LondonCity September 13, 2017 11:06

Schiphol was designed and built for transfer passengers. In the 1960s it was of course a different era, a time when IATA (and all its restrictive policies) ruled and when any IATA fare allowed passengers to make en route changes (provided the passenger did not exceed the IATA mileage limit).

Today’s Schiphol is handling different traffic flows. Foreign airlines are increasing in number and especially those operating long-haul.

More and more passengers are using Schiphol on a point-to-point basis and this traffic is growing owing to the arrival of LCCs.

So one would hope that KLM and its fellow Skyteam members/codeshare partners will occupy a specific area of the terminal to make transfers easier. And one would hope that the point-to-point carriers would then occupy a separate zone (as some do already) as their passengers are, except for a handful, not making connections.