KLM criticizes the government's calculation model for Schiphol downsizing plans

The airline KLM has significant issues with the calculation model used by the Cabinet for a decision about reducing the nuisance caused by Schiphol. The model is leading the government into believing that shrinkage is the right way to go, while KLM thinks this is unnecessary, Marjan Rintel, the Airline’s CEO wrote to the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Barry Madlener. “The government is reportedly on the verge of making a significant decision that could have unnecessarily large negative consequences for the future of Schiphol, for KLM, and for the connectivity of the Netherlands with the rest of the world,” Rintel wrote. KLM thinks that the Cabinet is not following the so-called “Balanced Approach.” That procedure states that the government can only push for a reduction of flights when other less drastic measures have had an insufficient effect in the attempts to lower the nuisance.