Why Amsterdam Airport Is So Busy (Even With little Population) 

This video just repeats the same thing over and over in slightly different ways LOL 😅

Fun Fact für Schiphol and KLM: The king of the netherland has a commercial pilot licence and he flies minimum twice a month as a copilot the keep his licence. So when you are flying with KLM from or to schiphol there is a chance the king is in the cockpit. :-)

Eindhoven airport has many low cost routes all across Europe, in addition, both Eindhoven and Rotterdam have charter flights during summer. Main reason for why AMS is so busy is many connections and transit passengers who don't even leave the airport

not sure where this data is from, but much is inaccurate. Firstly, "there arer no airports in the north of the netherlands". Groningen airport hosts international flights daily. The list goes on..

I'm halfway trough and noticed you already covered the information multiple times, it's like a school project that needs more words.

Well, many municipalities like Duivendrecht, Hoofddorp, Diemen, Aalsmeer etc are nearer than Amsterdam to Schiphol airport. And these municipalities when combined are around 250K+ population. And if we take 1 hour from Schiphol then it has as much population as London

It’s a true shame that the government wants Schiphol to shrink and lose its current position while the countries around us move on and grow their airports. One thing I’d like to mention about the video is that there’s 3 other airports in the country with international flights of which one is in the north (Groningen, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Maastricht). They do have flights outside Europe too (Turkey, Morocco etc). The difference with Schiphol is that they don’t have long haul flights :)

Amsterdam has Schiphol as a economic motor and Rotterdam the port. They both are transit hubs for other countries

amsterdam does not have a population of 800,000, by that metric you should only count manhattan as the entirety of "NYC" with just over a million people.

Airline hubs play a huge role. The best example we have in the states, in my opinion, is Detroit. If Delta didn't have its Asian operations based out of there DTW would be a fraction of the size. Probably only the North terminal would exist.

This sounds like me in a presentation trying to come up with something to say

You said the province of Groningen doesn't have a airport but it does Groningen Airport Eelde wich have connections to Greece , Spaans and Turkey . There is also Maastricht-Aken Airport

EHBK left the chat, has some flights to Dubai, also cargo flights And flights to the Gambia and Egypt, if I remember correctly, those are not in europe The amount of wrong information being told in the video is immaculate, I’ve reported you for misleading info

This aiport is crazy busy I scheduled a shower at the airport but because the lines were so long I missed my slot to shower and had to board my connection flight smelling like a 2-dollar bath cloth

LHR need 1 more runway to conquer the AMS

5:28 "you don`t necessarily need a big city nearby" indeed, did you know that Schiphol is actually not located in Amsterdam and still it`s called Schiphol Amsterdam. its Adres is in haarlemmermeer not Amsterdam

You could of put the video in under 10 seconds. IT IS A TRANSFER HUB.

Paris has population of 2,1 million???? wtf?

Also Netherlands borders Germany with a big Airport in Düsseldorf for example

Why excluding Istanbul?

So, you compares cities (not metropolitan areas) to regioes in the NL.... thats not right at all!! GL has 8.6M as you say but it serves way more: oxford, salisbury, milton keyes, cantebury etc etc... if you do this to all major cities 4.5 is nothing!! i think the main reason is beacuse indeed it stays in a central position, its the major IN airport, great road and rail conections to all contry, major scientific and reserach hub in europe, the IN city of the hague...

20M tourists on 18M vitizens is not really "not much tourists", in fact compared to larger countries, are tourist per capita is hiher that say the UK or Germany. France does beat us of course due to Paris and Disneyland. It is not Fries land, there are potatos there but that is about it, it is pronounced Freeze land.

Don't forget to MIND YOUR STEP 😊😊😊😊

Im pronouncing schiphol wrong until i found this video

KLM must have some smart deal with most video/documentary makers who cover international travel. While KLM is the oldest still surviving airlines in the world, it is also one of the smallest. Yet whenever I watch a video or documentary about international travel, there will often be a KLM plane just happening to fly or roll into view.

7:19 Terminal 1 at LHR does not exist any more.

I always thought it was because of the sex tourism.

Nice video, but how about asking permission to use my videos in the background first?

This sounds like an AI trying to construct a script.

Used to fly via AMS and its a great airport for traveling. This video has a few misses. First Netherlands is in Schengen and many people outside Amsterdam will go to other countries to fly such as Brussels. Next as part of KLM is their partnership with Delta airlines. Delta has turned Amsterdam into a massive hub and has flights to Amsterdam throughout the US. Given its geography Amsterdam is a great connecting airport for North American travelers going to Europe, Africa, and even certain parts of Asia.

Saying that Paris only has 2M people is like counting only the population of central London

Many aspects are missing.... it has very good train connection means that many people even from Belgium or Germany are going here to depart/arrive... Netherlands has a very well established international conference infrastructure. There are sometimes corporate conferences/trainings with hundreds of participants. The Netherlands is a very busy international business hub, many companies have European HQ here and business people travel a lot to here/ from here...

What's also important is you can get a train from most of the country which terminate at the airport. You can't really do that in the UK.

Schipol and Paris are also used as transit airports by UK passengers from airports that are too close to London to have flights to London such as Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton and Norwich.

Amsterdam really serves the whole randstad region (and you can argue the whole country) since Schiphol has flights the other airports in NL doesn’t. Btw the randstad region is 9 million people and includes Rotterdam. It’s about the same land area as the London metro but has more farm land seperating the urban areas.

It would have made more sense to compare London, Amsterdam and Paris population using the metropolitan region. It's not fair comparison due to administrative reasons for example, the Paris metropolitan region has a population of over 10 million

When I saw the traffic statistics and the population number of Amsterdam I thought, How???

People in the Netherlands don't fly domestically. They take the train.

For me, Amsterdam is maybe the least interesting place in the Netherlands. It's beautiful but I really love other Dutch cities. I spent a week in Enschede earlier in the year and loved it. We went to Friesland too and it was beautiful. If I ever had to leave Australia (my home), I would definitely choose to live in the Netherlands.

Explained well. Just that it's pronounced s-(choking sound)-ipol

KLM is never a cheaper option lol It'd be nice if you can pronounce the names of places properly.

I fly KLM a lot and it always strikes me how many passengers are non-Dutch transit passengers. Many Scandinavians travel within Europe with KLM over Schiphol airport Same for British and East Europeans. And obviously the inter continental travelers to literally ALL continents. When a plane is delayed the crew always announces the transit passengers' connecting flights and gates. That's when I notice the diversity of passengers on board.

Amsterdam doesn't have 800k population, it's about 920k in the municipal area, and 2,5 million in the metro area.

What are you babbling about? Why make things complicated? It a hub! That's all.

Same thing for Atlanta Airport also. No competition. Most places around the world have fierce competition. USA New York should be way busier but has fierce competition. Dubai could be busier but haas fierce competition just hours away.

Nice video. Please do a similar video of why Dublin's airport services much more people that the total population of Ireland (at least, it has at some point processed upto 32m passengers) while greater Dublin is not upto 3m inhabitants and the Republic of Ireland is not upto 6m inhabitants

People tend to forget that Schiphol isn’t in the Amsterdam municipality, but it is still called Amsterdam airport. I live in the same municipality as Schiphol (Haarlemmermeer) and we don’t call ourself Amsterdam. In fact our municipality used to be under water.

France is not "in the top 5" of the most visited countries in Europe, it's #1, with Paris being the most visited city in Europe and London coming in 2nd. Plus both CDG and AMS serve not only their respective cities but the metros surounding them ,so that's 11 millions people for Paris and 2,5 for Amsterdam ,which are the numbers that should be used here since you are referring to Greater London.

It's also a, predominantly Western minded, Schengen outer border, at the edge of the continent. Once cleared Amsterdam/Netherlands Immigration, international tourists are 'relatively free' to move through the Schengen area without hassle. So, Amsterdam is just seen as the 'easiest entry (in)to Europe'.

To be fair the Amsterdam metropolitan area (and in extension the whole Randstad which is at most 40 minutes away by train) has a lot more people living there together. People outside of Randstad generally drive a car instead of taking the train.

Amsterdam schipol serve all the country 17 millions inhabitants also Belgians the country is small and the airport railway station is super connected to all 4 corners of the country and internationally too

Here in the Netherlands we never book klm flight for European destinations. Because klm is the most expensive company to fly with here in Europe

Not enough population? It's the most densely packed country in Europe (if you discount microstates such as Monaco and San Marino). Unfortunately the Dutch government agrees with you they think we can house many more millions. Schiphol is overrated, too big with one huge terminal instead of multiple terminals with a lightrail in between them which is more convenient as you don't have to walk so much.

The narrator ruined it for me

The number of people in Amsterdam of of April 2024 is 934,927. It expected to be 1 million around 2030. But yeah it’s small compared to other European capitals.

36% Of passengers at Schiphol are transfers. This is because Schiphol is the KLM hub. They collect passengers throughout Europe and transfer them to long haul flights and visa versa. For example, there are no direct flight from JFK to Lyon, but there is a direct KLM flight between AMS and JFK, followed by a AMS to LYS flight. The transfer point of this journey is Schiphol. The same is for Athens, Greece. There is no ATH to EZE (Buenos Aires). There is however a ATH to AMS and a AMS to EZE. KLM has also strong connections with hubs in Asia. Airlines use KLM as parter, to get people from the Netherlands to Singapore, followed by a connecting flying on Lion Air e.g.

Amsterdam has a population of 918K in 2023 when this video was released, not 822K. And beside that, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,6 million. Served by just one airport, while Paris has two and London has Heathrow, City, Gatwick and smaller ones like Luton, Stansted, Southend.

Please change the narrator 🙏

So many things wrong in this video. Saying that there are no commercial airports in the north (waving at you Groningen Eelde) or further south (hello Maastricht Aachen Airport) is BS. Apart from that, a lot of people in the east and south travel to airports on the other side of the border because of good and direct connections (Weeze, Düsseldorf, Bonn-Cologne, Brussels and Brussels South) so they don't use Schiphol in the first place. Next to that the most important thing is missing; the reason why Schiphol is so busy is because of it's role in the intercontinantal hub-and-spoke principle thanks to mainly KLM and the partnerships it has struck in the past decades. This has made Schiphol a major base for flights in and out of Europe to other continents and therefor it is a huge transit airport. About 35-45% of the annual passenger numbers (71M) are having a transfer on Schiphol, so don't go in or out from the Netherlands. And that is what makes Schiphol such a major airport compared to it's humble location.

Many good reasons, but you forgot: The Dutch are pretty good at speaking English... and they are also willing... and they are not snobs like the French. So we are many how choose KLM/Schiphol for the reason of the people/staff on the airline and airport. Sadly though, KLM are very often delayed.

This video can be shorter: 2 minutes. Then you have not to repeat 5 times the same story! The reason why Schiphol is larger then what you would expect is a lot of direct destinations in the world and it's a hub. So this video could explain everything in 30 seconds!🤗🤣

As a person that uses schiphol, munich and frankfurt for transfers. Frankfurt is by far the worst airport. Everytime I transfer in Frankfurt I have to go though security twice and have to go up and down to get to terminal E. Moreover in Frankfurt they use tiny ass boxes, as with someone witha laptop that doesn't even fit in the box flat I end up using 7 or 8 boxes.

A correction to this video is needed. Rotterdam/The Hague Airport and Eindhoven Airport DO have international connections. They connect to regional airports. For example. I took a plane from Eindhoven to Gerona (small airport close to Barcelona)

Hahahahhahaha Schiphol cheap I never fly via Schiphol for european flights cuz its tooo expensive and the airport is wayyyy to big and complex. I always fly by Eindhoven. Its 30 minutes less driving than Schiphol and more compact and your at the gate in less than 7 minutes Its also wayyyyy cheaper. People in Eastern Netherlands also fly via Dusseldorf Germany cuz its far more cheaper. People even fly via Brussels airport cuz the tickets are wayy cheaper there

I already commented you got facts wrong, but you also are wrong about the amount of flights from both Rotterdam/The Hague airport and Eindhoven Airport. Both have more than 100 flights/day

1:27 that's not true... from Rotterdam The Hague airport (the Netherlands) you have flights to Nador and other destinations in Morocco. that's Africa so outside Europe :)

International doesn't mean "outside of Europe". Both Eindhoven and Rotterdam have only International flights. There are no national flights inside of the Netherlands.

Its not just 4,5 million, pretty much everyone has to travel through Schiphol. I live in Rotterdam, but the chance that I can get a flight in Rotterdam is slim. So its closer to 15 million people who use it. the other 2 million might be able to use another airport

There are commercial airports in the north. Eelde for example. They go to popular sun holiday destinations like Greece, Spain, Turkey

So now explain why Brussels Airport isn’t a really busy airport? It’s also serves whole Belgium and 11 million people.

But you can’t say that amsterdam has 800k population when the Randstad is considered as one big metropolitan area with 8.3 million

This is a horrible video lol. So much talking but no contents. It sounds like a 5th graders school project.

You don't have the borders right of the profinces and Flevoland Lelystad is building a new airport to take some flights of Schiphol but the only reason that it is not opened because of climate actevist

KLM is waay better than other European airlines. I tried lufthansa oh God never again, their airport is just bad for connecting.

I went to Europe on a trip in high school. We flew into Gatwick, south of London. I had no idea it existed until I got there. A few days in London, then by bus to Paris and then on to Amsterdam. So all three cities. And we flew out of Schiphol. Amsterdam is great! It has a real small town, countryside feel. Another thing you overlooked is the days of the Dutch Empire. All of the Dutch colonies around the world led to the start of KLM. And of course, the VOC. The Dutch East India company. And Royal Dutch Shell. For a "small country" the Netherlands has a worldwide presence. Like France and Britain and (UGH!) America. Here where I live on the East Coast of Canada there was a KLM ticket office. Amsterdam to Toronto and the return flight was Toronto-Halifax-Amsterdam. To load seafood on the return was the story. It was like that for a few years but they closed the KLM office here. I'm bummed about that.

is obvious... greatest European hub... Especially after UK's Brexit

She just skipped Groningen wich is not that big but some european countries fly there

This video is just saying the same thing over and over again. Did AI write the script?

There's something wierd about this channel but i cant really figure out what it is. The script and the narration feels like ai, but the editing is fine af

Amsterdam is where I've smoked some outrageously good weed.

The main reason Amsterdam Schiphol is so busy : 37 %. are transfer passangers

Most of dutch people in the east of the netherlands fly from Düsseldorf or Köln

4:30 the Netherlands does have a commercial airfield in the north called Eelde

This video just feels like it’s been trying to fill up a word limit.

What your saying is not true, Eindhoven airport and Rotterdam airport have international flights

this has got to be one of the most poorly constructed video essays ive seen in a long time

So basically Amsterdam Schipol is just a bigger Tirana Rinas

Paris is way bigger, more like 10M. 2M is just the old historic city boundaries

You say international instead of intercontinental... Europe is not a country miss American ;).

A lot of the people from the netherlands alsp go to Düsseldorf or Frankfurt airport

Someone didn't do their research before uploading a video lmao

Why exclude Istanbul? It's in Europe.

From Rotterdam airport you can fly to the Maghreb countries

Maybe some day Lelystad Airport will open

London Heathrow runs at full capacity, so if there's any kind of weather problems the delays get really bad, something to consider if you're connecting there from Scotland. Schipol doesn't have this problem so much, definitely better hub airport for Scotland than the London airports for thus reason alone.

Eindhoven has an airport. So its not like there is no other international airport in Netherlands.

London is served by 6 airports. You should add them together. Also you should add the southeast of England to compare to Netherlands as a city

Many people in the east and south use the many airports across the border in Germany and Belgium. If those people would switch to AMS, it'll probably be number one in Europe 😅

it's so busy as it is a european HUB, simple as that....

This airport is the definition of a nightmare. Crowded, understaffed and inefficient. Avoid it at all costs unless you have many hours to waste and the patience of a saint. You will need both.