It took us nearly 18 hours to get from Amsterdam to Risoul. With something like 30 students and 6 teachers, I traveled to the little skiing village in the French Alps by bus. I couldn't get any sleep, so the trip was long and exhausting. Around 9 o'clock in the morning we finally arrived at Risoul, I (and I think most of us did) felt broken.
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Today, ten weeks after I began my internship at the KLM, I had my last working day at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The only thing that's left to do is a one hour chat with the trainers tomorrow, to finish the internship officially. Yesterday we all went to the Operations Control Center of the KLM, which controls all worldwide activities of the KLM. I've been watching there for a couple of hours, after which
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It have been pretty impressive and draining weeks since I started my internship at the KLM. It's hard to imagine that it has already been eight weeks, and now I have two weeks left until I go to college again. Now the end is coming, I see that our ability to work almost completely independent at the ramp is making progress. In the beginning we just did what the supervisor told us, now all of the trainees know how to work following the procedures.
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Since last week the trainees at the KLM get an activity every Wednesday to learn more about what other departments do within the aircraft handling process. I went to the push back department of the KLM which tows aircraft to parking and pushes them back from the gate to the taxiway. I arrived there at 6 am in the morning to conduct with two colleagues of that department.
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