202 1 Transfer Regulation of Amsterdam, Netherlands

First of all, for KLM, your end of the tour is in Amsterdam, and the airline has the obligation to ensure that passengers arrive in end of the tour with valid travel documents. This check is usually done when changing boarding passes and boarding. And if you don't have a Dutch visa, KLM may not let you on the plane.

Secondly, you can't enter the Netherlands without a Dutch visa or a Schengen visa. In other words, even if you successfully board the plane to Amsterdam, you may not be able to get your boarding pass and transfer your luggage directly to Cathay Pacific's plane, because there is no Cathay Pacific counter when you leave Glasgow. That is to say, in Amsterdam, you have to bring your own luggage and go through customs to get it?

You'd better get a Schengen visa if you have time. If you really don't have time, you'd better contact KLM in advance to make sure you can get on at least the first flight, and then go to Amsterdam airport to find the service desk or Cathay Pacific customer service to help solve this problem. It may be necessary to spend the night at the airport, but the luggage should be transshipped.

I changed planes from Amsterdam many times when I was in England. I have a British visa, but Britain is not a Schengen country, so a British visa cannot enter the Schengen country. As long as it is a joint ticket, the destination of the ticket is the country with a visa. But you can't leave the airport in Amsterdam. 20 10 during the eruption of Iceland volcano in April, many of my classmates with British visas were trapped at Amsterdam airport. Later, because the plane was cancelled all the time, the customs issued a one-day visa to leave the airport by boat.

Later, I went to live in Holland and often changed planes from Russia. (Dutch visa, no Russian visa)

So you don't need a visa to transfer. But it must be the destination country where you have a visa. The main hubs of France-Netherlands Alliance in Europe are CDG Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Compared with CDG, Schiphol Airport is much smaller, but its size does not affect it to become one of the best airports in the world. Schiphol's efficiency is world-famous, and the shortest transit time for international flights can reach 45 minutes. Because of the small area, restaurants and hotels are easy to find, unlike other big airports, which take half an hour to change a terminal. Personally, I think Amsterdam Airport and Munich Airport are the smoothest connecting flights in Europe.

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Speaking of transit visas, generally speaking, if the visa does not meet the requirements, the first paragraph will not let people board the plane and will not give people the opportunity to go to the border crossing point at all. For example, if you buy a trip from Beijing to Los Angeles to Mexico, it is impossible to board a plane in Beijing without an American visa.

China people don't need a transit visa to transfer to other countries or even Africa through Amsterdam. Depends on your situation. Since you have an American visa, you want to go back to China. As long as you don't leave the airport, the Dutch airport has no reason to embarrass you and worry about you.