AIRPORT TN HOLLAND

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 16

AIRPORT TN HOLLAND

Land Below Sea Level

It did hot take long for the success of Holland’s land reclamation work to be im pressed on the mind of Mr J P. Glasson, Christchurch sales superintendent for the National Airways Corporation. when he arrived there on a business trip. When he alighted at Schi phol Airport he found that he was already 16ft below sea level. “I noticed it particularly when we drove out of the airport,” said Mr Gias son. “We drove up a slope to the road, which ran along the top of a big stop-bank beside a dyke.” He said a new terminal building had just been completed there, almost in the centre of the airfield. A long tunnel was being burrowed under the airfield to give railway access to the terminal building. Mr Glasson was also impressed by Schiphol Airport’s duty-free shop—-the biggest in Europe. “You could even buy duty-free cars,” he said, “and you could make arrangements to sell them again when you returned from driving around the country.” Mr Glasson was away nearly two weeks, studying techniques and procedure at the various installations of the Dutch airline, KLM.