Peak day at Schiphol is going smoothly for the time being: ‘a maximum of 30 minutes of waiting’

Final 12 months, Schiphol was repeatedly the scene of lengthy queues, partly resulting from workers shortages in safety. To stop a recurrence, Schiphol and the safety corporations energetic on the airport labored on recruiting lots of of latest safety guards. As well as, restrictions will nonetheless apply to the variety of passengers departing from Schiphol within the morning till mid-Might.

One other technique of making certain easy passenger flows, reserving a time on the safety test, can be gaining reputation. On common, about 10 p.c of all departing vacationers to a different Schengen nation do that, whereas this was nonetheless 2 p.c earlier than the Easter weekend. Final Saturday, it involved nearly 1 / 4 of those vacationers. “The individuals who do that want lower than 5 minutes on the safety test. That could be a huge distinction from ready 4 hours final 12 months,” says a spokesperson.

The measures appear to be bearing fruit: though the Might vacation is now midway, there was no chaos at Schiphol to date.