Planes and airports
Trip Start
Aug 19, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 12, 2008
Amsterdam,
Noord-Holland,
Netherlands
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
You check in, you can go trough passport control, you can shop, you go trough security, you can shop more, and then you are at the gate.
In Amsterdem (Schiphol) you check in, go trough passportcontrol, you shop. And you have to go to the gate two hours before (still no secutiy check. The security check is 10 meters from the planes. The securitycheck is done at the gate itself. So every gate has his own security system (that must cost a lot).
And once you have passed security, the only thing left to do is wait. There are no shops or bars anymore.
Thirty hours prior to flying you could reserve a seat through the internet. If you really wanted a special seat (like the ones having an electrical power socket) then that would cost you 50 euro. That was a little too much, even for the AC socket. I would prefer to do the trip reading books and magazines then. At the end we even could not reserve any seat, since we first needed to catch a Thalys to Amsterdam.
And because there is no confimation of that railway ticket, you can not reserve a seat on the plane.
So we ended up with seats that were not even in the same row. Lucky for me a gentle klm assistent at the gate switched our seat reservations. Since a lot of people cancelled their seat, we ended up sitting with 2 in a row of 4 seats.
After 2 hours, Eli came sitting in our row and we started chatting. For some reason I attract people who have some decent things to say. So we had a vivid conversation about work, play, home, life, internet, mac, microsoft, google, ...
