KLM canceled dozens of flights to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport this weekend, following a call from the airline to reduce the number of passengers to prevent a possible influx, the airline said today. .
“On the one hand, the cancellations should help Siphol’s request to keep the procedures that can be done at the airport manageable due to the lack of staff there,” KLM said, as the airport has been full for days.
“On the other hand, these cancellations in KLM’s flight schedule help to reduce the workload of the company’s employees,” KLM said in a press release.
So far, KLM has canceled 47 flights for tomorrow Saturday and the day after Sunday. Twenty-eight return flights were canceled today.
Siphol, Europe’s busiest airport in terms of aircraft traffic in 2019, with more than 70 million passengers that year, saw those numbers collapse during the pandemic.
But with the Netherlands lifting most of the restrictions on the Covid-19 in mid-March, the number of passengers has not stopped rising.
Last Saturday, the first day of the school holidays for many young Dutch people and while the number of passengers was expected to peak, KLM baggage handlers went on strike to protest the lack of staff and the long working hours.
The chaos caused in Shiphol last Saturday was that the airport was forced to ask passengers not to go there.
Source: AMPE
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