News / Freighter operator hopes for local rule at Schiphol Airport are dashed

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Freighter operators’ hopes of securing more slots at Schiphol have been dashed following a government ruling against the introduction of the ‘local rule’.

But the cargo community is now working on a new solution to help freighter operators at the slot-constrained airport.

Infrastructure minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen said she could not greenlight the rule as there was a chance it would make the airport exceed the maximum number of flights permitted: set at 500,000 until 2020.

“The fact that slots are allocated on ...