A Personal View

摘要

While writing this column, it is the heart of summer 2015 and even in The Netherlands the weather is nice and sunny, with an occasional shower. And yet most Dutch people like to travel abroad for their holidays. That's why last Saturday we had the busiest day ever here at Schiphol Airport, with nearly 200,000 departing and arriving passengers. Furthermore, that same weekend some 580,000 travellers came through our airport in three days, without any major problems... as is the case at most airports around the world. However, for us, it was more exciting than in other years, because, in June, we changed the airport's infrastructure from decentralised (gate) security to centralised security with huge transfer checkpoints. This move had been three years in preparation.