The charm of Holland

Trip Start Apr 26, 2008
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Trip End Jun 09, 2008


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Flag of Netherlands  , Noord-Holland,
Sunday, April 27, 2008

The 7-hour flight to Amsterdam was quite pleasant even in the cramped seats of Boeing 777. The Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) has an interesting innovation in their planes: an interactive system, providing the fliers with a choice of movies (both new and old), TV programmes (mostly old), games (mostly boring) and a live feed from the plane's GPS, showing the current location, speed, height of the plain and the remaining time.

In the Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
In the Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
 The Schiphol Airport of Amsterdam deserves a special mention. It is so large, they made a map of time it takes to travel by foot between locations :) It would take about 40 minutes to cross from an entrance of the Lounge 1 to the Lounge 4, even using the moving sidewalks! Even though the most recent departure hall was completed in 1994, some employees have no idea that it exists!

To be continued...

Pictures are here
Where I stayed
Schiphol Airport
(Amsterdam hotels)
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juliettka
juliettka on May 16, 2008 at 09:17PM

Blah (I hate these forced titles!)
...And the site is not user-friendly at all...
E.g., I can't see the text of your entry when commenting on it!

Yep, when I flew Air France in 2004, I also really liked the ability to choose movies from the menu... I think, KLM and Air France are the same company now.

Did you sit next to Shawn? :)

How do you know about the employees of the airport that don't know about the hall?

pyres
pyres on May 17, 2008 at 03:38AM

Re: Blah (I hate these forced titles!)
> Yep, when I flew Air France in 2004, I also really liked the ability to choose movies from the menu... I think, KLM and Air France are the same company now.

No, I think KLM just hires some Air France flights to complete the route.

> Did you sit next to Shawn? :)

Yep. First we were 1 sit apart, but we switched with a guy.

> How do you know about the employees of the airport that don't know about the hall?

We were looking for it and we ask a couple of people.

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