10 June 2019 | By International Airport Review

In collaboration with Delft University of Technology, Schiphol will act as a 'living lab' for the next five years as the partnership aims to develop innovation throughout the airport.

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Schiphol collaborates with ATL to create new trade and logistics corridor

6 June 2019 | By International Airport Review

A new trade agreement between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will digitally and physically connect the airports; increasing cargo trade between the two.

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Schiphol becomes WeChat Pay’s first smart airport in Europe

24 May 2019 | By International Airport Review

Schiphol offers Chinese passengers a unique travel and shopping experience with WeChat services around the airport.

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Sustainability Series: Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC)

12 April 2019 | By Alejandro Ríos | Director of the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC)

Our 'Sustainability Series' continues with a look to the future for aviation fuel; we spoke to Jose Gerardo Gonzalez Barron, from the SBRC, who told us how fuel from halophytic plants is the way forward.

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Passenger Predictability operations at Birmingham expanded to streamline operations

26 March 2019 | By International Airport Review

Passenger Predictability solutions will be expanded to cover all processes at Birmingham Airport, to help make more informed strategic resourcing, facility and expansion planning decisions, following successful queue management strategies.

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Schiphol doubles its amount of covered parking and becomes more sustainable

20 March 2019 | By International Airport Review

By creating more parking spaces at Schiphol Airport, not only has the airport increased the passenger experience, but they have installed solar panels on the roof of the building which contributes to their sustainability plans.

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Speaker Series: Airport IT & Security

14 March 2019 | By International Airport Review

Sjoerd Blüm, Chief Information Officer at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, discusses his highlights from Airport IT & Security 2018 and what he is looking forward to at this year’s event.

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Sustainability Series: How is Schiphol doing its bit for the environment?

8 March 2019 | By Denise Pronk | Head of Sustainability at Royal Schiphol Group

In the first of a new series examining how the airport and aviation industries are working to mitigate the damaging environmental impact of air travel, Denise Pronk, Head of Sustainability at the Royal Schiphol Group, speaks exclusively to International Airport Review to detail Schiphol's plan to reduce its environmental impact.

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Major maintenance will see the runway at Schiphol closed for six weeks

5 March 2019 | By International Airport Review

The runway at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will be closed for works on the taxiways, markings and lighting; flights will redirect to other runways to ensure as little disruption as possible.

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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol starts facial recognition boarding using Vision-Box platform

19 February 2019 | By Vision-Box

Cathay Pacific passengers have the opportunity to board via facial recognition with technology from Vision-Box - this pilot will set the grounding for the technology to be used airport-wide in Schiphol in the future.