Originally Posted by
xliioper
The Dutch sure love taxes. Apparently, Amsterdam is raising taxes on tourists spending the night there. It's like the highest in the world. It's like as if they don't want AMS to be a global hub, screw over KL, and harm their tourism industry.
Originally Posted by
robert4travels
Just to be sure, the reduction in landing slots at AMS is mainly for noise pollution for the people living around the airport. Less air pollution is secondary.
But especially the Dutch government is shooting KLM in the foot. They get less slots at AMS and a possible punitive reduction of slots in the US.
It’s only fair that the US retaliate since B6 will be banned from flying to AMS. The easiest way to resolve this is to force KL to give up some slots to B6. That still doesn't change the fact that KL and ST will be screwed with the cap.