Passport control at AMS?

It surprises me sometimes just how short a time you have to transfer flights

Indeed, it can be ridiculously short sometimes! Flying out to Japan with the band in March this year, most of us flew to CDG from MAN and had an hour and a half connection, but the three guys from the south flew from LHR with a 45 minute connection (booked through AF as a genuine ‘connection’, too). Knowing what CDG can be like and the fact our NRT flight was on a remote stand meant I knew full well there was no way they’d make it. Sure enough we’re sat on the plane ready to go, minus a drummer, lead guitarist and keyboard player. A baggage truck with Daves cymbals on it even came to the side of our plane and then disappeared with them again! They were something like 5 hours behind us having been put on the next JAL flight so all was OK in the end, just rather frustrating when a connection is booked and can’t be made. It has to be said though, there are certain big airports a 45 minute connection can be OK; places like Copenhagen, Oslo, Amsterdam and even Frankfurt are usually fine. Heathrow or CDG, forget it!

Paul

It surprises me sometimes just how short a time you have to transfer flights and yet people staffing the queues seem to really not care!

Agreed. I missed a connecting Qantas flight at LAX once, on my way from LHR to New Zealand, because of a combination of a short transfer time and a late BA flight from London.
BA was not much help, but Qantas was brilliant. We were put on another flight two hours later, which was a very lightly-loaded B747. I slept across three seats all the way.

Ah I see, well that explains it then, thanks. I had quite a run to make!

It surprises me sometimes just how short a time you have to transfer flights and yet people staffing the queues seem to really not care!

I’m just a bit curious…I went to Zurich this weekend to visit a friend. I landed from NCL in the D area at Schiphol, and then my flight to Zurich was from B

I’ve been to Schiphol quite alot and never had to go through passport control for a connecting flight, even when travelling to the USA

Just curious as to why this is the case? I almost missed my connection as the “short transfer queue” was pretty much just as long as the other queues, and it actually “closed” shortly after I joined, and others were turned away. I had to do it on the way back, too!

Bit of a faff to say the least!

You went from non-Schengen to Schengen. That always entails a customs check. Your transfers on flights to the USA are from non-schengen to non-schengen and so no inspection is needed.