Situated in Haarlemmermeer, the Amsterdam airport is about 17.5 km on the Southwest side of the city. The IATA and ICAO code of this Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is AMS and EHAM. As with most European airports, even this started as a military airport in 1916 and has been voted the best airport in the world a number of times. This airport has seen some crashes; in 1946 a KLM operated flight hit the ground killing all 26 onboard. In 1992, 1994, and 2005 there were mishaps causing human casualties in each of these.

A little more than 4 million passengers were handled in 2007 by this airport that has five runways. The sixth runway is used for general aviation aircraft and there is another one under construction. Owned by Schiphol group, everything is under a single terminal. Royal Jordanian, Swiss International Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways are some that operate from this airport. It is the base of KLM, Transavia, and Martinair.

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