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The Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the busiest passenger travel hub in Netherlands, which is situated nearly about 20 minutes southwest to Amsterdam city. The airport is ideally located at the Haarlemmermeer municipality. Amsterdam Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Europe now, both terms of passenger handling and number of flights operated. There are many leading global airliner operating from this airport, offering excellent connectivity to many major international cities.
Schiphol is the basic operations hub of KLM, which is the major airliner in Netherlands. The regional subsidiaries of KLM as Cityhopper and Arkefly are also operated from this airport. The airport now serves as the European hub for Vueling and Delta Airlines. Schiphol is primarily considered as an airport city now.
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The official name of Schiphol Airport is the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, and the Dutch word for it is Luchthaven Schiphol. Apart from being the largest in Netherlands, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is also one of the major traffic hub in the entire Europe, ranked as the fourth busiest in the continent. It is also the 14th busiest in the entire world both in terms of passenger traffic as per the 2013 statistics.
The Schiphol Airport is also ranked as the 16th busiest airport now in terms of cargo tonnage. There are about 52.569 million passengers transported through Schipol Airport in 2013, which is a 3% increase steadily every year. The major competitors of the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in passenger handling count and cargo tonnage in Europe are London Heathrow Airport, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport Frankfurt Airport, and the Madrid–Barajas Airport.