The low-cost airline Transavia alone has to cancel around 200 flights from Amsterdam-Schiphol. The background is that the government of the Netherlands has decided that the capacity has to be reduced due to the acute shortage of staff.

KLM and other carriers will also have to reduce their Schiphol offer planned for summer 2022. Many passengers are currently receiving notifications from their airlines that the flights booked for July and August 2022 will not take place as originally planned. The procedure of the carriers is different.

Transavia boss Marcel de Nooijer explains, among other things: “There is a group that is the victim of this reduction in capacity. That hurts. This is a great loss for our passengers and for our company. The forced reduction in passenger numbers is highly undesirable and must be one-off and short-lived."

Olivier Jankovec, Director General of the airport association ACI Europe says, among other things: “Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is in many ways what makes the Netherlands bigger than it is. From this point of view, there is no doubt that the government's decision to significantly reduce the airport's capacity will make the Netherlands smaller".