A spokesperson for Schiphol explains after reporting by NH Nieuws, amongst others, that the airport had requested for extra safety officers from safety corporations. There might be a number of the explanation why fewer folks set to work. For instance, it might be that extra safety guards known as in sick, however the spokesperson can not point out whether or not that is the case.
Resulting from employees shortages in safety and baggage dealing with, chaotic scenes have been extra frequent this 12 months at Schiphol. The previous couple of days it was considerably quieter, partly because of the measures that Schiphol had taken. At the moment, based on Schiphol, folks didn’t must queue exterior, regardless of the very fact that there have been barely extra departing vacationers than the just about 50,000 on Saturday.
Schiphol had warned on its web site earlier on Saturday that vacationers may need to attend exterior underneath the cover. That turned out to be an excessively optimistic estimate. In follow, folks additionally needed to stand exterior the roofs. The latter additionally emerges from photographs that folks have posted on social media.
“The road even begins exterior the tent. Have been in line for greater than 180 minutes! What a distress!” tweeted an indignant traveler, for instance, with photographs of enormous throngs of individuals in and in entrance of the airport. Somebody additionally posted a photograph of a whole lot of suitcases left behind, with the caption “You might be ashamed of your self”. The suitcase downside has been happening for a while, however Schiphol has not supplied figures about what number of orphaned suitcases it issues in latest weeks.
