Leaving Amsterdam

I departed Amsterdam for the U.S. on May 14. Delta Airlines had only given me 65 minutes to connect from my intra-European flight. (Good grief, but my fault for not scrutinizing the itinerary before I booked.) I will say I did make the flight, but with no time for toilet, water refill or anything to eat. I did not have to do fingerprints either when arriving in or leaving Amsterdam. The machines were all covered up and they were doing things the old-fashioned way (your experience may vary!).

Not Amsterdam, but so far I haven’t done any fingerprinting type stuff exiting the EU (Amsterdam Eurostar and Zurich).

I’m still looking for a change for me with the EES process. I did the fingerprinting process entering in Brussels (both hands), did not do anything except photo entering via Budapest (although that has been my longest wait in years), and then briefly put my right hand (4 fingers) on the fingerprinting machine in Helsinki two days ago. No consistency.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Because I came in before the changes, I wasn’t fingerprinted. I just heard and experienced Amsterdam is a big chaotic mess. So hopefully we’ll get off the plane and just walk straight through within an hour and a half, and we should make the plane. Fingers crossed.

Not sure if it’s true but apparently they’re putting more staffing on transit customers so they don’t miss planes and they “don’t care “ so much about people entering the country.

I don’t think it’s fair to suggest that they don’t care about passengers whose final destination is Amsterdam/The Netherlands. Schiphol Airport is a major European hub. In order for the hub to function properly, things need to run smoothly for transit passengers. That’s why, in case of staff shortages, the passport checks of transit passengers get priority over arriving passengers.