departure gate. Leaving this situation unchanged would have severe negative consequences. The growth in passenger numbers and the increase in security regulations are creating a need for more space, and more equipment (such as LAG scanners in the near future), at the gates and in the waiting areas. This space-consuming process at the gates impedes passenger flow and the space would be better used for other passenger services. With the increasingly intensive use of the gates at Schiphol, capacity is falling and passenger comfort diminishing. Furthermore, gate screening requires more security agents, a significant challenge when it is also becoming ever-more difficult to hire sufficient security personnel.
the near future, both due to the fact that the number of air travellers is increasing in general and because we expect that the US and Canada will become part of the one-stop security agreements in the near future.
What is going to Change? In the future, passengers transferring at Schiphol, from countries with the same level of security checks, will be led directly to the ‘sterile area’. Passengers arriving or transferring from a country with a lower level of security checks will be led to a new floor yet to be built on top of the E-, F-, and G-piers. Via this route, they will be led to the baggage reclaim area or, in the case of transfer
to the floor above to the security filter and, from there, to the terminal. In total there will be 28 gatehouses placed on the E-, F-, and G-piers. There will also be a lot of changes for passengers travelling to non-Schengen countries from Schiphol. These passengers will be passing through security filters in Departure Halls 2 & 3. Due to the limited space in both departure halls, the security filters will be placed one floor above Departure Hall 2 and, in Departure Hall 3, on a yet to be realised mezzanine above the check-in desks. Departing passengers will be allowed into the ‘sterile areas’ after having passed through the security filters.
Artist Impression - Departure Hall 3
On top of this, the implementation of one-stop security has also meant that Schiphol has needed to review its security concept. Passengers from 'clean' countries (e.g. the UK) transferring at Schiphol should not need to undergo additional security checks as they have already undergone an equivalent screening procedure in their country of origin; this is in accordance with current EU policy. We expect passenger numbers in this category to increase in
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passengers, they will be screened in one of the new transfer filters, before being allowed into the ‘sterile area’. In order for arriving passengers to be pointed in the correct direction, so-called gatehouses will be built. These will be areas connected to the passenger bridges, in which the route the passenger is supposed to follow, depending on where they have arrived from, will be determined by using two doors: one going directly to the terminal, the other
Substantial Renovation The introduction of central security will involve substantial renovation. Offices in Departure Hall 2 will be needed for the new control post and Departure Hall 3 will also require substantial reconstruction. Additionally, the piers themselves will be expanded with an extra floor on top, and an arrivals-transfer building will be built between the terminal and the G-pier. At the beginning of December 2012, preliminary steps were taken for the
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