Schiphol's H-pier to be open tomorrow

[McSteve]

The first airliners to use the H-pier will be, easyJet, Thomsonfly.com, bmibaby, Jet2 and Sky Europe.

more about the H-pier can be found here
http://www.schiphol.nl/common/portlet/h ... 0750698982

[earthman]

Is it just me, or does it sound as if passengers using the H pier do not get to enter the general passenger side shopping area of the airport?

[waldova]

I guess not. It seems they will have shops in the lounge before entering the H-pier.

[earthman]

The non-shengen passengers are expected to hang around in lounge 3. It turns out that at Schiphol the non-shengen passenger area is called lounge 2 and lounge 3 (2 is between D and E piers, 3 is between E and G, now H). Lounge 1 is the shengen area (B, C, top floor of D). In short, they use the same area as all other non-shengen flights.

The shengen passengers using pier H will get their own lounge, number 4. That one is probably going to be rather small, as the main shengen area is completely on the other side of the airport.

So can anyone explain to me why it is faster to use stairs instead of airbridges? Will they use stairs both at the front and at the rear of the airplane?

[A318]

The H pier is on the side of long parking and looks very nice and modern.
Passengers are walking from/to the plains or go by bus.
It looks like CRL but then more modern and ofcourse people can visit shops and restaurants before the y enter the pier.
On the pier are not shops, restaurants and toilet areas to reduce costs.
I saw it this week passing by when I went to HRM but it looked very nice to me.

[flyingblueboy]

Donno if is faster, for sure is cheaper..

Like Henry Ford said what is not there cannot be broken.. Ryan use built in stair for the front, so the need less service from airport.. and is faster..

I still don't like saving everything policy of LCC...

[earthman]

Does anyone know whether they use two sets of stairs at the H pier, one at the front and one at the back? Otherwise I fail to see in what way it's faster to use loose stairs instead of an airbridge.

[jelger]

Otherwise I fail to see in what way it's faster to use loose stairs instead of an airbridge.

I also assume the gates without such a facility like an airbridge is cheaper...

[earthman]

I heard that the LCC already had some sort of discount, and the same discount applies to the H-pier, no extra discount due to the lack of an airbridge.

[earthman]

I just noticed that the H pier is now also used as the M pier for Schengen flights. Is there a separate lounge for the Schengen flights, or do people wait in the same lounge as those using the H pier?