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Connecting flights – when to choose Amsterdam

Schiphol Airport, located in Amsterdam, is one of the most popular connecting airports in Europe. Find out on which routes this is the optimal airport to choose as a stop on the way.

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No matter which part of the world that you are flying to or from, when it comes to connecting flights the goal is always to make the trip as short and convenient as possible. To help you find the best possible option, at Flightroutes.com we have created guides where we present which routes go hand in hand with which connecting airport.

List of flights where Amsterdam is the fastest connection airport

Do you want to know when Amsterdam is the best option to choose as a connecting airport? In that case we recommend that you take a look at the compilation below. Here you can see all the routes where we have determined Schiphol Airport to be the best option. The routes have been chosen based on the following criteria:

  • Schiphol Airport is the fastest flight option by more than 15 minutes compared to a second option.
  • It's a connecting flight with one stop.
  • Both legs are flown by the same airline.
  • There are at least two possible connecting airports for this trip.

This list was updated on February 2025

From Manchester to Los Angeles
13 hours and 55 minutes
14 hours and 15 minutes
15 hours and 1 minutes
From New York to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
10 hours and 50 minutes
11 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 20 minutes
From Glasgow to Los Angeles
13 hours and 50 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 10 minutes
From Houston to Brussels
11 hours and 30 minutes
11 hours and 46 minutes
12 hours and 10 minutes
From Aberdeen to New York
11 hours and 30 minutes
12 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 55 minutes
From Manchester to Delhi
11 hours and 20 minutes
12 hours and 5 minutes
12 hours and 10 minutes
From Glasgow to Zurich
5 hours and 5 minutes
5 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Glasgow to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
3 hours and 40 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
6 hours and 15 minutes
From Glasgow to Copenhagen
4 hours and 45 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Glasgow to Nice
4 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
From Hanover to Lisbon
5 hours
5 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 15 minutes
From Glasgow to Hamburg
4 hours and 30 minutes
5 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Copenhagen to Johannesburg
13 hours and 10 minutes
13 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 40 minutes
From Paris to Aberdeen
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
From Glasgow to Brussels
4 hours and 20 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
5 hours and 50 minutes
From Glasgow to Dusseldorf
3 hours and 58 minutes
5 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 35 minutes
From Glasgow to Venice
4 hours and 25 minutes
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 30 minutes
From Glasgow to Stockholm
5 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
6 hours and 55 minutes
From Delhi to Dublin
13 hours and 10 minutes
13 hours and 25 minutes
13 hours and 40 minutes
From Newcastle to Atlanta
12 hours and 40 minutes
13 hours and 29 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
From Atlanta to Birmingham
12 hours and 10 minutes
13 hours and 8 minutes
From Dublin to Hanover
3 hours and 40 minutes
4 hours and 40 minutes
4 hours and 55 minutes
From Newcastle to Los Angeles
13 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours
From Lisbon to Gothenburg
5 hours
5 hours and 15 minutes
5 hours and 40 minutes
From Manchester to Hanover
3 hours and 10 minutes
4 hours and 10 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
From Sao Paulo to Brussels
13 hours and 16 minutes
14 hours and 20 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
From Glasgow to Oslo
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 50 minutes
From Aberdeen to Madrid
6 hours and 5 minutes
7 hours and 5 minutes
7 hours and 20 minutes
From Aberdeen to Boston
11 hours and 25 minutes
12 hours and 25 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
From Mexico City to Manchester
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours
14 hours and 50 minutes
From Glasgow to Houston
13 hours and 30 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
16 hours and 25 minutes
From Aberdeen to Los Angeles
13 hours and 45 minutes
15 hours
16 hours and 5 minutes
From Mexico City to Berlin
14 hours and 10 minutes
14 hours and 35 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
From Edinburgh to Hanover
3 hours and 25 minutes
4 hours and 20 minutes
5 hours and 10 minutes
From Hamburg to Glasgow
5 hours
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Mumbai to Brussels
11 hours and 5 minutes
11 hours and 25 minutes
12 hours
From Calgary to Brussels
10 hours and 35 minutes
12 hours and 14 minutes
12 hours and 40 minutes
From Luxembourg to New York
11 hours and 22 minutes
11 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours
From Birmingham to Atlanta
12 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 33 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
From Aberdeen to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
3 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 53 minutes
From Glasgow to Bologna
5 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Toronto to Nairobi
16 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 40 minutes
19 hours
From Glasgow to Helsinki
5 hours and 5 minutes
8 hours and 40 minutes
From Aberdeen to Lisbon
5 hours and 55 minutes
7 hours and 30 minutes
8 hours and 20 minutes
From Madrid to Hanover
4 hours and 23 minutes
5 hours
5 hours and 20 minutes
From Edinburgh to Cape Town
14 hours and 25 minutes
14 hours and 58 minutes
16 hours and 10 minutes
From Newcastle to Zurich
4 hours
4 hours and 50 minutes
5 hours and 10 minutes
From Aberdeen to Zurich
4 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 50 minutes
From Zurich to Nairobi
11 hours and 40 minutes
12 hours and 45 minutes
12 hours and 50 minutes
From Aberdeen to Dusseldorf
4 hours and 5 minutes
5 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
From Aberdeen to Barcelona
5 hours and 5 minutes
6 hours and 48 minutes
7 hours and 50 minutes
From Mumbai to Houston
22 hours and 10 minutes
22 hours and 50 minutes
22 hours and 52 minutes
From London to Turin
4 hours and 55 minutes
5 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours and 33 minutes
From Glasgow to Stuttgart
4 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
From Bangkok to Birmingham
15 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
16 hours and 15 minutes
From Glasgow to Warsaw
4 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 55 minutes
7 hours and 40 minutes
From Newcastle to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
3 hours and 40 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Glasgow to Hanover
3 hours and 45 minutes
4 hours and 20 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Aberdeen to Frankfurt
4 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
From Glasgow to Atlanta
13 hours and 1 minutes
14 hours and 20 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
From Glasgow to Toulouse
4 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
7 hours and 10 minutes
From Glasgow to Milan
5 hours
5 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
From Newcastle to Houston
13 hours and 20 minutes
13 hours and 50 minutes
From Nairobi to Edinburgh
13 hours and 11 minutes
13 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 30 minutes
From Aberdeen to Nice
4 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 50 minutes
8 hours and 30 minutes
From Gdansk to Brussels
3 hours and 40 minutes
4 hours and 5 minutes
From Zurich to Aberdeen
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Stockholm to Glasgow
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
7 hours and 25 minutes
From Newcastle to Brussels
3 hours and 45 minutes
4 hours
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Belfast to Copenhagen
4 hours and 20 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Nuremberg to Oslo
4 hours and 10 minutes
4 hours and 35 minutes
5 hours and 25 minutes
From London to Stavanger
4 hours and 55 minutes
5 hours and 10 minutes
5 hours and 20 minutes
From Aberdeen to Paris
5 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Nuremberg to Atlanta
13 hours and 30 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 10 minutes
From Aberdeen to Brussels
3 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
6 hours and 25 minutes
From Warsaw to Atlanta
13 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
14 hours and 40 minutes
From Bordeaux to Atlanta
13 hours and 35 minutes
13 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 10 minutes
From Aberdeen to Rome
5 hours and 5 minutes
7 hours and 25 minutes
8 hours and 45 minutes
From Atlanta to Gothenburg
12 hours and 5 minutes
13 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 40 minutes
From Belfast to Geneva
3 hours and 50 minutes
5 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Geneva to Calgary
12 hours and 20 minutes
17 hours and 21 minutes
From Edinburgh to Luxembourg
4 hours and 10 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
From Belfast to Zurich
4 hours
5 hours and 20 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
From Geneva to Buenos Aires
17 hours and 15 minutes
17 hours and 45 minutes
17 hours and 50 minutes
From Bangkok to Hanover
14 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 15 minutes
16 hours and 5 minutes
From Belfast to Helsinki
4 hours and 40 minutes
7 hours and 40 minutes
From Glasgow to Milan
5 hours
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 50 minutes
From Hamburg to Turin
4 hours and 5 minutes
5 hours
7 hours and 30 minutes
From Toronto to Hanover
10 hours and 5 minutes
10 hours and 50 minutes
10 hours and 50 minutes
From Glasgow to Athens
6 hours and 15 minutes
7 hours and 45 minutes
8 hours and 10 minutes
From Oslo to Glasgow
6 hours and 40 minutes
7 hours and 40 minutes
From Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse to Aberdeen
6 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 55 minutes
From Nairobi to Atlanta
20 hours and 31 minutes
21 hours and 40 minutes
From Houston to Hanover
11 hours and 40 minutes
13 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
From Johannesburg to Toronto
20 hours and 5 minutes
20 hours and 20 minutes
21 hours and 44 minutes
From Helsinki to Toulouse
5 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Newcastle to Stuttgart
4 hours and 5 minutes
4 hours and 53 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Helsinki to Marseille
5 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Belfast to Frankfurt
3 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
From Aberdeen to Berlin
5 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes


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