Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has asked airlines to cancel flights over the weekend to avoid chaos due to overcrowding at Europe’s third busiest airport, it said on Thursday.
The airport said it had taken the action due to staff shortages. An unannounced strike among baggage handlers aggravated major delays and cancellations at the airport on April 23.
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Schiphol said in an email to Reuters it had “asked airlines to reduce the number of local departing passengers this weekend by cancelling bookings, and not accepting new bookings from Schiphol in the period from 2 to 8 May.”
The airport said it advised travelers to contact their airlines for information on specific flights.
Dutch news agency ANP reported that KLM, the Dutch arm of airline Air France-KLM, expected to cancel several flights on Friday.
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