KLM angry at Schiphol transit passenger plan
09 October 2010
Schiphol airport’s plans to increase charges for transit passengers and to encourage more budget airlines like Easyjet to base there risk damaging the airport’s entire network, KLM director Peter Hartman says in Saturday’s Telegraaf.
‘Transfer traffic is the motor behind the KLM network and that means it drives the airport itself,’Hartman told the paper. Whoever does not realise that is shooting themselves in the foot, the KLM director said.
Airline sector group IATA has already written to Schiphol to protest at the plans, the Telegraaf said.
KLM accounts for some 50% of flight movements at Schiphol.
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KLM angry at Schiphol transit passenger plan
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templeball
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KLM are as cheap as easyjet if you book cleverly, (90 quid return for me this trip, same as last time), and that includes a suitcase and a travel bag and you get wide seats, free tea/coffee and cake and are treated really nicely, and takes off from heathrow so you can get to it by tube if you are a londoner
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templeball wrote:KLM are as cheap as easyjet if you book cleverly, (90 quid return for me this trip, same as last time), and that includes a suitcase and a travel bag and you get wide seats, free tea/coffee and cake and are treated really nicely, and takes off from heathrow so you can get to it by tube if you are a londoner
I booked with KLM in june & my flight was only like 95 quid all in,NO luggage charges or anything
,Ie rucksack 5 kgs & a hold case 20kgs,Ps i did check the easyjet site before i booked & there were little between them like,The same flight now with EJ is like 130 notes! + you still have to pay for baggage 
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