Gary: i believe there are pre-arranged tours, but, anyone can go on the one we did, tickets from a kiosk on the terrace, where you also get your ticket for the shuttle bus to Dock E. The tour covers just about every bit of ground, passes every stand, the GAT, the biz hangars, Swiss maintenance, all 3 runway threshholds, the intersection of 34 and 10 where you can get out for 10-15 mins (insanely close!!), even covering the “Unique 1” area, where the fire, snow clearing, ops, ambulance, police,etc…. are.
Tour lasts 90 minutes and costs 16 SFR. Highly recommended for anyone, especially number crunchers(the driver even slowed down,on request, in the biz hangar area, so my mate could read off stuff in the hangar). There is live commentary in German, but, we could ask him things in English. About the only places it never went to were, r/w16 threshold, where there is a wrecked Air Afrique DC8 and some other wrecked bits,and a biz parking area just beyond Unique 1,which is also where the heliport is.

Greekdude: Jury is out for me on the Transavia new c/s too, although very refreshing from the old…. Very happy to get both UA 767’s in new c/s (even if one had an “old” nosecone!!)
Kevin: the facilities are unfortunately non-existant…err, benches and a toilet!!(also a vending machine), the bus from terminal B is every 1/2 hour cost 4SFR return, but, the views are fantastic, every runway easily viewable,but in the afternoon when the sun is out,shooting 28/10 or 34 is hard

Some more from Sunday. The 146 OH-SAL, you can see has 2 fire engines behind it which had just sprayed it, as it was the inaugural service of the flight, but, i did’nt get my camera together in time to catch it 😮

On to Sunday, summer season starts and the mid dock terrace opens, weather a bit poor to start, but became a real scorcher in the afternoon. Back for another shot of the ramp tour, which reveals a First kingfisher A320 inside a hangar, a bit p’d at not being able to shoot it…but, more KLM calamity helped out on that one, our flight back to AMS had “technical difficulty” resulting in a 3 hour delay, during which the Kingfisher departed 🙂
However, this meant missing our flight home to Glasgow, and having to endure the pain of staying in the IBIS hotel Schipol (very nice/expensive) at KLM’s expense, finally getting home about 11am today, unfortunately the weather at AMS this morning was awful, only shot worth taking was the China Southern 747-400F.