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A group of air­lines is plan­ning to sue the Dutch gov­ern­ment for Schiphol airport.

 

KLM airplane
A group of air­lines is plan­ning to sue the Dutch gov­ern­ment for cut­ting flights at Ams­ter­dam’s Schiphol air­port in a push­back against efforts to reduce the industry’s pol­lu­tion and noise levels. He called on the gov­ern­ment to work with air­lines «to meet noise and emis­sions reduc­tion goals while restor­ing employ­ment». They said the gov­ern­ment’s «uni­lat­eral and sud­den» decision to cut Schiphol’s capa­city from 500,000 to 460,000 annual flights was «incom­pre­hens­ible». Air­lines had already made «mult­i­bil­lion euros invest­ments» in redu­cing car­bon emis­sions, they said, adding that the gov­ern­ment had not con­sidered «altern­at­ive work­able solu­tions to effect noise reduc­tion».

KLM Group, which includes KLM, KLM City­hop­per, Mar­tin­air and Transavia, accounts for nearly 60 per cent of traffic at Schiphol, which handled more than 52mn pas­sen­gers in 2022. Royal Schiphol Group, the air­port oper­ator, is major­ity owned by the Dutch state and announced the decision last month. The Dutch gov­ern­ment said its long­stand­ing prac­tice of not enfor­cing noise and pol­lu­tion lim­its had to end because of the legal rights of people liv­ing close to the air­port.

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  1. Cory4 March 2023 at 12:09

    I agree that reducing the number of annual flights suddenly is not a good idea at all, especially since airlines have already shown they are committed to reducing carbon emissions. We can't just reduce carbon emissions out of thin air, in 2 days. It will take some time and drastic decisions are not helpful in the least.

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    1. Mike Peters4 March 2023 at 13:45

      They are right to sue the government who made a huge error in this case. They can't just decide what goes and stays like this. I wasn't expecting this to happen in Holland. Sounds more like something that would happen in a 3rd world country.

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