The Dutch government wants to significantly reduce air traffic at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Instead of 500,000 a year, a maximum of 452,500 flights must take place next year, the cabinet announced in The Hague on Friday.
The reduction is intended to reduce noise nuisance for local residents. The government is now awaiting a response from the European Commission before taking a final decision. The planned reduction is lower than initially announced. The government had initially promised an upper limit of 440,000 flight movements. Now noise nuisance must be reduced by 15 percent instead of the originally intended 20 percent.
Fewer flights at night
Night-time air traffic must also be limited. But for the time being there should be no question of a total night closure and a ban on private planes. That was what the large airport itself had suggested. The airport regretted that not all plans would be implemented. But Schiphol applauded the reduction in the number of flights: “We fully support the premise of reducing disability for residents.”
KLM: ‘Find it incomprehensible’
KLM airline has criticized the decision. This hurts the Netherlands. “We find this incomprehensible,” the company said. The noise targets could be better achieved with new aircraft that fly ‘cleaner, quieter and more economical’.
Source: Krone
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