Amsterdam airport asks airlines to cut flights to avoid chaos

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has requested airways to cancel flights over the weekend to keep away from chaos because of overcrowding at Europe’s third busiest airport, it mentioned on Thursday.

The airport mentioned it had taken the motion because of workers shortages. An unannounced strike amongst baggage handlers aggravated main delays and cancellations on the airport on April 23.

Schiphol mentioned in an e-mail to Reuters it had “requested airways to scale back the variety of native departing passengers this weekend by cancelling bookings, and never accepting new bookings from Schiphol within the interval from 2 to eight Could.”

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

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

Schiphol was not accessible 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; Modifying by Edmund Blair and Jane Merriman)