Amsterdam airport asks airlines to cut flights to avoid chaos

AMSTERDAM –

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has requested airways to cancel flights over the weekend to keep away from chaos as a result of overcrowding at Europe’s third busiest airport, it said on Thursday.

The airport said it had taken the motion as a result of employees shortages. An unannounced strike amongst baggage handlers aggravated main delays and cancellations on the airport on April 23.

Schiphol said in an electronic mail to Reuters it had “requested airways to cut back the variety of native departing passengers this weekend by canceling bookings, and never accepting new bookings from Schiphol within the interval from 2 to eight Could.”

“That is an annoying however essential measure to cut back the variety of passengers,” it said.

The airport said it suggested vacationers to contact their airways for data on particular flights.

Schiphol was not out there for additional touch upon what number of flights could be affected.

Dutch information company ANP reported that KLM, the Dutch arm of airline Air France-KLM, anticipated to cancel a number of flights on Friday.

KLM couldn’t instantly be reached for remark late on Thursday.

(Reporting by Bart Meijer and Toby Sterling; Enhancing by Edmund Blair and Jane Merriman)