2023-04-22 18:07:56
The May holiday has started and therefore it is busy on Saturday morning at Schiphol. There are queues in departure halls 2 and 3, but the flow is good. The airport does not expect that picture to change much during the holiday period.
Schiphol already took into account crowds and therefore also queues. But the airport assumes that those queues will not be as long as last year. Back then, the queues extended beyond the departure hall, causing some travelers to even miss their flight.
Schiphol is deploying more security officers to keep the crowds manageable. Travelers are also asked to prepare themselves, for example for the security check.
Additional gates have also been placed in Departure Hall 2, so that departing travelers are guided in a zigzagging direction to the check-in desks. For the time being, those fences seem superfluous, but the spokesperson says they are necessary to accommodate crowds at a later time. There are queues at counters 1 and 2, among others, but they continue reasonably well.
Schiphol expects an average of 66,000 departing travelers per day at the airport during the May holiday. On peak days, such as the first weekend of the holiday, that number can rise to well over 70,000.
Last year, an average of 58,000 people left the airport during the May holiday. Before the corona crisis, that number was an average of 72,000 per day.
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