Schiphol

Proper noun

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Schiphol

An international airport in North Holland, Netherlands, serving the city of Amsterdam, and the main international airport of the Netherlands.

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A major hub for pharmaceutical products, Schiphol has already handled some of the vaccines being used in trials and KLM's boss is confident its "cold chain" operations will cope with the influx of cargos as mass inoculations start in earnest. Source: Internet

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol ( IATA : AMS, ICAO : EHAM) is less than 20 minutes by train from Amsterdam Centraal railway station and is served by domestic and international intercity trains, such as Thalys and Intercity Brussel. Source: Internet

By 1940, Schiphol had four asphalt runways at 45-degree angles. Source: Internet

At one time KLM had its head office on the grounds of Schiphol Airport. Source: Internet

De Telegraaf 17 July 1935, cited in Heijn (1969) *On 2 June 1939, KLM DC-2 (PH-AKN, "Nachtegaal") crashed at Schiphol Airport during a single-engine training flight, killing one person on the ground; all four crew survived. Source: Internet

In the Netherlands the same storm, Ciara, led to around 200 flights to and from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, one of Europe's largest, to be axed or delayed as it blew in off the Atlantic. Source: Internet

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