Transit at Amsterdam Schiphol

Are you going to transit at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol? Well, this airport is in my opinion one of the most user friendly ones in Europe. And if I remember well it was also marked by skytrax as the best one in Europe.

Whole airport is built in one terminal concept, so you will never have to change terminals while transiting at Schiphol airport. The one terminal is divided into Piers B,C,D,E,F,G,H,M. Once you arrive at the airport simply follow signs for your departure gate. Gates in Schiphol are beginning with a letter, which is marking a pier, your flight will depart from. For example if departure gate F06 is marked on your boarding pass, so then you should proceed to the pier F for your departure flight.

All piers are connected by convenient moving walkways, so you will get from one side of the airport to the another side in quite a short time and really comfortably. The only obstacle for you may be the immigration if you are transferring between Schengen/International or International/Schengen. Airport is divided in approximately in its half to Schengen and non-Schengen part. So piers B,C, and the upper floor of D are Schengen and the lower floor of D and piers E,F,G,H are Schengen. The last one pier, pier M is Schengen, but is used on for low-cost flights as well as pier H.

As Schiphol airport is very efficient in my opinion 1 hour connection is perfectly fine and you shouldn't have any toruble. Should you miss your connection proceed to the transfer desk of your airline, or in my opinion you may use the self-service transfer desk as well.

At this airport all signs in the airside are all in English only, but all announcements are trilingual. They are in English, Dutch and the language of the country, where does the plane goes to.

So that's all about transiting at Schiphol. I wish you a very pleasant journey.