Schiphol passport checks

[Harry Wayfarers]

I know guys have said in the previous posts that other transport systems don't check, but that is only inside Schengen

No it isn't, it is not pertinent to Schengen, it is the open borders policy of the EU, on your passport it is printed 'EUROPEAN UNION' so why should you need to show your passport to enter any country of the EU?

I think what confuses the issue is the 'island mentality' of UK.

[RAT 5]

ExxB: Apologies. You are correct; I did go through passport on departure AMS, but not departure UK.

[zed3]

RAT 5... I'm sure that when boarding the a/c in the UK you had to produce a passport (open at the info page) and boarding card for the gate agent. Whilst this is not technically a passport control, I would assume that a departure list goes to Border Control. We flew on KLM LBA to Schiphol twice last month and that was the procedure... also on the return from Schiphol.