The situation is chaotic at Amsterdam airport, mainly due to a glaring lack of security agents and baggships. This weekend, the national KLM company, associated with Air France, had to cancel more than 70 flights, and part of its traffic was confused to Rotterdam.
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Departments on the Massive Vacances of the Dutch in this season and the consequences of the health crisis due to the COVVI-19, which led to the suppression, just as massive, of workstations: it was not necessary to create A completely chaotic situation at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. In the past few days, travelers were asked to arrive four hours before takeoff and immense lines were formed at the gates of the airport during the April 30 and 1 weekend may. The firefighters sometimes had to intervene to proceed to the distribution of water and, at the end of the line, the director of operations had to call for the abolition of flights.
The national company KLM, associated with Air France, had to cancel more than 70, and part of its traffic was confused to Rotterdam. A tile for society, which knew a spectacular recovery thanks to the strong resumption of movements, and which brought together its shareholders on Monday May 2, in particular to confirm the appointment of Marjan Rinterl, ex-president of Dutch railways (NS) , at the CEO post. She succeeds Pieter Elbers.
For the management of Schiphol, it was, during the weekend, to ensure “the safety of passengers and staff,” she said. She was in reality incapable of facing an influx of travelers who are predictable given a glaring lack of security agents and baggships. It would lack 500 out of a total of 5,000 in this most important hub in Europe who, in 2019, before the pandemic, had recorded some 70 million passengers. During this week of school holidays in the Netherlands were planned 174,000 a day. 2> “French strike”
A high rate of absenteeism and the difficulty in finding replacements for the many staff members who left the company during the health crisis explain a situation which is no longer exceptional. Heathrow’s London Airport has indeed been faced with similar problems a few weeks ago, and that of Brussels-Zaventem launched a recruitment operation of 1,200 employees who collides with the traditional weakness of wages in This sector, as well as in need, for candidates, to accept very flexible schedules.
The absence, in the Netherlands, of a partial unemployment system has also accelerated employee departures during the pandemic. And those who have remained described working conditions that have become impossible. They triggered, Friday, April 23, which the daily NRC called “a French strike”. A “wild” movement, not organized by the unions, which is exceptional in the social history of the kingdom. In a few hours, 150 baggivers managed to block all the activity, which had led to a first wave of flight cancellations: a hundred for KLM, around forty for other companies. The police had finally had to cut off road access to the airport.
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