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On numerous occasions I've traveled to the Netherlands. Over the decades I've seen many changes take place at Schiphol. I even met the Architect who designed the latest iteration.

For a time it seemed to progressively get worse to the point where I considered Frankfurt. This was after my experience in 2014. We waited for over an hour to check our bags and then another hour for security and almost missed our flight.

Last week we came back from another trip and what a difference! Bag wait was 5 minutes and we breezed through security and passport control. We arrived at the departure gate with more than a 1-1/2 hour margin, including duty free. In fact the longest wait was at the duty-free store cashiers' counter.

I spoke with one of the people at the security checkpoint and he said they had had gone through a number of improvement stages.

The walking distances are still a challenge, but overall, a tremendous improvement.

They say that the Netherlands is "clean and well-organized".