Transit visa not required at amsterdam

11/29/2015 5:57:49 PM

Based on the information you have provided, you should NOT have been denied boarding of your flight. You’ve stated that :

You had no plans to exit the airside part of the airport in Amsterdam, and as you were traveling with carry-on bags only there would have been no need to do so.

You had and showed the flight information for your connecting flight to the TK staff in Istanbul.

Your connecting flight departed the next day, but this was only ~16 hours later.

Additional facts that you haven’t explicitly mentioned is that there is only one flight from AMS to Quito per day, being the one that you were booked on.

The Netherlands allows an Indian citizen to Transit Without Visa (TWOV) in the conditions that you’ve described above.

Timatic, which is generally the source that airlines use for visa requirements, states that :

TWOV (Transit Without Visa): Visa required, except for Holders of
onward tickets transiting by the same or first connecting aircraft:

As you were transiting on the first connecting aircraft, you meet the exception and thus do not require a visa.

I suspect that the date difference confused the staff – the fact you were arriving into Amsterdam on one day and not departing until the next day is not allowed in some airport – however in Amsterdam is it, and there are even 2 airside hotels that you could have spent the night at without entering the country.

11/30/2015 9:14:48 AM

You have made significant changes to your question since it was originally posted. In light of that new information:

Without checked baggage, you could have transited airside in Amsterdam. However, Turkish Airlines staff in Istanbul would have no way to know that you were planning to transit AMS and go elsewhere, unless you explicitly informed them. Since you say you did inform the staff of your other flight, I think this was a mistake and you should not have been denied boarding.

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