Schiphol Airport

Schiphol started early last century as a military airbase, consisting only of a few barracks and a mudpool serving as platform/runways. When civil aircraft started to make use of the field, it was often called Schiphol-les-bains.

Currently Schiphol features 5 main runways, plus 1 used mainly by general aviation aircraft. The "fifth runway" (really the sixth) is gradually being put into use in 2003. This marks the completion of a project originally conceived over 20 years prior.

There are 3 large passenger terminals, the most recent having been completed in 1994. There are plans for further terminal expansion.

Because of the intense traffic at Schiphol, more and more holiday-carriers have moved some of their flights to smaller, nearby airports, such as Eelde[?] (mun. Tynaarlo), Rotterdam, Eindhoven Airport and Beek.

Schiphol is the home base of KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Martinair and Transavia[?]. The Dutch Railways operate a major passenger train station directly underneath the passenger terminal complex.

Schiphol has large shopping areas as a source of revenue and as an additional attractant to air carrier passengers. Schiphol Plaza is the shopping center before customs, hence not only for air travellers, also for people who just change train here, etc. There is a regular size supermarket, Food Village, that is open until midnight seven days a week. Such long shopping hours are rare in the Netherlands.

Departure Hall 1

• Air Aegean[?]
• Air Dolomiti[?]
• Air France
• Air Jet[?]
• Air Malta
• Air One[?]
• Alitalia
• Austrian Airlines
• British Airways
• British Midland[?]
• Cathay Pacific
• DutchBird[?]
• EasyJet
• Eurowings[?]
• Finnair
• Iberia
• Icelandair
• Jet2[?]
• Lufthansa
• My Travelite[?]
• Olympic Airways[?]
• Scandinavian Airlines System
• Scot Airways[?]
• Spanair[?]
• Swiss International Airlines
• TAP Air Portugal
• Transavia[?]
• Virgin Express[?]

Departure Hall 2

• Aer Lingus
• Air Alps[?]
• CSA Czech Airlines[?]
• Cyprus Airways
• Kenya Airways
• KLM
• KLM exel[?]
• KLM uk[?]
• Lithuanian Airlines
• LOT
• Maersk Air
• MALEV Hungarian[?]
• Meridiana[?]
• Northwest Airlines
• Ukraine International[?]

Departure Hall 3

• Adria Airways[?]
• Aeroflot
• Air Anatolia[?]
• Air Bosna[?]
• Air Canada
• Air Holland[?]
• Air Moldova[?]
• Air Aegean[?]
• Air Sint Maarten[?] (operating carrier: Air Holland)
• Air Transat[?]
• Air Zena Georgian[?]
• Arkia[?]
• Armavia[?]
• Armenian Airlines[?]
• Bulgaria Air[?]
• China Airlines
• China Southern[?]
• Continental Airlines
• Croatia Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Dutch Caribbean[?]
• Egyptair[?]
• El Al
• Eritrean Airlines[?]
• Ethiopian Airlines[?]
• EVA Airways[?]
• Fly Air[?]
• Garuda Indonesia
• Inter Express[?]
• Israir[?]
• Japan Airlines
• JAT Yugoslavian[?]
• Korean Air[?]
• Kuwait Airways[?]
• Libyan Arab Airlines
• Lotus Air[?]
• Malaysia Airlines
• Martinair
• MAT Macedonian[?]
• MNG Airlines[?]
• Onur Air[?]
• Pakistan International Airlines
• Pegasus Airlines[?]
• Singapore Airlines
• Skynet Airlines[?]
• Sun Dor[?]
• Suranim Airways[?]
• Syrian Arab Airlines[?]
• TACV Cabo Verde[?]
• Turkish Airlines (THY)
• Tunisair[?]
• United Airlines
• US Airways[?]
• Varig

Varying Departure Hall

• Tyrolean[?]

External Link

• Schiphol International Airport Homepage (http://www.schiphol.nl/)