Amsterdam Schiphol Int.l Airport ( AMS - EHAM ) Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (IATA: AMS, ICAO: EHAM) is the Netherlands main international airport, located 20 minutes southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The airport's official English name, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, places the words in the Dutch order (Luchthaven Schiphol) instead of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The airport used to have the IATA code of SPL, which has fallen into disuse and has been replaced by AMS. Schiphol is an important European airport, ranking as Europe's 3rd largest and the world's 14th largest for cargo tonnage. It also ranks as the world's 3rd largest by international passenger traffic as well as Europe's 5th and the world's 14th busiest by overall passenger volume. Additionally, Schiphol ranks as Europe's 5th and the world's 17th busiest airport by number of flights, handling 446569 traffic movements in 2008, a 1.7% drop on 2007. Schiphol's main competitors as in passenger and cargo throughput with London Heathrow Airport, Frankfurt Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Madrid-Barajas Airport. In 2007, Schiphol handled 47430019 passengers in 2008, 0.8% down on 2007, ranking it fifth in Europe behind London, Paris, Frankfurt and Madrid. There are 188 loading slots in the whole airport. About 68% of the passenger flights were to Europe, almost 21% of its passengers travelled on intercontinental flights and 11% to Asia; cargo was mainly headed to Asia (44%) and North America (20%). In the same year, Schiphol ...



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