News / Dutch shippers up in arms as Schiphol plans to cut 60,000 flights a year

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Air freight must be made an exception to plans by the Dutch government to cut the maximum number of flights permitted at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport from 500,000 to 440,000 a year.

Dutch shippers’ council evofenedex has warned that otherwise, the cut, scheduled to begin 1 November next year, will result in a further reduction in available capacity.

Claimed to be a first for airports in terms of putting the climate before economic growth, the reduction in flights at Schiphol was announced in ...