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Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside

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Re: Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside

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Post by wantsanagent »

k8sToGo wrote: post #19
wantsanagent wrote: post #18

Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

Schipol is quite a famous airport, though.

I only learned about it last week because I was considering a trip to Amsterdam. But I'm also happy to have "airport" added to "JFK" "ORD" or "SFO" which strike me as obviously airports.

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Post by ghaff »

Symbiote wrote: post #17
bobthepanda wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s a nice large European airport? I feel like I’ve heard terrible things of all of them, like LHR and CDG.

I like Heathrow when travelling to or from London. It's huge, but there's public transport to each terminal, a reasonable selection of restaurants and generally somewhere to sit. It's fairly quiet. Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun. CDG I find confusing.

>Changing between terminals at Heathrow is much less fun.

I decided to stay at a Heathrow airport hotel a while back. Turned out I had to change terminals and I'm pretty sure it took me at least as long as getting a shuttle bus to one of the hotels would have taken.

You often have to walk quite a ways too.

Overall though Heathrow is pretty good among the large European airports.

Re: Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside

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Post by rf15 »

davidkuennen wrote: post #2

I was flying to Schiphol on Monday and use that airport as my favorite for long-haul flights, even though I'm from Germany. It's a really nice airport.

Whenever I travel in a group through Shiphol, at least one piece of luggage gets missing every time. Yes, they manage to get it back to you eventually (although I did lose an expensive pair of running shoes there), but the amount of hoops you have to jump through at times is complete madness. After ten years of going over Shiphol 1-2 per year, I'm now at a point where I just try to find a route around it.

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Post by Sirizarry »

k8sToGo wrote: post #19
wantsanagent wrote: post #18

Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

Schipol is quite a famous airport, though.

Never heard of schipol. I’m sure there are many things I think are very famous that you’ve never heard of as well. World is big yadda yadda I think two words to explain what a schipol was would be nice is all

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Post by isodev »

wantsanagent wrote: post #18

Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

It's literally Amsterdam Airport? I don't think it needs clarification. It's like saying "JFK/Heathrow/LAX conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside"

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Post by afavour »

isodev wrote: post #25
wantsanagent wrote: post #18

Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

It's literally Amsterdam Airport? I don't think it needs clarification. It's like saying "JFK/Heathrow/LAX conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside"

I think OP is saying people don't know that. Like, similarly, someone might say "What is JFK?" in your example.

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Post by dcminter »

peterpost2 wrote: post #14
ginko wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copenhagen is quite nice.

I would argue that's the only nice airport in Scandinavia even! Would say the worst layout on an airport i've ever seen is Stockholm Arlanda.

Copenhagen airport is my favourite too - note however that Arlanda T5 is being expanded at the moment and it seems like it will be a lot nicer when they're finished. The security stuff is already much better: no need to unpack laptops etc. from hand luggage when going through the new section. T2 is still quite sucky though!

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Post by showerst »

interestica wrote: post #7

I was at Dulles/DC and the air-side transportation was interesting: the jetbridge was also a bus. It's a "mobile lounge" and I guess a few airports have them. There's definitely something interesting when transit isn't seen as transit...but just mobile public spaces? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_lounge

These things have a high 'what might have been' future factor, but man they are annoying in practice. Because you have to wait for everyone to cram inside, it feels much slower than a train or moving walkway. They're very frustrating after a long flight when you just want to get to customs and get home.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

wantsanagent wrote: post #18

Any chance we can get the title modified to read "Schiphol airport ..." as many won't know if this is a company, a town, or what until paragraph 4 of the press release?

It's a pretty big global airport, isn't it? Maybe for freight more than passangers, but I definitely know the name and I've never been to the Netherlands.

A quick look on wikipedia says it has about the same passenger and freight numbers as JFK, though I guess that's more well known because of all the sitcoms set in New York.

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