From your schedule, it appears you'll have a stopover of nearly 15 hours at Schiphol airport.
In such cases, KLM will usually provide you a hotel with or without meals. Such hotels are located near the Schiphol airport and they also provide return transfers.
If the free hotel facility (called Stopover Passenger Complements or STPC) is not included by the airline, you'll have to make your own arrangements for the night.
Check out http://www.etaphotel.com and search for their hotel in Amsterdam. The Etap Amsterdam is located in Badhouvedorp which is near Schiphol and the hotel provides a shuttle service at a frequency of 20 minutes to and from the airport.
Whether or not you can check into this hotel will depend upon your nationality and visa. Certain nationalities are allowed visa free travel to the Netherlands.
If your nationality requires a visa to enter Netherlands, ensure that the Schengen visa you hold for your visit to Portugal is valid for at least one more entry into the European Union. If your visa does not allow you one more entry into the EU, you will have to spend the night at the departure/ transit lounge at Schiphol airport. The airline can make an exception to this rule if they are providing STPC.
Your baggage will usually be transfered directly from the airside to your Delhi-bound flight since you are flying KLM from Lisbon to Delhi.
Again, your flight from Lisbon has a flight number that appears to be of a code-share airline such as TAP Air Portugal or another carrier. In this case, you will fly on a KLM ticket as a KLM passenger but on an aircraft operated by some other airline.
Unless you are through checked-in at Lisbon, which means you are issued only one boarding card for the Lisbon-Delhi flight, you might have to undergo the hassles of collecting your baggage and checking in again for the Amsterdam-Delhi flight at Schiphol airport.
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05-28-2008, 08:19 AM
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