Amsterdam Airport and proposed cancellations July and August 2022

[stanleycamel]

Following on from the reports that LHR and LGW have instructed airlines to reduce their schedules by 10% if anyone has a flight through or originating in AMS please check your booking. In recent weeks AMS has had horrendous problems with queues and it isn't getting any easier so the ACNL (Airport Coordinator Netherlands) have taken steps to try to control the problem.

Schipol Airport announced "If fewer travellers can fly on any given day, the independent slot coordinator (ACNL) will determine distribution, and airlines will decide how to tackle that. They will do everything they can to keep consequences for travellers to a minimum,”

"ACNL will book as many passengers as possible, reschedule flights to other airports and stop selling seats. However, some flights will still have to be cancelled anyway.

The statement also stressed that it is not yet known how many flights will be affected by this measure, adding that in the weeks in July, there are 135000 seats per day on average, which is too much for the existing security personnel to deal with."

So everything is still not clear as to cancellations, amendments etc but if you have for example a trip from the UK on KLM via AMS to the US or beyond then be aware of possible changes.

[Aimee_K]

I do feel for those travelling through the summer months.
We're flying into AMS from Cardiff with a connecting flight to JFK late October so fingers crossed it's all sorted by then.

[stanleycamel]

The Dutch Government then proceeded to announce on the 27 June that they were cutting the number of flights using Amsterdam in 2023 by 20%.