patmike

Thanks for your suggestions.......with pricing in mind it ended up being cheaper to stay the extra day and fly home using miles!

There are actually NO afternoon flights that arrive stateside at a decent hour.  Guess we are a bit picky - don't want multiple stops nor another overnight flight.  

3 hours ago, Globaliser said:

 

Well, that was then.

  

 

Why does it have to be around noon? Even last time, if you hadn't been trying to make an early flight you wouldn't have had nearly so much trouble at Schiphol; the main bottlenecks tended to be in the morning. As Zach1213 suggested, simply taking a later flight would solve many of the issues. You wouldn't have had to delay your travel by a whole day.

We are disembarking a cruise ship and we are older.....the concern is that the flight times offered are 10:50 or earlier.  That doesn't allow much time.

2 hours ago, Zach1213 said:

 

I don't love AMS as much as some people, but it's definitely not crazy. It's fairly easy as far as a major hub airport goes. Yes, there were some issues but those have been resolved. The few times I have flown out of AMS in the last year have been just fine. 

 

If you're flying back to ATL, may I recommend looking at the 5pm KLM flight? Gives you an opportunity to have a leisurely morning, maybe even do some stuff in Amsterdam or another city nearby, and still make it home for a reasonable bedtime (arrives in to ATL at like 8:30pm-ish, I believe). 

Our last experience at Schipol was in May 2022 - it took several hours to clear security, etc. and then get to our plane. We are disembarking a ship and finding flights that leave around noon has been a chore.  Finally decided to spend a day/night in AMS and fly out the following day.  Less anxiety.....

Shopping for flights and need to know what is a reasoable time to fly out of Amsterdam.  Know that the airport is crazy.......

How to handle this when allowed a short time from ship to airport?