– NH News – In cooperation with NH News —- NOS News•today, 20:24 — In the near future, the Icelandair airline will send two of its own baggage employees on flights from Iceland to Schiphol. The company hopes that this will make flight handling at Schiphol run more smoothly. – Due to staff shortages at … Read more
All holidays that have been booked at Corendon this summer will continue, as it looks like now. This was already known for the flights that the company operates itself, but according to Corendon, this now also applies to those who have booked their holiday with the tour operator, but fly to their destination with, for … Read more
Airline Transavia must give passengers their money back on canceled flights, offer a flight on the same day or let them choose at which other time they want to fly, says the airline. Consumers Association Friday. Now the options are money back or a flight after the summer and that is contrary to European rules. … Read more
Transavia is canceling 240 flights from Schiphol between 7 July and 14 August due to the restrictions imposed by the airport to prevent extreme crowds. More than thirteen thousand bookings are affected by this. A replacement flight has been found for 70 percent of the canceled flights, for example from another airport. Of the remaining … Read more
According to the FNV trade union, a wild strike has broken out among the cleaners at Schiphol. The union says that the activists are angry that not all cleaners can claim the summer bonus that Schiphol recently promised to staff because of the crowds at the airport. These include cleaners who clean aircraft. A wildcat … Read more
KLM aims to help all travelers stranded elsewhere in Europe on their way on Sunday by arranging a new flight for them. The airline does not yet dare to say whether that will work. The first victims have already flown back to the Netherlands, but work is still being done halfway through the day on … Read more
Road users, train passengers and travelers at Schiphol experienced problems on Saturday as a result of delays. Many Dutch people had to drive slowly in Germany and France due to holiday crowds, trains in the Randstad in particular were canceled due to staff shortages and queues at Schiphol were again far beyond the departure hall. … Read more
KLM will cancel fifty flights a day this weekend due to the crowds at Schiphol Airport. The airline announced this on Friday. It is not known which destinations are involved. “In order to contribute to a manageable situation at the airport and in its own operations, KLM is forced to initiate a number of actions. … Read more
Schiphol has introduced new rules for take-off and landing rights, which should ensure that fewer flights depart from Schiphol this summer. Due to these new rules, time slots of one airline will no longer be filled by another airline if they are not used. Airlines are given a slot in which an aircraft can take … Read more
Schiphol expects comparable passenger numbers towards the summer holidays as during the May holiday, when 2.6 million people traveled to and from the airport. Schiphol therefore calls on travelers to prepare well. Passenger numbers are still at a lower level than before the corona crisis, but at peak times the crowds were comparable to 2019. … Read more