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Open skies model for aviation is colliding with climate change
Dutch plans to reduce growth of Schiphol airport are a proxy for the debate over the future of the airline industry.
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The Dutch government proposed an 8 per cent cut in capacity at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, to bring it into line with national laws on noise and pollution limits.
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Peggy Hollinger
Management at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport should have been over the moon last week at news that the Dutch government was suspending plans for a substantial cut to flights from next summer on environmental grounds.
The scheme was one of the most aggressive reductions to future growth faced by any airport in normal times; the government was proposing an 8 per cent cut in capacity at the world’s third-busiest airport, in order to bring it in line with national laws on noise and pollution limits.
