This page will contain discussion groups about schiphol, as they become available.Amsterdam Schiphol AirportSchiphol (IATA: AMS, ICAO: EHAM) (municipality Haarlemmermeer) is the Netherlands' main airport. Located south of Amsterdam (52°18′31″N, 4°45′50″E), Schiphol aims to be a European mainport, competing in passenger and cargo throughput with Heathrow International Airport in London, UK, Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, France. In 2004, Schiphol ranked fourth in Europe in terms of passenger traffic with 42,541,000 passengers, behind London Heathrow (67,344,000), Paris Charles de Gaulle (51,260,000) and Frankfurt International Airport (51,098,000). Schiphol has 5 main runways, plus 1 used mainly by general aviation aircraft. The "fifth runway" (really the sixth) was completed in 2003. Plans have already been made for a seventh runway. The airport is built as one large terminal split into three large departure halls, the most recent having been completed in 1994, which converge again once airside. There are plans for further terminal expansion. Because of the intense traffic and high landing and parking fees at Schiphol, more and more holiday-carriers have moved some of their flights to smaller airports, such as Groningen, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Maastricht. KLM fleet at SchipholSchiphol is the home base of KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Martinair and Transavia. Schiphol has large shopping areas as a source of revenue and as an additional attractant to air-carrier passengers. Schiphol Plaza is the shopping center before customs, hence not only for air travellers, but also for people who just change train here, etc. There is a regular-size supermarket, Food Village, that is open until midnight seven days a week. Schiphol is the world's lowest major commercial airport. The Schiphol ATC tower, with a height of 101 m, was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991. Its base is actually 5 m below sea level. RailwayThe Dutch Railways operate a major passenger train station directly underneath the passenger terminal complex. Thalys International operates a TGV rail service between Amsterdam, Schiphol, The Hague HS, Rotterdam, Berchem Rail Station (Antwerp), Midi Rail Station (Brussels) and Gare du Nord in Paris. HistorySchiphol started early last century as a military airbase, consisting only of a few barracks and a mudpool serving as platform/runways. When civil aircraft started to make use of the field, it was often called Schiphol-les-bains. The Fokker aircraft manufacturer started a factory near Schiphol airport in 1951. Schiphol's name means "ship hole" or "ship's hell". It is part of the Haarlemmermeerpolder, which before around 1850 was a big lake. The name originally meant a part of that lake: 't Schiphol in old maps of the area. Accidents
DestinationsNOTE: These are not definite; very few airlines have a daily hall; this is based on regularity. Departure Hall 1Schiphol Airport's observation deck Air Traffic Control Towers (ATCTs) at Schiphol AirportPier B
Pier C
Departure Hall 2Pier D
Pier E
Departure Hall 3Hall F
Hall G
Hall H
Varying departure hall
This page about schiphol includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about schiphol News stories about schiphol External links for schiphol Videos for schiphol Wikis about schiphol Discussion Groups about schiphol Blogs about schiphol Images of schiphol |
|
NOTE: These are not definite; very few airlines have a daily hall; this is based on regularity. See also: Jacob Nielsen on advanced hypertext for the World Wide Web. The name originally meant a part of that lake: 't Schiphol in old maps of the area. For instance, members of the modern social software landscape such as the wiki web and nukes allow surfers to edit the web pages they visit. It is part of the Haarlemmermeerpolder, which before around 1850 was a big lake. Sometimes web services or browser manufacturers remedy these shortcomings. Schiphol's name means "ship hole" or "ship's hell". Even some hypertext features that were in early versions of HTML have been ignored by most popular webbrowsers until now, such as the link element and editable webpages. The Fokker aircraft manufacturer started a factory near Schiphol airport in 1951. Another feature lacking today are fat links. When civil aircraft started to make use of the field, it was often called Schiphol-les-bains. Earlier hypertext systems had features such as typed links, transclusion and source tracking. Schiphol started early last century as a military airbase, consisting only of a few barracks and a mudpool serving as platform/runways. HTML is the basis of a comparatively weak hypertext implementation. Thalys International operates a TGV rail service between Amsterdam, Schiphol, The Hague HS, Rotterdam, Berchem Rail Station (Antwerp), Midi Rail Station (Brussels) and Gare du Nord in Paris. However, there are a number of disadvantages, which include:. The Dutch Railways operate a major passenger train station directly underneath the passenger terminal complex. The main benefit is the ability to decorate an email with presentational attributes (bold headings etc). . Use of HTML in email is quite controversial due to a variety of issues. Its base is actually 5 m below sea level. Many of these clients include a GUI HTML editor for composing emails and a rendering engine for displaying them once received. The Schiphol ATC tower, with a height of 101 m, was the tallest in the world when constructed in 1991. Some graphical e-mail clients allow the use of a (often ill-defined) subset of HTML as a pure display language. Schiphol is the world's lowest major commercial airport. Such behaviour is discouraged due to security problems; even the most notorious offender, Internet Explorer, has mostly abandoned the practice in recent versions (as of 2005). There is a regular-size supermarket, Food Village, that is open until midnight seven days a week. Nevertheless, some web browsers do examine the contents or URL of the document and attempt to infer the file type. Schiphol Plaza is the shopping center before customs, hence not only for air travellers, but also for people who just change train here, etc. If the MIME type is not recognized as HTML, the web browser should not attempt to render the document as HTML, even if the document is prefaced with a correct Document Type Declaration. Schiphol has large shopping areas as a source of revenue and as an additional attractant to air-carrier passengers. The exactly same document sent with a HTML MIME type, or served as text/html, might get displayed since the web browser are more lenient with HTML. Schiphol is the home base of KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Martinair and Transavia. A document sent with an XHTML MIME type, or served as application/xhtml+xml, is expected to be well-formed XML and a syntax error may cause the browser to fail to render the document. Because of the intense traffic and high landing and parking fees at Schiphol, more and more holiday-carriers have moved some of their flights to smaller airports, such as Groningen, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Maastricht. In modern browsers, the MIME type that is sent with the HTML document affects how the document is interpreted. There are plans for further terminal expansion. This vital metadata includes the MIME type (text/html for HTML 4.01 and earlier, application/xhtml+xml for XHTML 1.0 and later) and the character encoding (see Character encodings in HTML). The airport is built as one large terminal split into three large departure halls, the most recent having been completed in 1994, which converge again once airside. To allow the web browser to know how to handle the document it received, an indication of the file format of the document must be transmitted along with the document. Plans have already been made for a seventh runway. However, HTTP can be used to serve images, sound and other content in addition to HTML. The "fifth runway" (really the sixth) was completed in 2003. The World Wide Web is primarily composed of HTML documents transmitted from a web server to a web browser using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Schiphol has 5 main runways, plus 1 used mainly by general aviation aircraft. See separation of style and content. In 2004, Schiphol ranked fourth in Europe in terms of passenger traffic with 42,541,000 passengers, behind London Heathrow (67,344,000), Paris Charles de Gaulle (51,260,000) and Frankfurt International Airport (51,098,000). CSS provides a way to separate the HTML structure from the content's presentation, by keeping all code dealing with presentation defined in a CSS file. Located south of Amsterdam (52°18′31″N, 4°45′50″E), Schiphol aims to be a European mainport, competing in passenger and cargo throughput with Heathrow International Airport in London, UK, Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy, France. Some of these elements are not permitted in certain varieties of HTML, like HTML 4.01 Strict. Schiphol (IATA: AMS, ICAO: EHAM) (municipality Haarlemmermeer) is the Netherlands' main airport. Standards stress using markup which suggests the structure of the document, like headings, paragraphs, block quoted text, and tables, instead of using markup which is written for visual purposes only, like <font>, <b> (bold), and <i> (italics). Tyrolean. Efforts of the web development community have led to a new thinking in the way a web document should be written; XHTML epitomizes this effort. Sky Airlines (Antalya, Berlin Tegel). The Transitional DTD was intended to gradually phase in the changes made in the Strict DTD, while the Frameset DTD was intended for those documents which contained frames. Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford and Manchester (UK)). In addition to the Strict DTD, HTML 4.01 provides Transitional and Frameset DTDs. easyJet Switzerland (Geneva). In some cases, the presence or absence of an appropriate DTD may influence how a web browser will display the page. easyJet (Belfast, Bristol, Edinburugh, Glasgow-Int'l, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, -Stansted and -Luton). This declaration asserts that the document conforms to the Strict DTD of HTML 4.01, which is purely structural, leaving formatting to Cascading Style Sheets. bmibaby (Nottingham, Birmingham and Cardiff). For example:. Varig (Paris/CDG, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo). In order to specify which version of the HTML standard they conform to, all HTML documents should start with a Document Type Declaration (informally, a "DOCTYPE"), which makes reference to a Document Type Definition (DTD). US Airways (Philadelphia). Below are the kinds of markup element types in HTML. United Airlines (Chicago/O'Hare, Washington/Dulles). Although perhaps less common now, the shorter form is still widely supported by current software. Tunisair (Tunis). The most common extension for files containing HTML is .html, however, older operating systems, such as DOS, limit file extensions to three letters, so a .htm extension is also used. Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul). Minor editorial revisions to the HTML 4.0 specification were published as HTML 4.01. Surinam Airways (Paramaribo/Zanderij). HTML 4.0 likewise adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes, but at the same time began to try to "clean up" the standard by marking some of them as deprecated, and suggesting they not be used. Singapore Airlines (Singapore). Math support as proposed by HTML 3.0 finally came about years later with a different standard, MathML. Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi, Lahore). HTML 3.1 was never officially proposed, and the next standard proposal was HTML 3.2 (code-named "Wilbur"), which dropped the majority of the new features in HTML 3.0 and instead adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes which had been created for the Netscape and Mosaic web browsers. Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul, Izmir). Even though it was designed to be compatible with HTML 2.0, it was too complex at the time to be implemented, and when the draft expired in September 1995 work in this direction was discontinued due to lack of browser support. Martinair (Longhaul). The HTML 3.0 standard was proposed by the newly formed W3C in March 1995, and provided many new capabilities such as support for tables, text flow around figures, and the display of complex math elements. LOT (Warsaw). Work on HTML+ continued, but it never became a standard. Korean Air (Seoul/Incheon). The first formal specification was therefore given the version number 2.0 in order to distinguish it from these unofficial "standards". Israir (Tel Aviv). Work on a successor for HTML, then called "HTML+", began in late 1993, designed originally to be "A superset of HTML…which will allow a gradual rollover from the previous format of HTML". Iran Air (Tehran). That version did not include an IMG element type. Inter Express (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman). However, some people consider the initial edition provided by Tim Berners-Lee to be the definitive HTML 1.0. Fly Air (Antalya, Bodrum). There is no official standard HTML 1.0 specification because there were multiple informal HTML standards at the time. Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Rome/Fiumicino). . El Al (Tel Aviv). As such, many consider XHTML to be the "current version" of HTML, but it is a separate, parallel standard; the W3C continues to recommend the use of either XHTML 1.1, XHTML 1.0, or HTML 4.01 for web publishing. Egyptair (Cairo). XHTML, which applies the stricter rules of XML to HTML to make it easier to process and maintain, is the W3C's successor to HTML. Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York/JFK). Over time, the trend in the official standards has been to create an increasingly strict language syntax; however, browsers still continue to render pages that are far from valid HTML. Continental Airlines (Houston/Intercontinental, Newark). Web browsers commonly made assumptions about intent and proceeded with rendering of the page. Arkia (Tel Aviv). Early versions of HTML were defined with looser syntactic rules which helped its adoption by those unfamiliar with web publishing. ArkeFly (Kos, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes). Later HTML specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver). Originally defined by Tim Berners-Lee and further developed by the IETF with a simplified SGML syntax, HTML is now an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). Air Canada (Toronto). HTML is used to structure information — denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists and so on — and can be used to describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document. KLM Cargo. In computing, 'HyperText Markup Language ' (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. Royal Jordanian (Amman). potential security issues of simply rendering a complex format like HTML. Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur). potential security issues of deluding the recipient to accept an email as being from an authoritative source (such as a bank) when this is not the case; this is related to phishing scams. Georgian Airlines (Tbilsi). overuse of formatting (there was at one stage a craze for making letterheads using HTML and sending them as part of every e-mail). China Airlines (Bangkok and Taipei). This issue is made slightly worse by the fact that, for compatibility, most clients send a plaintext version as well. Armenian Airlines (Yerevan). the email has larger size because lots of formatting will be much larger than the plain text equivalent. Air Moldova (Chisinau). the recipient may not have an email client that can display HTML. Air Baltic (Riga). For example,. Adria Airways (Ljubljana). Links parts of the document to other documents. Paul, Mumbai, Seattle/Tacoma). Hypertext markup. Northwest Airlines (Boston, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. For example,. Paul, Montréal, Mumbai, Nairobi, Newark, New York/JFK, Oranjestad, Osaka/Kansai, Paramaribo/Zanderij, Philipsburg/Sint Marteen, Quito, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul/Incheon, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo/Narita, Toronto, Tripoli, Vancouver, Willemstad, Washington/Dulles). Describes the appearance of the text, regardless of its function. KLM (Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amman, Atlanta, Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago/O'Hare, Damascus, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Doha, Dubai,Guayaquil, Hong Kong, Houston/Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Kilimajaro, Kralendijk, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lima, Los Angeles, Manila, Memphis, Mexico City, Minneapolis/St. Presentational markup. Kenya Airways (Nairobi). For example,. Japan Airlines (Tokyo/Narita, Osaka/Kansai). Describes the purpose of text. EVA Air (Bangkok and Taipei). Structural markup. China Southern Airlines (Beijing and Guangzhou). (XHTML 2.0, W3C Working Draft). Ukraine International (Kiev). XHTML 1.1, published May 31, 2001. Tarom Romanian Air Transport (Bucharest). XHTML 1.0, published January 26, 2000 as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002. Martinair (Shorthaul). ISO/IEC 15445:2000 ("ISO HTML", based on HTML 4.01 Strict), published May 15, 2000 as an ISO/IEC international standard. Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest). HTML 4.01, published December 24, 1999 as a W3C Recommendation. Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius). HTML 4.0, published December 18, 1997 as a W3C Recommendation. KLM Cityhopper (Brussels, Cardiff, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hanover, Luxembourg, Manchester (UK), Munich, Nice, Zurich). HTML 3.2, published January 14, 1997 as a W3C Recommendation. Petersberg (RU), Sofia, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tbilsi, Tehran, Thessaloniki, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich). HTML 2.0, published November 1995 as IETF RFC 1866, and declared obsolete/historic by RFC 2854 in June 2000. KLM (Non-Schengen leave from one half of D, Schengen leave from the other)Aberdeen, Athens, Bahrain, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin/Tegel, Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Bucharest, Budapest, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kiev, Lisbon, London/City, London/Heathrow, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester (UK), Milan/Malpensa, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Paris/CDG, Prague, Rome/Fiumicino, Rotterdam, St. Hypertext Markup Language (First Version), published June 1993 as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working draft (not standard). Jat Airways (Belgrade). Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos). CSA Czech Airlines (Prague). Croatia Airlines (Zagreb). Bulgaria Air (Sofia). British Airways (London/Heathrow, London/Gatwick). bmi (London/Heathrow, Manchester (UK)). Armavia (Yerevan). Aeroflot (Moscow/Sheremetyevo). Aer Lingus (Dublin, Cork). Meridiana (Florence and Turin). Air France (Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Paris/CDG, Stavanger, Trondheim). KLM (some Shorthaul mostly Schengen treaty destinations). Transavia (Alicante, Antalya, Banjul, Barcelona, Berlin Shönefeld, Bodrum, Copenhagen, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Izmir, Las Palma, Madrid, Malaga, Milan Linate, Monastir, Nice, Palma, Pisa, Reus, Tenerife, Treviso). TAP Portugal (Lisbon and Porto). Spanair (Barcelona and Madrid). SAS (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm). Olympic Airlines (Athens). Maersk Air (Copenhagen, Billund). Air Dolomiti. Lufthansa (Frankfurt and Munich)
Iberia (Barcelona and Madrid). Finnair (Helsinki). Austrian Airlines (Vienna). Alitalia (Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino, Venice). The complex houses mainly drug traffickers, and was holding 350 people at the time of the incident. October 27, 2005 - a fire broke out at the airport's detention center, killing 11 people and injuring 15. |