Aviation Week
Helen Massy-Beresford
15 January 2025
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and the airlines that serve it, particularly KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, are still awaiting clarity on government plans to reduce airport noise for local residents by imposing a flight cap at the airport.
The Dutch government initially set out plans to cap flights at 460,000 movements per year at Schiphol, which sparked a backlash from airlines and a lengthy legal battle that eventually led to a ruling that the government would have to follow the EU’s balanced approach procedure for reducing airport noise.
As part of that, the Dutch government on Dec. 6, 2024, finally set out a new proposal to cap flights at 478,000 movements per year, a move that KLM called “incomprehensible” at the time.
The European Commission (EC) now must give its verdict on that proposal and has three months from the date of the notification by the Dutch government to do so. Taking into account the Christmas holidays, that equates to around mid-March.
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