This sounds like an AI trying to construct a script.

@markanthony1004

2 ай бұрын

An American accent using the metric system. Not unheard of but c'mon. We ain't fancy lol yeah I think it's AI which I'm past being sick of

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

@MrStino1

7 ай бұрын

It's the same for saying Amsterdam has 800,000 people. It has, but the surrounding area has about 1,5

@dredits6658

7 ай бұрын

London is still Larger than Paris even if you include it's metropolitan population. When it was part of the EU, London was the largest urban area in the EU

@pastvz2781

7 ай бұрын

@@dredits6658 Actually it depends on the metrics. According to the OECD Paris is 500k larger, but then Eurostar says London is 2M larger. Either way, the difference is insignificant compared to the 4x difference the video implies.

@pastvz2781

7 ай бұрын

@@MrStino1 Yeah… it’s absurd. The Dutch government could hypothetically expand the Amsterdam city limits to include the whole country if they wanted to. However that wouldn’t mean the city is now suddenly 18M

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.

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...

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. :-)

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.

@letsgotoe2toe

8 ай бұрын

if we had a good rail service, people in those cities could get to the london airports within an hour. that’s a big customer base heathrow is losing out to

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

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

@claude_1c74

8 ай бұрын

You r right! Paris suburb is 12 millions people, and serve 25 millions within 1 hour driving or train connection. I think its the same with London metropolitan.

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.

@VV-mq6cq

7 ай бұрын

Exactly. De Randstad is a metropolitan area which covers (most of) the western part of the country. For the rest of the country, it depends which airport is closer. It’s sometimes more convenient to either travel to Brussels or the airports near Düsseldorf or Cologne/Bonn. The video makes it sound like Amsterdam is The Hub for The Netherlands and that’s simply not true for various reasons.

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

@lws7394

8 ай бұрын

Amsterdam is a city not a metropole. It is part of the Randstad metro area ( roughly Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht) with 8 mln people . Just like San Francisco has just 800k inhabitants , but the Bay Area 9 mln ...

@MariaRoza2011

8 ай бұрын

They forgot to mention that the agglomeration of Amsterdam is much bigger than 800k inhabitants, plus the WHOLE COUNTRY uses Schiphol airport. London has like 3? International airports..

@odzergaming

2 ай бұрын

Wait till you look at Atlanta (47k pop vs 110M passengers)

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.

@1greenMitsi

8 ай бұрын

Id live there just for the kronic weed

@Quentin-vi4zi

8 ай бұрын

Cause everyone always goes to the city centre. Whenever people I know come to visit Amsterdam, I’ll let the, visit the touristy places on their own, but give them a proper city tour myself showing all the real cool spots

@Kuricang31

8 ай бұрын

It is. Also many anti-car, pro-bike supporters all use Amsterdam as a great example of urban cycling while local Dutch citizens even despise Amsterdam as for them it severely lacks necessary bike infrastructure to the point that some German cities like Aachen are more bike-friendly than Amsterdam

@Quentin-vi4zi

8 ай бұрын

@@Kuricang31 When was the last time you cycled through Amsterdam? Yes there were some troublesome streets in the past but right now I can’t think of any dangerous spots+ it is still improving year by year

@EngBlijven

8 ай бұрын

You should live in de Bijlmer area in the South East of Amsterdam very friendly and safe area you’ll fit right in

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

@Broadvay

9 ай бұрын

Oh sorry, I thought you wouldn't mind if it was a few seconds.

@SnoopDoggyDog1

8 ай бұрын

Rude

@Suimadridmapping696

8 ай бұрын

​@@SnoopDoggyDog1.... it's true tho

@Suimadridmapping696

8 ай бұрын

idc man like hes better than u ur the one with 0 life@@torque4066

@PlaneSpottingBerlin

8 ай бұрын

@@torque4066 then i think you have no idea how my life is going.

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

@sureshmukhi2316

8 ай бұрын

Wow, that's a lot more than Dublin. For like quintuplin. 😄

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.

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.

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..

@noob.168

9 ай бұрын

These "educational" youtubers are only good for entertainment purposes at best. I usually just watch em for their opinions rather than facts. Unfortunately, even channels like Wendover, RealLifeLore, Johnny Harris, etc often post false info.

@480darkshadow

8 ай бұрын

@@noob.168why are you watching them then. Read aviation monthly instead, much better sources and editorials

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.

@tylerxic3241

9 ай бұрын

London, United Kingdom - 19.6 million visitors yearly. Paris, France - 19.1 million visitors yearly. Istanbul, Turkey-14.7 million visitors yearly. Rome, Italy-10.3 million visitors yearly. London is first.

@PandaCZparodies

8 ай бұрын

#1 is in the top 5

@LucasdeBlock

8 ай бұрын

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.

@claude_1c74

8 ай бұрын

@@tylerxic3241 In 2022 Paris - 44,1 millions visitors; London - 16,1 millions; Majorque - 11,4 millions; Barcelone - 10,7 millions; Berlin - 10,4 millions .

@HusseinDoha

8 ай бұрын

@@tylerxic3241Spain is second after France which it inflates their numbers by adding those who transport through it

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

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.

@MySiva89

8 ай бұрын

Good to hear such small real life stories😀

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

@Samguy55

9 ай бұрын

Dubai doesn’t have much competition as the other airport isn’t a busy airport

@antonisantoraharjo7106

9 ай бұрын

@@Samguy55AUH is pretty busy though and could even be reached by car within an hour or even less from DXB. Emirates is just a stronger player in the UAE compared to Etihad. If you zoom out even further, DOH is also very close by and growing significantly.

@noob.168

9 ай бұрын

NYC busier? which one? LMAO

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

@tobyk.4911

8 ай бұрын

also, with good railway and highway connections to western Germany, you can add several million Germans as potential passengers.

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

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 :)

@johniii8147

9 ай бұрын

Yeah shrinking the traffic at AMS doesn't really make sense.

@georghuppertz5727

8 ай бұрын

You can shrink Schiphol if you take out the many flights to Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, etc. These flights mere exist to fill other planes and are perfectly replaceable by a train.

@szabopal85

8 ай бұрын

​@georghuppertz5727 as a flight traveler I am not sure I would like to travel by train instead of plane to catch another flight.... if there is a delay with the train I would miss the second flight without any compensation, if the first flight is delayed the airline simply rebook my second flight, i do not want the inconviniences of carrying 3 luggage from train station to airport, stress about waiting time at luggage drop off and securitiy check lines at an airport I do not know well etc etc.... i do agree that trains should replace flights everywhere where it is reasonable but combining longer train trips with flights can work only if the train trip is also covered by the same airline as the flight before/ after to achieve similar level of comfort and I do not think that this will happen anytime soon

@Kuricang31

8 ай бұрын

Maybe the government needed to learn from the UK government about the dire consequences of limiting air traffic at Heathrow, which only causes traffic nightmares both in the sky and land

@johniii8147

8 ай бұрын

@@Kuricang31 Yeah the train to plane thing is really only going to work if their is a baggage drop at the train station and check in.

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht together are the Randstad region (with many other towns in between them). The Randstad as a whole is the biggest megalopolis of Europe and the economical heart of the Netherlands, with more than 8 million inhabitants. Schiphol Airport is right in the middle of The Randstad. You should see the Randstad as one large city, with excellent rail connections and infrastructure.... often someone lives in one city within the Randstad and works in another. Commuting is fast and easy.

A lot of people in the south and east of the country use Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf airport and so on. Even with public transport sometimes.

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

Northern Netherlands does have a minor airport which served some destinations, and still do to summer destinations. But as stated Schiphol is still the main airport. Also Schiphol serves as a major transfer hub for trans continental flights. A lot of flights from the North America connect to flights to Africa and the Western Asia, and vice-versa of course.

@gijs_k3737

8 ай бұрын

That airport is extremely small and is a money pit. The aiport is simply not viable and it is not likely that it ever will be. Seeing enviromental regulations i would not be surprised it will be closed soon.

@ZerocasGaming

8 ай бұрын

There is Also another one Den Helder but its for the navy and helikopters to offshore platforms

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

@giths19

8 ай бұрын

I think you missed the part she said 17.5million depend on it.

Great Video! But in Correction London has 10 million people living now

Eindhoven hqs connection to some Tourist destination outside Europe and i fly from there to UK regular basis... But yes schipol is more comfortable and has more connections 😊

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

@giths19

8 ай бұрын

She didnt say Schiphol is busier than Heathrow she explained why a small city has the 4th busiest airport in Europe

@Kuricang31

8 ай бұрын

There are only 3 airports that serve London (in this sense Greater London) actually. The other 3 other airports are fake as they are all painfully far from London itself Worst of all is London Ashford which is much closer to Calais (FRA) than London itself

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

You forgot about the Maastricht Aachen Airport in the south :)

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.

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.

Hey, you said there are only 3 airports in The Netherlands. Maastricht and Groningen have also holiday flights from companys as Tui and Corendon.

@arnoldpalthe3915

5 күн бұрын

You should name them all: Maastricht (shared between D and NL), Eindhoven and Eelde (near Groningen)

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

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

@OllieV__nl

27 күн бұрын

Fries land

@FG-cc3qk

27 күн бұрын

​@@OllieV__nl😢😂😅😢

Daily flights is around 1370, not 800. There s non stop flights coming in and going out on multiple runways, it’s crazy

@mavadelo

8 ай бұрын

That number is expected but is not always reached. According to Schiphol numbers are at about 92% compared to 2019 (search Schiphol, vooruitblik vliegverkeer or A look ahead at air traffic for regular updates on the numbers, generally bi-weekly)

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.

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.

@hageneesje

8 ай бұрын

Schiphol is the closest airport to me. So i have no other choice.

@Kuricang31

8 ай бұрын

Wait till you fly in-and-out of Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle. Schiphol Airport is much better and more comfortable than those 2 hellish nightmares!

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

The map doesn’t show all the London airports, Heathrow, Gatwick, City, Stanstead and Luton. That’s a significant factor in the South East of England. However as many long distance flights go from Heathrow thats often the option for many UK travelers. But Heathrow has poor public transport access. There’s no direct access by rail other than from the capital. And that is what Schiphol gets right with its rail connections. And that why people outside of London often connect on KLM City Hopper to Schiphol. It’s quicker and cheaper than UK rail. Much as i like the single terminal concept at Schiphol there has to be limitations to its growth. There is already a lack of gates with many short haul KLM flights going from the Fokker Farm. Although KLM manage it reasonably well, it’s hardly ideal.

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 😅

@brittariedel3446

10 күн бұрын

A lot of Germans also fly from Amsterdam because it has more transatlantic flights than the Düsseldorf airport in the far West of Germany. And it is easter to get to than Munich or Frankfurt from the Düsseldorf, Rhine and Ruhr region....

Why do you exclude Istanbul?

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

Not everything you said in this video is correct. The Netherlands has 5 commercial airport which serve passenger aircraft. One of them is actually in Groningen/Drenthe, called Groningen Eelde Airport. But since Amsterdam Schiphol has most intercontinental flights for the Netherlands, it serves as the intercontinental hub. All the other airports do have international flights (not domestic flights as you had called them) to other destinations in Europe, mainly served by low-budget airlines such as Transavia, Ryanair and Easyjet, but also by charter airlines such as TUI and Corendon.

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.

Few things you forget, First Schiphol Group is the owner of lelystad ( pretty small ) eindhoven rotterdam maastricht and Groningen

@SubToKwiebus

8 ай бұрын

AMS is a hub between North America and europe

@SubToKwiebus

8 ай бұрын

KLM co owner in achiphol group is the only airline in europe to fly to taiwan (KLM aisa) and china (klm)

@SubToKwiebus

8 ай бұрын

Klm also is 1 of the only airlines who fly to smaller places like vienna

Most important thing is missing: the excellent rail connection

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

@Micg51

8 ай бұрын

Measuring cities by city proper is such a bad way to measure population

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

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

I live i Houston. When i travel to the UK , i go via AMS; ust to avoid Heathrow.

It is because of connecting flights....very few people are disembarking at Amsterdam

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

Just unfortinate that theyre reducing it because a few people have to complain while theyre living next to the airport themselves.

That railroad map at 2.50 has a lot of missing lines

4:23 Drenthe have Groningen airport Eelde and is in the north of the Netherlands

the case with Berlin Airport dates back with Germany being divided for 40 years.

Why excluding Istanbul?

I would not say it is easier to get to other Euopean Cities from Schipol airport. Maybe Brussel that about it.

Well the Netherlands has more airports: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Lelystad (only for tiny planes), Rotterdam, and some more

Most people that live like 30kilometres away from the German border will just go to Düsseldorf or Köln Airport in Germany

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

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

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

@user-vp5fm3yc2l

17 күн бұрын

The intramuros figure is probably correct, but since the Greater London figure was mentioned the same should be done for Paris (10.8 m in that case)

Eelde still exists too...

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

So basically Amsterdam Schipol is just a bigger Tirana Rinas

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

LHR need 1 more runway to conquer the AMS

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

"The North of the Netherlands doesn't have a commercial airport". Am sorry to say, but you're forgetting Groningen-Eelde Airport

The narrator ruined it for me

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

super underatted!

@michaelrmurphy2734

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, Amsterdam is a great city with a real small town feel.

From Rotterdam airport you can fly to the Maghreb countries

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.

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 :)

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

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

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

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has far fewer passengers than Heathrow(pre-pandemic), let alone all the other London airports included

@chipdale490

4 ай бұрын

Yes. So?

Im pronouncing schiphol wrong until i found this video

Don't forget to MIND YOUR STEP 😊😊😊😊

Please change the narrator 🙏

Nobody flies domestic in Netherlands

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

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.

Dont forget about Flevoland airport

@chipdale490

4 ай бұрын

LEY is effectively just a General Aviation airport with ATC service. Not served by any airline.

Eindhoven Airport does fly outside of Europe…. So that’s incorrect (it flys to Morocco for example)

@Maartentenerife

8 ай бұрын

Last time I checked it was in Africa

Why exclude Istanbul? bizarre .......

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