Dutch airline KLM just lately mentioned that it might largely droop gross sales of tickets for all flights leaving from Amsterdam Schiphol airport till Monday because the airport grapples with overcrowding because of a scarcity of safety employees.
Lines at Schiphol, Europe‘s third-busiest airport, have typically stretched onto the streets in latest weeks, forcing vacationers to attend for hours to clear safety checks and inflicting many to overlook their flights.
“KLM is putting a brake on ticket sales for flights leaving up until and including Sunday because Schiphol can’t get its security problems fixed,” KLM spokesperson Gerrie Brand mentioned.
An Air France-KLM spokesperson mentioned the cope with Apollo Global Management wouldn’t end result within the buyout agency taking an fairness stake and was “purely financial”. The Air France-KLM unit concerned owns a pool of spare engines. A supply near the matter mentioned that income will probably be generated via “giving Air France access to this spare engines pool”.
Brand mentioned that the cap on ticket gross sales was wanted to accommodate those that had missed their flights because of the chaos at Schiphol. The Dutch arm of airline group Air France-KLM mentioned it might additionally supply clients with tickets for flights leaving within the subsequent three days the chance to vary their flight plans.
Schiphol on Thursday mentioned it had made plans to recruit extra safety employees earlier than the summer season holidays, whereas it might additionally work with airways to ensure higher planning of flights through the busiest weeks. The airport mentioned it was additionally in talks with unions about larger wages for safety personnel.
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